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This is the big moment, where Loki, who is not bound to remain outside of Cassarobia, comes to Venus’ aid, despite their past enmity. It’s a weird choice, in that it’s not done to draw particular attention to that moment (or, if it is, the moments selected seem arbitrary). That said, any comic book is only worth what somebody will pay you for it, so let the buyer beware!Īll throughout this story, Roth typically has one panel on each page that’s askew, as though it was knocked out of alignment with the rest of the page. Roth’s forte was pretty girls, so he was a natural to be brought into service on VENUS.Īs with the earlier Loki appearance, this book has occasionally been listed by dealers as the first appearance of Thor, or as a “Thor prototype.” This is pretty well nonsense, as there’s nothing linking the Thor who shows up briefly in this adventure to the later Marvel super hero apart from the fact that they both drew on the same mythology. But the artwork was produced by Werner Roth, who would continue to work into the field well into the Marvel revolution a decade later, where he’d do a long stint on X-MEN among other things. The author of this story, like so many of those of the Golden Age, is not know. And that’s who shows up partway through this strange adventure in VENUS #12. Well, where Loki goes, Thor is sure to follow shortly behind. This is how Venus wound up battling Loki, the Prince of Evil, a few issues earlier, as we covered before (and which you can access at the link below.) despite coming from an entirely different pantheon of Gods.

So they wound up mixing and matching their mythological players from across all of the various pantheons. The writers and artists on VENUS either didn’t have all that good a grasp on actual mythology, or else they simply didn’t care, figuring that the young audience for comic books at that time wouldn’t be bothered about it anyway. And along teh way, it featured the premiere of a couple of characters who had greater things waiting for them in the future. It was all over the map, and that’s part of the appeal of it. It was a bizarre mix of girlie humor comic (in the manner of MILLIE THE MODEL), fantasy adventure, super hero romp, and it eventually took a sharp swing into supernatural horror by the end of the run. It concerned the Roman goddess Venus coming to Earth and falling in love with the publisher of a women’s magazine, BEAUTY, and becoming its editor.

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It’s fun to learn how Marvel might reverse-engineer its way to an ending, knowing where they want their lead characters to be as they wait for their next appearance, without being 100% sure how to get them there.As we spoke about a week or two back, VENUS was a strangely schizophrenic title published by Marvel/Timely in the 1940s and early 1950s.

There were many different versions of, ‘Does Gorr always make the choice? Does his heart kind of betray him? Does he go to the very last minute, “No I want the gods to die,” but because Eternity grants your deepest desire, it’s his daughter that’s brought back?’ There were a lot of different versions of how she came into being, but her coming into being and that being what is brought forward from Eternity was always the end goal.

There were many different versions of that final scene. Gorr was always going to bring his daughter back into existence.

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