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Star Reach #1 (1974)

Science Addiction: Star Reach #1 (1974)


Sometimes finding the long lost early works of a respected artist can throw one for a loop and blow them away. Such is the case of what happened when I first read Star Reach #1. Star Reach was an independent anthology comic book that wasn't easily found among the comic racks in department and convenience stores at the time. This was the type of book you had to mail order or subscribe for, or if you were the type, might have found in a head shop. It contained dark subject matter featuring sex and drugs within sci-fi and fantasy realms.

The importance of the first issue however is thanks to Jim Starlin (the creator of freakin' Thanos mind you, as well as many others), who back then had yet to emerge into the 'star' he is today. Starlin provided not one, but two beautiful-yet haunting stories about Death himself for this issue. Not only does the artwork exude that classic Starlin touch, but the stories are masterful as well.

The first story, "Death Building" is the tale of Steve Apollo and his acid-induced challenge to beat Death. I have a feeling this is not going to end well...Full story:

*Although the original Star Reach was in black and white, a reprint was later released in color. I scanned the color version for maximum effect*


Love how Starlin himself makes an appearance in his own story! I also wonder if acid was a real imaginative motor for Jim. The next story is Starlin's take on the birth of Death, titled well...,"The Birth of Death!". Full story:



 Starlin would go on to continue to use Death in many of his other stories, even as a love-interest for Thanos. While there are many other terrific stories to enjoy in this first issue such as Howie Chaykin's, "Cody Starbuck" series, Starlin's contributions undoubtedly steal the show in Star Reach #1.

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Star#Reach

Bronze Age Grad School

Reaction Paper #11: On Comic Book Artist Vol. 2 #2’s look at Star#Reach

Editor’s note: Last fall, as part of my Master’s studies through Fort Hays State University, I enrolled in an independent reading project on the Bronze Age of the American comic book. Over a four-month period, I read several books and articles about the Bronze Age, and wrote a reaction paper about each. This is #11 of a 17-part series.
CODY STARBUCK, FROM EDITOR JON B. COOKE’S
COMIC BOOK ARTIST VOL. 2, #2.

(Illustration by Howard Chaykin)
Published by Top Shelf, © Jon B. Cooke, 2003
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As the previous two Reaction Papers made clear, industry leaders Marvel and DC did face some competition during the Bronze Age. But companies like Charlton (see Reaction Paper #9) and Atlas (Seaboard) (see Reaction Paper #10) were also-rans who competed with the “Big Two” via traditional newsstand distribution. By the end of the Bronze era in the mid-’80s, that newsstand distribution system would take a backseat to a direct sales market, one filled with a myriad of small, independent publishers. Long before then, in 1974, one visionary publisher would launch a comic book geared for the then-emerging market. And while Mike Friedrich’s Star*Reach might not have lasted long enough to reap the benefits, there is little doubt his company — also named Star*Reach — helped pave the way for the market revolution to come.
Friedrich and Star*Reach were the subject of a special section in editor Jon B. Cooke’s Comic Book Artist Vol. 2, # 2, published in October 2003. Over the course of three interviews with Friedrich, Cooke works to chronicle the history of the innovative publisher, and to establish where exactly Star*Reach fits into the big picture of comic-book history. From the very beginning, it was clear that Star*Reach was different from the mainstream publishers of the time. Using a business model that more closely resembled the underground comix system than the one used by mainstream publishers, Friedrich looked to publish “ground level” comics aimed at an older audience (p. 49). These older readers would get their comics from used bookstores, mail-order comics retailers, convention dealers, and some of the first actual comic-book stores; collectively, these outlets would grow into the direct market (p. 70). The material in Star*Reach would feature “fantasy material that had more of an adult flavor, whether it was science-fiction or humor” (p. 69). Early on, this material was produced by some of the biggest rising stars of the era — Howard Chaykin, Jim Starlin, P. Craig Russell, etc. — artists Friedrich had encountered during his earlier days as a writer for both DC and Marvel. The budding, young publisher — Friedrich was still in his 20s — was able to attract such top talent by offering them the chance to do more adult-oriented work (though not as sexually explicit as the undergrounds), ownership of that work, and royalty payments — concepts all foreign to the Big Two at the time (p. 59). And while it’s easy to romanticize such advances in creator rights, Friedrich also felt these moves were good business: “I was convinced the business model would take over the world” (p. 60).
Initially, the model worked extremely well. Star*Reach #1 (see Comics Bronze Age’s review) sold out its initial print run of 15,000 copies and eventually sold “somewhere around 30,000” (p. 62). Dozens of other comics — more issues of Star*Reach, and other titles, like Quack andImagine — soon followed. The company’s best year came in 1977, when Star Wars hit theaters and created a demand for “anything that had the word ‘star’ in it” (p. 67). But soon business missteps would take a toll on Star*Reach. Friedrich notes that the decision to move to color proved “disastrous,” pointing to both cost and quality issues (p. 71). He also notes that he “stopped really focusing on the commercial aspects of comics,” and started publishing books that were “less commercially interesting” (p. 71). By the end of the decade, Star*Reach was all but finished.
But Friedrich and the direct sales market he helped to develop were both there to stay. In January of 1980, the former publisher took a position at Marvel to help the industry leader retool its sales department to take advantage of the new distribution model. Following that, he went on to establish an agency that represented comic creators and advocated for their rights. Star*Reach might have been ahead of its time, but the concepts at the company’s core proved prescient.
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CERBERUS

CERBERUS
Real Name: Cerberus
Occupation: Guardian to the Underworld
Legal Status: Citizen of Tartarus
Identity: The general populace of Earth is unaware of the existence of Cerberus except as a fictional being of mythological origin.
Other Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Typhon (father), Echidna (mother, deceased), Geryon (uncle, deceased), Ladon, Orthrus, Chimaera (brothers, deceased), Hydra, Phaea, Sphinx (sisters, deceased), Medusa (great-grandmother, deceased), Chrysaor (grandfather), Callirrhoe (grandmother), Orion, Triton (great-uncles), Poseidon (great-grandfather), ZeusHades (great-granduncles), HeraDemeterHestia (great-grandaunts)
Group Affiliations: ally of Hades and Hela
Base of Operations: Hades (Tartarus)
First Appearance: Thor I #130
History: Cerberus one of the denizens of the underworld of Hades, reserved for the spirits of the worshippers of the Olympian gods. Placed at the gates of the underworld, Cerberus is the spawn of Typhon, the ancient wind-god who once challenged the Gods of Olympus, and the snake-goddess, Echidna, the daughter of the giant Chrysaor, son of Poseidon and Medusa, and the ocean-goddess, Callirrhoe. Echidna and Typhon had conceived a brood of mismatched creatures supposedly because they mated while in the throes of shape-shifting into several animals, their children having taken on the forms of those animals. Another theory is that their traits are the result of a curse Athena inflicted on Medusa and the other Gorgons for willingly allowing themselves to be seduced by Poseidon. Their father, Typhon, might also be partially demonic since his father was spawned from the energies of Tartarus itself.
Zeus imprisoned Typhon within Mount Aetna on Sicily. Echidna later fled to Libya where she abducted children as sustenance to her offspring, giving rise to the later legends of vampires and monsters. Arges, one of the Cyclopes loyal to Zeus, later killed her to stop her bloodshed.
Hades eventually employed Cerberus in establishing order in the Underworld after the defeat of the Titans and the beginning of his domain of the underworld. Cerberus slew Keres, an ancient spirit that terrorized and punished the dead and later took his place at the gates of Hades. He unerringly fulfilled his role in keeping the spirits of the dead from wandering back to the world of the living, but he was oft times distracted and waylaid by a few mortal heroes. Orpheus, the half-mortal son of the Muse Calliope, came down after his adventures with the Argonauts to retrieve his true love Eurydice who had died. Singing a song of woe, Orpheus was able to mesmerize Cerberus into letting him pass into the Underworld. The mortals Theseus and Peirithous distracted Cerberus to let them pass on their way to abduct Persephone, but Hades himself captured them. Hercules on his last labor was able to forcibly drag Cerberus all the way to the court of King Eurystheus of Mycenae. The ordeal obviously gave many mortal men their first true appearance of the beast that they knew only by rumors. Having proved himself, Hercules freed Cerberus to flee back to the Underworld alone. With the help of Zeus and Athena, the Phoenician princess Psyche lulled Cerberus into complacency with cakes to prove she was worthy to marry Cupid.
After Zeus allowed worship of the Olympian Gods to die out, Hades was not permitted to accept the souls of any more mortals. According to some accounts, he began venturing to Earth in mortal guise going after earthbound ghosts and evil spirits. Realizing Cerberus’ might and ferocity, he gave Cerberus the gift of intelligence and the power to alter his appearance and even attain a humanoid appearance. Hades started using him as an agent in his concerns. In his presence, Cerberus could appear as a black rottweiler of extraordinary size with red eyes or as a huge intimidating African-American humanoid bodyguard.
In modern years, Cerberus often clashed with Thor and Hercules time and time again as they confronted Hades for his actions on Earth. Cerberus was present at the formation of the short-lived group of heroes known as the Champions of Los Angeles. When the Avengers escaped his realm, Hades held Cerberus at fault and stripped him of his sentience and ability to change forms in order that Cerberus could regain his ferocity as a watchdog. He stored these memories into his Havoc-Bringer arrow, which eventually ended up on earth under unknown means. Cerberus escaped the arrow and briefly possessed a mortal man on Earth where he confronted Hercules again. Hela claimed Havoc-Bringer afterward and lured Cerberus from Hades, reuniting him with his consciousness stored in Havoc-Bringer. Hela sent him against Doctor Strange entering her realm for the icy remains of Thor. It is possible that Hades lent Cerberus to Hela for the soul purpose of guarding Thor’s remains, but this is unconfirmed. Cerberus was returned to Hades afterward and was borrowed by Loki to be used as a steed for his minion known as the Flame.
Sometime later, Cerberus witnessed the young wards of the Fantastic Four invade Hades to rescue Caledonia from Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons. When Valeria Von Doom attacked him, Cerberus called upon the armies of the Underworld to attack her and her allies. The young wards had to be rescued by Hercules and the Fantastic Four.

Height: (humanoid) 7’ 3”
Weight: 725 lbs.
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black

Unusual Physical Features: In his true form, Cerberus resembles a large wolf with three heads. However, since his ability to alter his form, his appearance has often varied and he randomly resumes to his “true form” resembling a different breed of dog, such as a Doberman pinscher, rottweiler or pit bull.

Strength Level: In his human form, Cerberus possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift (press) at least 50 tons under optimal conditions.

Known Superhuman Powers: Cerberus possesses the conventional physical attributes of the Olympian gods with whom he shares the same ancestors and relations. Like all Olympians, he is immortal: he has not aged since reaching adulthood and cannot die by any conventional means. He is immune to all Earthly diseases and is resistant to conventional injury. If he were somehow wounded, his godly life force would enable him to recover with superhuman speed. It would take an injury of such magnitude that it dispersed a major portion of his bodily molecules to cause him a physical death. Even then, it might be possible for a god of significant power, such as Zeus, Poseidon and Hades or for a number of Olympian gods of equal power working together to revive him. Cerberus also possesses superhuman strength and his Olympian metabolism provides him with far greater than human endurance in all physical activities. (Olympian flesh and bone is about three times as dense as similar human tissue, contributing to the Olympians' superhuman strength and weight.)

Cerberus has incredible superhuman strength, but he is no where as powerful as major immortals like Zeus, Hercules or Hades. He has the ability to mystically alter his form, becoming more humanoid and to regain his regular canine form, although he may be unconsciously influenced by different breeds and types of dogs from time to time, resulting in variations of his form as a "hell-hound." Possessed of great savagery and animal ferocity in this form, he can gather the shades ("souls") of the underworld en masse at his bidding by screaming or howling to the boundaries of Hades itself. He has several of the same attributes of dogs and wolves except at more superhuman levels. 

Comments: This bio pretty much encapsulates Cerberus of the Marvel Universe with aspects of his counterpart in the “God of the Dead” novella by William C. Uchtman. He has been briefly noticed a few times in “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”

Cerberus has counterparts in other pantheons including Garm/Fenris Wolf of the Norse, Sarameyau from Hindu/Vedic myth, Ammit from Egypt, Pek from the Aztec underworld, and Surma (Manalan-Rakhi) from Finland.
CLARIFICATIONS: Cerberus is not to be confused with:
  • Cerberus, pet wolf of O.Z. Chase, @ Dazzler #38
  • Cerberus, genetic creation of Dr. Zeus, @ Marvel Team-Up II #2
  • Cerberus, demonic dog of Oliver Stroker, @ Gambit II #2
  • Cerberus, robotic creation of Dr. Demonicus, @ Shogun Warriors #7
  • Cerberus, 24th Century robot war machine, @ Iron Man I #5
Updated: 12-29-07

MEDUSA

MEDUSA
Real Name: Medusa
Occupation: Recluse, former priestess of Athena
Legal Status: Non-Entity
Identity: The general populace of Earth is unaware of the existence of Medusa except as a mythological figure.
Other Aliases: Various, including May Dusa
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Phorcys (father), Ceto (mother), Stheno, Euryale (sisters, possibly deceased), The Graiae (Deinos, Enyo, Pephredo – sisters),  Chrysaor (son), Pegasus (daughter, presumably), Orion (nephew, deceased), Callirrhoe (daughter-in-law), Geryon (grandson, deceased), Echidna (granddaughter, deceased), Typhon (grandson-in-law), Cerberus (great-grandson), Ladon, Chimaera, Orthrus (great-grandsons, deceased), Hydra, Phaea, Sphinx (great-granddaughters, deceased),
Group Membership: The Gorgons, former member of the Olympian Gods
Base of Operations: Mobile, formerly an unknown outpost somewhere in Ancient Libya
First Appearance: Marvel Preview #10
Final Appearance: (death) Clash of the Titans (1981)
History: Medusa is a member of an extra-dimensional race of beings known as the Olympians, who were worshipped as gods by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Medusa was one of the Gorgons, daughters of the ancient sea-gods, Phorcys and Ceto, who were overthrown when Zeus conquered Olympus and overthrew the Titans who previously reigned over the Olympians. Afterward, the Gorgons became attendants and priestesses of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and she took vows from them that they would remain virgins to honor her, a pact that they were more than negligent in obeying. Beautiful in appearance, the Gorgons were courted by the sea-god Poseidon and conceived him children. Euryale bore the giant Orion to Poseidon and Medusa bore him Chrysaor. Athena however discovered their indiscretions within her temple and cursed them heavily by stripping them of their godly beauty so that they would never attract any other mortal man or god. The Gorgons fled to Earth for the boundaries of Ancient Libya to live in isolation away from the eyes of mortals and immortals. According to legend, they had became so hideous that any man who discovered them was turned to stone. Whether this was a product of Athena’s spell or a power acquired by the Gorgons to punish invaders is unrevealed.
In the Fourteenth Century BC, King Polydectes of Seriphos courted Princess Danae of Argos in order to lay claim to her lands. To insure he would have no other claimant to the throne, he sent her son, Perseus, on a quest to slay Medusa and return with her head as proof, expecting him to be killed in the dangerous adventure. Perseus, however, was the son of Zeus, and was guided by Athena  to visit the Garden of the Hesperides for the goddesses there to provide him with several weapons required in confronting Medusa. Perseus was armed with winged sandals to move quickly through the air, a cap that made him invisible, a pouch that was immune to Medusa’s blood and an enchanted sword to use against her. Afterward, Perseus sought out the Graiae, the sisters of the Gorgons, who had been stripped of their eternal youth for their complicity in their sisters’ sins to learn where to find them. Although he had to ransom the sacred eye of the Graiae to attain their cooperation, Perseus procured from them the location where he should seek out the Gorgons before returning their eye. 
Ashamed and angry at the world, the Gorgons had fled beyond the boundaries of the known world seeking solitude, finally coming to rest in a deserted Greek outpost near the shore of Ancient Libya surrounded by the stone statues of their previous victims. Medusa was slain by Perseus concealed from her by his cap of invisibility and using the reflection of his shield to avoid looking upon them directly. The other Gorgons rose up to battle Perseus, but he escaped away unseen, later using Medusa’s head against Atlas and to punish Polydectes for his folly. From Medusa’s body, the infant form of Pegasus, a winged horse, sprung forth as the offspring of Poseidon and Medusa. The Gorgons greatly mourned their sister and saved her blood for its mystical anathema. Athena used it as a healing potion and gave vials of it to King Erichthonius of Athens and the young healer, Asclepius, informing him which portions cured disease and which was a deadly poison. Athena also saved a clipping from Medusa’s hair and concealed it in an urn to give to Hercules, the great-grandson of Perseus, two generations later. He gave it to Sterope, daughter of King Cepheus of Tegea, and told her it could be used to ward off any army while her father was away at war. Serpents conjured from Medusa’s blood also menaced the Argonauts as they returned to Greece.
By all accounts, Perseus had beheaded Medusa and her corpse was ravaged that fragments of it could be used in the precision of mystical spells and rituals. A stone chard of her body even eventually fell into the possession of awarlock named Lewis Vendredi in the Twentieth Century. Athena had two flutes from her ribs, which she later discarded after her inability to create music from them. Medusa’s head, however, eventually became too dangerous to keep and Perseus tossed it to the sea as an offering to Athena. She emblazoned the front of her aegis with it to wear into battle. However, there is speculatory evidence that Medusa’s spirit managed to survive and she returned to life several times by infusing her essence into mortal women and transforming them into duplicates of her original body. Hercules and the Argonauts encountered her while procuring gold from the Isle of Fear in the Black Sea and slew her once again, her victims restored to life from the stone effigies they had become afterward. Some years after her death, Greek soldiers were surprised by an extra-terrestrial scout from the planet D’Bari and confused him with Medusa because of his alien appearance and weapon that turned men to stone.
During the Twentieth Century, Medusa’s spirit took possession of a number of human bodies, each of them becoming some variation of her original body with snakes for hair due to Athena's curse. Hoping to avoid heroes wanting to confront her, she tried to live out a normal existence under the name May Dusa and became a mortal photographer, shunning notoriety and public appearances, but when she was burglarized, her assailant tore off her hood used to conceal her appearance and was turned to stone by her. She sold him as a piece of artwork afterward. However, an unidentified person realized the truth and sought to destroy her, but must have had pity on her instead and imprisoned her in an unidentified castle in Europe. She was soon discovered here as well and released from her cell by a blind man responding to her cries of distress. Not knowing her rescuer was blind and wondering why he was not transformed to stone in her presence, Medusa looked into a mirror and unwittingly turned herself to stone.
It is unsure how many of these appearances truly are Medusa or actually those of her sisters who survived into recent times. (It is known that her sister, Stheno, recently aided Deimos and Phobos in a scheme in Gotham City, New Jersey against Batmanand Wonder Woman.) According to one account, Medusa and Poseidon had at least one daughter who was entirely normal. Athena granted this daughter a kingdom of her own hidden within the earth, but a disreputable anthropologist named Edward Lansing leading a band of fortune hunters invaded it. When they tried to pillage her city for its treasure, Medusa’s daughter turned them all into serpents. This woman could account for some of Medusa’s extraneous appearances on Earth. However, it is also possible this woman is actually a member of the Eternals or the Deviants who were often mistaken for the Olympian gods.
Actually craving vengeance on the Olympian gods, Medusa attempted to possess the original Supergirl for her Kryptonian powers in a plot against Zeus and Athena. Supergirl managed to stave off the possession to fight off the Justice League of America, but after she accidentally turned them to stone, she realized Medusa was taking more control over her. Medusa was eventually confronted by the spirit of Perseus inhabiting the human form of Supergirl’s boyfriend, and actually helped Supergirl to destroy the last of Medusa’s earthly remains, breaking her last link to Earth and removing her spirit from earth. Some years later, Phobos, the son of Ares, used these ashes to create the demoness, Decay, to battle Wonder Woman.
Under unknown circumstances, Medusa remained active in spirit form, taking possession of a bio-engineered Gorgon body created by a geneticist with the DNA of a human woman and a snake, but she was again slain by Hercules. Sometime after, she took possession of a female sculptor in Leeds Point, New Jersey, turning wayward tourists into statues. In this form, she possibly gained her most humanoid appearance so far, but she was again confronted and beheaded by Percy Jackson, a mortal son ofPoseidon.

Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 395 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black

Unusual Physical Traits: As goddesses, the Gorgons were revered as the most beautiful of the early Olympian gods with wings of gold, resembling angels from Judeo-Christian Religion. Cursed by Athena, they became more serpentine in appearance with green thick scaly skin, snakes for hair and wings of bronze. In additional to these mystical mutations, they attained brazen hands and long tongues, which lolled from their mouths between tusks like those of swine. In some of her modern appearances, Medusa is depicted as having a long serpentine body. Her eyes glow white when she uses her power to turn men to stone.
Known Superhuman Powers: Medusa once possessed the conventional attributes of an Olympian goddess. Like all of the Olympians, she was extremely long-lived; her spirit being able to exist on Earth long after her death. When she was alive, she aged at an extremely slow rate and could not die by conventional means. She was immune to all Earthly diseases and was resistant to conventional injury. If she were somehow wounded, her godly life force would enable her to recover with superhuman speed. However, due to Athena’s curse, she was bereft of much of her godly attributes and made much more vulnerable to conventional injury. It is unknown if she retained any of her superhuman strength or Olympian metabolism. (Olympian flesh and bone is three times denser than comparable human tissue, contributing to their superhuman strength and weight.).
As a goddess, Medusa and her sisters had limited abilities to tap into and manipulate mystical energies. While it is unsure as to the extent of her powers, it is obvious that she lost the majority of her mystical powers under the effects of Athena’s curse. However, it is unclear as to whether transforming people to stone was under Medusa’s power or a part of Athena’s curse. The fact that Perseus could resist being turned to stone just by avoiding directly looking upon Medusa and deflecting her gaze seems to suggest that this power is more under Medusa’s power than part of Athena’s curse; otherwise, everyone who ever came within proximity of Medusa without seeing her directly would be turned to stone. Furthermore, since one person resisted being affected just by being blind suggests that the mystical process was accomplished on Medusa’s behalf by direct eye contact with the person she managed to catch in her gaze. This process involved the transformation of all cellular human tissue into stone except for clothing and articles on that person. At least after Medusa’s death, her victims could be restored to life (even after several years) once she was slain so at least part of this power must have weakened after her physical death.  
Abilities: Medusa is a capable archer with a bow and arrow.
Comments: This bio pretty much encapsulates Medusa as she has been seen in the Marvel Universe with aspects of her appearances in DC Comics and the TV-Series, “Friday The Thirteenth: The Series.” She was also active behind the scenes in "The Gorgon" (1965) starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
According to the myth, Medusa was the only one among the Gorgons who was not immortal. This seems suspect and was likely added later to the myth as a convenience to make it that much more believable for Perseus to slay her.
Considering that the Graiae (also called the Gray Sisters) are sisters of the Gorgons and were also likely goddesses at one time as well, it is reasonable to speculate that they were also found at fault for the sins of their sisters. If the Gorgons were stripped of their beauty, perhaps they were stripped of their eternal youth enchantments, becoming vastly aged goddesses victim to the ravages of old age. In “Clash of the Titans,” they were excellently and faithfully portrayed visually as three Stygian witches and their eye depicted as a crystal ball. 
According to the myth, Pegasus is reputedly to have sprung from Medusa’s head. As the last offspring of Poseidon and Medusa, it probably sprang from her corpse after she died, but only because Athena’s curse possibly prohibited her from conceiving it naturally. Medusa’s son, Chrysaor, is sometimes said to have sprung from her corpse too, but this must as be error, because his daughter, Echidna, the wife of Typhon, was killed several generations prior by Argus, a former sentry of Mount Olympus.
Medusa was played by Tony Randall in “The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao” (1964) and by Uma Thurman in "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." She was animated in stop-motion (photo above) by Ray Harryhausen for “Clash of the Titans” (1981) and animated in CGI for "Clash of the Titans" (2010). It should be added, there is no mythical basis for Calibos, the main villain in the movie.

Historically, Medusa was possibly an ancient death-goddess of Libya, her ability to turn men to stone an allegory for rigor mortis. She was likely eliminated by Perseus in Libya to make room for worship of Zeus.

Profile by: WillU
CLARIFICATIONS: Medusa is not to be confused with:

  • Dr. Medusa, Dr. Myrna Rhodes, member of the Creature Commandoes, @ Weird War Tales #93
  • Medulla, female Deviant, mother of Ransak the Reject, @ Fantastic Four Unlimited #10
  • Medulla, foe of the Justice League of America, @ “Attack of the Mind Maidens,” Super-Friends TV-Series, ABC-TV  
  • Medusa, daughter of Medusa, ally of Athena, @ Adventures Into Terror #15  
  • Medusa, Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, member of the Inhuman Royal Family, @ Fantastic Four I #36
  • Medusa, clone of the Inhuman Medusa created by Death, @ Giant-Size Fantastic Four #3
  • Medusa, counterpart of the Inhuman Medusa in the Earth-X reality, @ Earth-X Sketch Book
  • Medusa, creation of Dr. Zeus for his Menagerie of Myth, @ Marvel-Team-Up II #2
  • Medusa Moonrider, counterpart of the Inhuman Medusa in the Amalgam Earth reality, @ Challengers of the Fantastic #1
  • Medusa, female nemesis of the Flash, @ The Superman Family #199
  • Medusae, alien extra-terrestrial race who aided Seeker 3000, @ Seeker 3000 #2
  • Medusa Web, International mercenary organization in the New Universe, @ Psi-Force #17
  • Medusan-lifeform in Star Trek

Last updated: 09/13/2010