Earlier this year, I used time-traveler Flip Falcon to repair many of our misconceptions about Amazons. Today, the Marvelman Family is going to help us understand the truth about Atlantis.
For reasons that we really shouldn't dwell upon, Marvelman, Young Marvelman, and Kid Marvelman have traveled back in time to uncover the truth of the Atlantis legend:
Hmmm....well, where can it be?
Well, yes, that's true, but...
Now wait a minute!! Just because a legend has become "distorted" over the centuries doesn't mean that the actual truth is the 180-degree polar opposite of the legend!!Oh, wait, yes it does:
Tanatlis? Really?
Well, that's conclusive--legends are just Bizarro versions of the truth!! As Marvelman pounds into our head again at the end:
Hey, wait--how did they know that Atlantis didn't sink??
Ahhhh....Atlantis=Australia. Well, they both start with A, so...So, Micky Moran, can you pound home the moral one more time, please??
Thanks, Micky.The Marvelman Family's expertise in folklore/mythology came in handy in Marvelman Family #10 (1957), as reprinted in Marvelman Family's Finest #4 (2010).
Would you like to know how many times I typed "Miracleman" instead of "Marvelman?" Every. Damn. Time. Grrr.....
4 comments:
Ok ok, atlantis didn't sink and was actually austrailia, that doesn't answer where the people went. They can't be as drawn there the native people of austrailia that we know today. So what happened?
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Oh, Marvelman says it was wiped out in "the Ice Age."
I think that, rather than admit that his "Let's look in the Pacific" idea was really stupid, Marvelman just took the first island they came across and declared "Look, it's Atlantis!" Any evidence that came up to the contrary, he just dismissed by saying "The legend's been distorted over time."
Well played, Erich.
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