The Legacy Of...SATAN?!?

As you may have heard, as part of it's Legacy relaunch, many Marvel titles are going to come with a little 4-page "primer" in the front, updating potential new readers on the premise of the series, and the character(s)' history. (DC did the same thing a few years ago, about 10 minutes before they made it all irrelevant with the nu52 reboot)

Marvel has just released the first set of those primers for free on Comixology. so, hey, FREE!!

One of those primers was for the new Spirits Of Vengeance team, with Blade and Ghost Rider and Satana and "Hellstorm" joining forces. Let's look at Daimon's panel, shall we?

Wait just one second!!

As you may recall, when Daimon Hellstrom first appeared, he was the Son Of Satan. No if, ands or buts--his origin very clearly made him the offspring of Satan.

Eventually, for reasons never made clear, Marvel got spooked by the idea of having the literal Biblical Satan as a villain in their universe. So in an increasingly convoluted series of lies retcons, they declared that Daimon's father was some other demon just pretending to be Satan. See Ghost Rider stories from the same era where they pulled the same switcharoo.

Ever since, Daimon hasn't been the son of Satan, and he hasn't been called the Son Of Satan. Marvel keeps changing things around--his true father was Marduk? Satannish?

But check out what they just said:

Now, I'll grant you that his is just a primer, not a complete and thorough biography. And the trademarkable character logo still names him "Hellstorm." But you can't help but notice that they did call him "the son of Satan," not "the son of a demon."

How about his sister?

Same deal.

Of course, Satana never had to change her name in the first place. Apparently, like Satannish, adding a nonsense suffix syllable to the end Satan makes it OK to use the name.

But she had gone through the same origin revision as Daimon. And now Marvel is declaring that Satan is a proud papa again!

So remember--now, and forever more, Disney owns Satan!!