A new magician is taking the country by storm!!
Well, what's next for the great
Zemu?
Wait...
This all feels
familiar, somehow...
But there's more to Zemu than meets the eye:
YOW!!!
By the way...
what the hell?
See, all of his magic was just advanced Saturnian science!!
Fortunately,
Doctor Droom (later retconned into
Dr. Druid, for reasons I never understood...) is on the case:
Earth is saved!! Well, at least
one state in the US. of A. is saved (
California, right? It had to be California!)!
But then we get the moral/info dump:
See, this is why the Droom/Druid thing
never made a lot of sense. Droom explicitly
rejected magic. Meanwhile, Druid, by his very name, was
all about the magic. Sure, he still had the mental abilities, but they were "activated" for him by the
Ancient One, and he used "
Druid magic rituals," and summoned Celtic gods, and used relics created by
Agamotto. Droom was
Scully, Druid was
Mulder.
Anyway, always check to see if the politician making fantastical promises is really from Saturn, is all I'm saying.
From Amazing Adventures #3 (1961)
That's a lot of stuff going on...
ReplyDeleteI assume Droom became Druid to avoid confusion with the more popular/villainous Doom.
Did these Saturnians ever appear again? ("Yes, Reed, Saturn has no surface, I know...")
Still, an invasion plan of just one state?! Hopefully it wasn't Indiana or Rhode Island or something...
Yes, they changed his name to avoid confusion with Doom, although that hardly seemed to be a pressing issue in a horror reprint series.
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