Just like the other day with Frankenstein, I would've sworn I had Essential Marvel Horror as well. (In fact, recently I bought another Essential X-Men I already had, and had to take that back in...) So we have the original instead of the reprint today, even if I'm still scratching my head. From 1979, Marvel Team-Up #81, "Last Rites" Written by Chris Claremont, pencils by Mike Vosburg, inks by Steve Leialoha.
In the previous issue, Doctor Strange got turned into a werewolf; so this month it's up to Spidey and Satana to save him. (With Strange's love and last month's guest-star Clea left to sit there and look concerned.) The GCD's recap is short and to the point: "Satana helps rescue Dr. Strange, but she loses her life in the process." Poor Sat hadn't made a ton of appearances at that point, and Claremont may have written a lot of them, including her Marvel Premiere issue, but I wonder. Damien: Omen II would've come and gone the year before; and looking it up Marvel's Tomb of Dracula was about to wrap up: I suspect editorial was putting a lot of the horror stuff out to pasture. It would not have a heavy presence in the 80's there.
I honestly thought her horns were real for most of this issue, and that maybe they disappeared when she died? But now I'm thinking it was just a hat. A terrible hat. That can't be comfortable...
Ok, well then have Kurt ask Sat where her horns are at. That should solve that one right?
ReplyDeleteI don't have Essential Marvel Horror either but this one is also in Essential Marvel Team-Up 4, which I do have. Some good stories in there, highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this one's pretty good. There was another Doctor Strange two-parter not even six months before this so I wonder why they would do them so close together.
Someone does ask Sat! Soon.
ReplyDeleteI had to look, I don't have any Essential Team-Up! Two-In-One, yeah. Always vaguely looking for ones I don't have; some are getting rare.