When deep-sea diving off of the Marquesas Islands, explorers/lovers Chuck Hardy and Jerry Peterson are caught in a volcanic upheaval and sucked through a rift in the ocean floor. They find themselves in one of the many underground lands that dot any comic book version of the Earth – this one being lit and heated by an enormous volcano called Roara. Chuck and Jerry’s time in the underground land (never actually named as a whole, so I have been calling…
Pad out your pantheon with some of these: Death: This version of Death may lack the social graces necessary to welcome Kardak the Mystic and his pal Lorna rather than attempt to murder them for entering his domain, but he does have a very good version of the classic “robed skeleton” look. And his house is charmingly coffin-themed, to boot! God Style: Anthropomorphic Personification (Top-Notch Comics 008, 1940) Ramu, God of Fire: Ramu, God of Fire is another one of…
(Amazing-Man Comics 005-026, 1939-1942) All the ephemeral Golden Age heroes who stalked the pages of Amazing-Man Comics: The Iron Skull! I love him. His origin and so forth is doled out after a few issues so initially you don’t know that he is a cyborg war casualty in the far future world of 1970. The most important things are there from the start, though: his huge anime eyes and the fact that every bullet or attack made against him unerringly…