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<\/a><\/div>\nOn an expedition to Guatemala to locate their missing friend John Malcolm, Billy Batson and Whitey Murphy make camp in the lost temple of the monkey god Itzalotahui and are awoken from their slumber by the god himself, flaming and steaming and flailing about.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nAfter an initial panic and an in-retrospect-embarassing fistfight, Captain Marvel discovers the truth: Itzalotahui is not alive but is in fact a cunningly-designed ball and socket arrangement in which the lower torso\/socket is connected to a natural gas source and periodically ignites and wiggles around thanks to gas pressure.<\/p>\n
This issue is real study in contrasts: though the name of the fictional god is literally It’s a Lot of Hooey (in keeping with 1940s contempt for non-Christian or Classical religion), Captain Marvel actually seems to respect the cultural value of the site rather than just smashing it up like so many characters might. Meanwhile, the presence of natural gas means the probability of oil as well, but both Malcolm and Marvel advocate for leaving the area free from the hell of oil extraction, even if they do so in the most patronizing\/patriarchal language possible.<\/p>\n
God Style: Idol (Whiz Comics 022, 1941) <\/p>\n
the Angry God<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The <\/p>\n The God Style: Real (Whiz Comics 023, 1941)<\/p>\n Balka<\/b>: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n Angry God, aka the Dark Spirit, is a near-forgotten entity whose last
\nremaining priest has thrown in with the villain Half-Man and his Hitler
\nstand-in boss the War Lord to lend mystical power to the armies of the
\nAxis forces. The Angry God requires not just human sacrifice but the
\nsacrifice of “great men,” which might go some way toward explaining his
\nlow levels of worshipper-retention. Please also note the fun imp-swarm
\nthat seems to accompany the worship of this particular god – they must
\nbe very distracting. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n Angry God’s status as a real entity and current diminished circumstances are
\nboth illustrated in the fact that it animates its idol in an attempt Ibis the Invincible from killing its priest and then itself falls dead once it is deprived of that one last worshipper.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n