Secret Wars Issue 2b Variant

1st full appearance of God Emperor Doom


"Doom Messiah" – The issue opens with a ceremony in which a Thor is attempting to lift a Mjolnir.

In the Kingdom of Utopolis, Minister Powers is brought to a site of discovery uncovered by an "earthquake".

The two Thors escort Baron James to the Shield, where he is equipped with basic armour and a sword, and tossed to the Deadlands, a land populated by the undead.

NOTE: The titles "Doom Messiah" and "God Emperor Doom" are both allusions to titles from Frank Herbert's Dune novels. The internal politics within the science fiction setting are also alluding to this.

NOTE: The Shield is virtually identical in structure and purpose to the Wall from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), a massive wall guarding the realms of men from otherworldly threats and protected by lawbreakers as punishment for their crimes. Prior to being identified as "the Shield", it was even called "the Wall" on the map of Battleworld.

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