Marvel’s Superman & The Eternals Are Linked But In A Strange Way
Discover the surprising link that Marvel’s Superman; Hyperion, needs to the Eternals:
Discover the surprising link that Marvel’s Superman, Hyperion, needs to the Eternals nowadays. This can be “Foundationed Deep,” a neighbourhood during which we glance at odd/strange/interesting samples of retrospectively linked disparate mag characters (for example, Uncanny X-Men # 268 retroactively established that Wolverine knew each Captain America and therefore the Latrodectus mactans throughout WWII). The backstory of the Squadron Supreme is predicated on a fictitious crossover between the Avengers and the Justice League. In 1969, Roy Thomas was writing the Avengers and Denny O’Neil was writing the Justice League of America. Thomas was the one who in person recruited O’Neil into the comics business (O’Neil was operating for a newspaper in St. Louis at the time). So, Louis loved to write about comic books in his articles and personal essays. This caught Thomas’ eye, and thus he urged O’Neil to seek a job as an author for Marvel. They were shut since O’Neil worked for Marvel for a number of years before shifting to DC in the late Sixties. The thought of a “secret” crossover between the Justice League and the Avengers came to them. In Avengers #70 (by Thomas, Sal Buscema, and guided missile Grainger), the Avengers are forced to fight against a group of supervillains called the Squadron Sinister.
The Avengers vs. The Sinister Squadron:
Hyperion, Nighthawk, Dr. Spectrum, and the Whizzer made up the Squadron. Those four adversaries were paired with Thor, Iron Man, Goliath, and Captain America. As you may have guessed, Hyperion was based on Superman, Nighthawk was based on Batman, Dr. Spectrum was based on Green Lantern, and the Whizzer was based on the Flash, as you may have guessed. O’Neil handled the false crossover in a less visible way in Justice League of America #75 (by O’Neil, Dick Dillin, and Joe Giella). He pitted the Justice League against clones of themselves, with each of the villainous duplicates serving as a stand-in for the aforementioned Avengers four (Thor, Iron Man, Goliath, and Captain America). Evil Superman, for example, claims to be as powerful as Zeus or Thor; evil Hawkman claims to be as powerful as Iron; evil Atom claims to be able to transform into a Goliath; and evil Batman uses a garbage can lid as a shield. The Avengers were taken to a different realm in Avengers #85-86 (by Thomas, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Frank Giacoia, and Jim Mooney), wherever they encountered the heroes of that planet.
Hyperion has arrived on earth!!
Years later, within the epic maxiseries Squadron Supreme (by Mark Gruenwald, Bob Hall, Paul Ryan, John Buscema, John Beatty, Sam De La Rosa, Jackson Guice, and Keith Williams), Titan decides that the simplest way to solve Earth’s issues is for the Squadron Supreme to require management of the world and fix all of humanity’s issues. Nighthawk, Hyperion’s greatest friend and associate, left the squadron over the plot and quietly fashioned a squad to take down the squadron from within. The last battle was a bloodletting that claimed the lives of plenty of heroes, together with Nighthawk. Titan recognized that they had gone too far, thus he disbanded the Squadron Supreme, also known as their dominion of the world. This, however, was right away followed by a graphic novel known as Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe (by Gruenwald, Ryan, and Al Williamson), during which the Squadron Supreme heroes (who had fought to the death the week before) had to face the very fact that the world had solely twelve hours before it had been destroyed! As a result, they had to figure it all out all over again for the larger smart. The remainder of the book may be a serious analysis of how the world’s heroes would possibly react to such a state of affairs. When exhausted with all of their decisions, the heroes inure the tip. Solely to witness reality full-fledged by one of their members’ unhatched kids, the UN agency sacrifices itself to rescue the universe. In the end, with worn out quasi-stellar radio source # 13 (by Gruenwald, Manley, and Dan Panosian), the squadron is delivered to the most Marvelous Earth and includes a transient battle with a quasi-stellar radio source. Continue the “miscommunication between heroes resulting in a fight” pattern! A quasi-stellar radio source summons the Eternal Makkari for help. By the time Makkari arrives, things have calmed down. Still, Makkari’s coming back is worthwhile just for the X-Men joke.
Hyperion Discovers His Eternal Connection:
Makkari has an unusual habit of looking at Hyperion. Hyperion even asks him what his issue is because he’s so open about it. The Over-Mind, the ancient Squadron Supreme villain, reappears and reclaims control of the squadron (save for Hyperion), forcing Quasar to go save them. The Over-Mind transports them to Stanger’s world, which is populated by minor Marvel characters. Quasar, Hyperion, and Makkari split off when they travel to the Stanger’s planet, and Hyperion and Makkari are essentially absent for most of the plot (we see them attacked by other minor characters, but they’re not really part of the main story). Hyperion’s eyes were wounded in the Squadron Supreme maxiseries, but they have since miraculously healed. But why is that? Because Eternals have control over their molecules, Makkari explained to Hyperion off-panel (and revealed in Quasar #16 by Gruenwald, Manley, Panosian, and Keith Willams) that Hyperion is ALSO an Eternal, just an Eternal from the Squadron Supreme’s universe and is the only survivor of that universe’s Eternals, and since Eternals have control over their molecules, Hyperion was able to fix his own eyes. Hyperion’s relationship with the Eternals never played a significant role in the character’s development, but it was still a great notion by Mark Gruenwald.
