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unusual facts about ''New Gods'' #3



Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers

In the last issues of the Pacific series, Kirby crafted an origin story for Captain Victory which he tied in to the New Gods comic book that he had written and drawn for DC Comics in the 1970s.

Golden Pharaoh

While on an expedition in Giza, he was struck by a bolt of energy emanating from the New Gods.

Lightray

Using his power to the utmost he can generate a massive sun as he did in New Gods #3 to escape the Black Racer.

New Gods

The New Gods and their concepts have at times played a central role in the DC Universe, in series such as Jim Starlin's Cosmic Odyssey.

Writer Peter David introduced the idea in Supergirl Vol. 4, issue 29 that the New Gods were giants and that the Boom Tube would shrink them as they traveled to normal time and space or enlarge beings who traveled to the Fourth World realm.

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund (German for "primeval ground"), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.


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