6/11/2023 0 Comments War of the gods comic![]() Which is to say, overall, things were in a pretty good place, but transitions were afoot. And the scope of this crossover touched so many corners of the DCU, that this feels like a really good snapshot of just where things were in 1991. I was still buying comics, based on their covers, off of spinner racks at this point, so I may have had a few of these issues, but I don’t remember any of it. This crossover somewhat pre-dates my fanatical reading/collecting (that came just before “Zero Hour” a few years later), so this all read brand new to me. In a similar vein, this crossover gave me a chance to read some books that I had never encountered, or had not encountered in quite some time. Based on this chunk of the run, I may go back and read the entirety of his time on the book. I’ve read plenty of Wonder Woman stories, but I’d never (until now) really checked out Perez’s run. My initial plan was to follow every editor’s box back, but some of the minutia was just too small, even for me, and some would’ve required reading an entirely different crossover (“Armageddon 2001,” one of the events that was received the poorest both at the time of its publication and today).īut in addition to being an important Captain Marvel story for a few reasons, it was also a lot of fun to dig into a corner of the DCU that I’m not all that familiar with. And, “Wonder Woman” #62 is a true epilogue, and featured Earth’s Mightiest Mortal, so I had to include that, too. “Wonder Woman” #50-57 act as an extended prologue for the series, and Donna Troy, a major part of the story, has her pieces of the story established in two issues of “The New Titans,” so I read all of those as well. I say ’25 part crossover,’ but I read more than that to prepare for this read. Cap played a fairly major role in the 25 part event, built around George Perez’s “Wonder Woman” run. Sadly for him, aside from some appearances in the Superman titles after this, it would still be nearly 4 years before there was an ongoing title featuring the Marvel family.Īfter sitting on the shelf, more or less, from the end of his “Action Comics Weekly” stint at the end of 1988 (no joke, he appeared in exactly one issue in that time, of “Books of Magic.” But more on that next week), Captain Marvel popped back up in 1991’s the ‘War of the Gods’ crossover. ![]() In this week’s Chronicles of Shazam, we look to Captain Marvel’s second big introduction into DC continuity post-Crisis. ![]()
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