Mephisto vs. The Silver Surfer

[commodus]

With fan speculation that Sigourney Weaver may be playing Mephisto in the upcoming show The Defenders, I thought it would be neat to revisit one of his first encounters with them, all the way back in Defenders #100...





You've got to love that last image of him.
Mephisto: Lord of deceit, father of all lies, flails around like an angry cat when mildly inconvenienced.

Comments

[dr_archeville]

Hunh, Clea refers to Mephisto as Satan at one point. Given the time this was written, I wonder how that slipped by the CCA.

[philippos42]

I don't think there were ever separate CCA censors, just Marvel's internal editorial enforcement.

And I think they had had "Son of Satan" and "Daughter of Satan" as headliners by this time. I think it may have been in the 1980's that they sort of stuck those characters on a shelf. Then they went through a period of leaning heavily on Mephisto as the main devil-figure while having him profess agnosticism as to whether he was the same being as "Satan."

[bruinsfan]

If you mean that "-the light Satan must have meant-" line, she's actually referring to Satan himself, who was the mastermind behind this story arc. (His fellow demon lords Mephisto, Satannish, and Thog the Netherspawn were co-conspirators.)