Credits
Colorist(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
fantasy, occult, superhero
Character(s):
The Phantom Stranger; John Kweli; Chuma (The Iron Messiah); Ororo (doctor); Ngumi (witch doctor); Amos Trent (oil company executive)
First Line:
Superstition vs. science -- the Long Ago fighting a losing battle against the Yet to Be...
Synopsis:
Cyberneticist John Kweli returns from America to his African home to find his people harassed by the armed force of an oil company to get them to move off their ancestral land, under which are vast pools of oil. To rally his dispirited people, Kweli creates a metalic, cybernetic incarnation of the god Chuma... that exhibits human characteristics in a most unexpected way.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
14
Job Number:
J-1296
Notes:
Connections?: In this story written by Len Wein, an African female doctor and longtime friend of John Kweli, who remained in her native country to serve her people (rather than seek her fortune in America), is named "Ororo". ...Four years later Wein and Dave Cockrum would create "Ororo Munroe" (aka Storm) for Giant Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 Series) #1.