Featuring: Venus
Release: March 14, 1949
Cover: June 1949
10 cents
19 pages
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Nothing is as important as love.
No credits are given, save that of the editorial consultant to make sure it’s child-friendly.
We are reading this because it features Jupiter. I’m not actually interested in Jupiter. I’m interested in Zeus. Jupiter is a Roman god; Zeus a Greek god. But Roman mythology borrowed quite heavily from Greek mythology, and many of their stories are just the Greek stories with different names. The Roman Jupiter basically is Zeus with a different name.
I’m interested in the upcoming introduction of Hercules, whose father is Zeus. This is confusing, because Hercules is the name of a Roman demigod, modeled after the Greek demigod, Heracles. Heracles is the son of Zeus; Hercules the son of Jupiter.
In fact, the Hercules we met in Daring Mystery Comics #6 was the son of Jupiter.
This is confusing enough to make me think that in the Marvel Universe, Hercules and Heracles are the same person. So maybe Zeus and Jupiter are as well.
So let’s read this story about Jupiter.
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