#demogorge

[tomoleary]

Pasqual Ferry — The Mighty Thor #9 Demogorge (2012) Source

[vertigoartgore]

2008's Incredible Hercules Vol.1 #117 cover by cover artist John Romita Jr., inker Klaus Janson and colorist Dean White.

[comicwaren]

From Immortal Thor #008, “The Last Judgment”

Art by Ibraim Roberson and Matthew Wilson

Written by Al Ewing

[shung-chai]

Demiurge Primordial, the Godcreator!!

Thor Annual #10 (1982): In a primal time many eons ago when the Earth was still forming, the Demiurge (the incarnation of the power of creation) arose from the crackling energy of the planet's nascent biosphere!

Silver Surfer Annual #2 (1989): The Demiurge seeded the newborn planet with its energies, giving rise to Earth's Elder Gods: Gaea (Mother Nature), the dark mystic Chthon, the serpentine Set, and the sorceress Oshtur!

Thor Annual #10 (1982): However, when most of the other Elder Gods degenerated into demonic beings and began to destroy each other, the benevolent Gaea convinced the Demiurge to help her create Atum, the first of a new generation of gods!

Silver Surfer Annual #2 (1988): Atum attacked the demonic Elder Gods and absorbed their corrupted life forces, transforming him into the monstrous Demogorge!

Thor Annual #10 (1982): After all of the demonic Elder Gods had either been destroyed or chased into other dimensions by the Demogorge, he purged the corrupted god energies from his body and reverted back to his Atum form, eventually retreating into Earth's sun.

The History of the Marvel Universe #1 (2019): This god energy fell back to the Earth, where the nascent consciousness of mankind eventually tapped into it, giving rise to new pantheons of gods born in man's image.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

What happened to all the elder gods, you know if they are bringing this up, it is probably going to leak over into the upcoming story... that is why the CMRO has us read these first...

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[thisiswhatwereupagainst]

The gods of the Norse, Greek, Ancient Egyptian, and many other pantheons are shown to be real in Marvel comics. But, where did they come from? Do their origin stories match those of the original mythos upon which they’re based? Not exactly. Thor Annual #10, published in 1982, reveals the story of how all the gods came to be. It shows that mankind actually came before them, and, in a way, created them. So, go way way way WAY back. You’ve got Earth. No life yet. But it’s TEEMING with life energy and potential. That energy became a sentience known as the Demiurge, “the sentient life-force of Earth’s biosphere” The Demiurge passed over the Earth and showered it with sparks of its own creative life-force, and these became the Elder Gods. The Elder Gods multiplied and filled the Earth. As time passed, their overpopulation caused them to degenerate into demons constantly at war with each other in a struggle for supremacy. All except for Gaea, , who loved the Earth with a motherly tenderness, and feared that the others would destroy its potential for new life. Her yearning to bring goodness into the world she so loved summoned the Demiurge itself, who impregnated her with Atum, first of the new gods. Atum possessed the power of the blazing sun, and with it, he slew the Elder Gods, and absorbed their godly energies into himself, becoming the misshapen Demogorge--the God-Eater! He then flew into the sky, and cast these excess energies out of himself, seeding the world with them. Now returned to his true form, Atum merged with the sun itself. Eons passed, and mankind emerged. Man’s consciousness tapped into the “godstuff” left behind by Atum, and created new gods in man’s own image. These are the present Marvel gods that we are now familiar with. Of course, this being Marvel, there are doubtlessly a lot of contradictory canon stories out there too....

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Thor is able to take over Demogorge just long enough to rip Set to shreds before then being consumed himself.