As I'm not very familiar with Mantis can someone explain to me how she's a green skinned humanoid even though according to her wikipedia page she's a half German, half Vietnamese human?
As I'm not very familiar with Mantis can someone explain to me how she's a green skinned humanoid even though according to her wikipedia page she's a half German, half Vietnamese human?
The Avengers #112 "The Lion God Lives! First appearance of MANTIS!
Story by Steve Englehart Art by Don Heck and Frank Bolle
In Defenders #4, Steve Englehart permanently altered the Marvel landscape by introducing (at least in her current incarnation) a major female character, Valkyrie, and here he does so again by creating Mantis, the object of the exercise in his legendary Celestial Madonna saga.
How much of that he had in mind right out of the gate, I don’t know, but it’s fascinating to contrast their success with the failure of the three overtly feminist books that were folding simultaneously. Of course, she inhabits only three panels of an issue whose story, and especially its Heck/Bolle artwork, are otherwise unmemorable,although it is historically noteworthy in one other, minor respect: establishing the Black Widow’s membership among the shortest on record.
The Avengers #123 page 1
by Bob Brown and Don Heck http://donheck.com/
Wow, Mantis has never been more beautifully shown than in the above 2 pics! I love that look.
Her hair has Wanda-like 2 top curls, lots of body (not the completely straight later look with bangs) and her dress is very elegant while maintaining the Mantis colors we all know. Very nice indeed!
Thank you for sharing the pics, 616!
Defenders # 9, October 1973
During a crossover where Avengers battle the Defenders a man fires a gun which results in Mantis spending five panels running across the field, outrunning the bullet, and knocks her colleague out of the bullet’s path!
Here’s the five-panel running sequence:
Five-panel polyptych from Defenders # 9, October 1973, written by Steve Englehart, drawn by Sal Buscema
http://talesfromthekryptonian.blogsp...l-buscema.html
http://boards.collectors-society.com...Number=9775146
I remember those Mantis panels! It was meant to show her speed and agility.
I believe Mantis was running to confront Doctor Strange.
Thor & Mantis vs Nuklo!
From Giant-Size Avengers #1 (1974). Art by Rich Buckler http://www.comicsreporter.com/index...._rich_buckler/
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We haven't brought up the Mantis proxies by Steve Englehart that showed up at other comic book companies...
Very interesting to see other company's take on Mantis. They are both missing her antenna.
When was she in those other books?