Arak / Son of Thunder #12
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeErnie Colón's cover for this August 1982 DC issue says it all: the muscular, axe-wielding Arak faces down a towering skeletal Ferryman of Hell, whose dark robes billow around them both like a shroud threatening to swallow the fight whole. The sheer scale contrast — spectral giant looming over a warrior who refuses to flinch — makes for a genuinely striking image. With Roy Thomas and Danette Thomas crafting the story inside under the title "Yawn Wide, Ye Gates of Hades!", this one promises the kind of sword-and-sorcery drama that made the series a compelling corner of DC's early-eighties lineup.
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A frustrated teenage Valda desperately wants to become a knight, but the king vowed to her mother that Valda would never be allowed to become a warrior like herself. But, Valda is working as a squire to a boorish young knight when he collapses of a sickness. After ensuring he'll be all right, Valda takes his place in a tournament (in full armor, hiding her identity). When she wins her battle, she claims the right to knighthood, and the king cannot refuse. Later, we find out that it was all a plan. Malagigi (the king's wizard) and the young knight engineered the whole thing.
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