Real Name:
Satana HellstromSATANA
Real Name:
Satana Hellstrom
Identity/Class: Demon/human hybrid
Occupation:
Succubus;
would-be ruler of Hell
Group Membership: Thunderbolts (Boomerang, Luke Cage, Centurius, Fixer, Ghost, Mr. Hyde, Juggernaut, Mach V, Man-Thing, Moonstone, Shocker, Songbird, Troll), S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos unit (Abominable Snowman, Bradley Beemer, Brother Voodoo, Clone of Frankenstein, Glob/Joe Timms, Gorilla Man/Ken Hale, Groot, Hellstorm, It the Living Colossus, Lilith, Living Mummy, Clay Quartermain, Sasquatch/Walter Langkowski, Vampire by Night, Warwolf/Vince Marcus, Zombie"John Doe", many others); Witches (Jennifer Kale, Topaz)
Affiliations:
Deadpool, Exiter
(former familiar), the
Hood, Paladin
Detective
Gunyon (pawn);
briefly Invaders (WWII era, Captain
America, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner)
formerly Dame
Aramanthe, Basilisk,
Church of the Dark Father,
Clea,
Richard
M. Corbett, Joshua
Crow, Ruth Cummins,
Dansker,
Dr. Stephen Strange,
Leander Dyson, Gloria Hefford, Michael
Heron, Jennifer
Kale,
Spider-Man, Topaz, John Walker,
Zannarth;
Enemies: Agathon, Asmodeus, Basilisk, Belasco, Camarilla of the N'Garai, Chaos King (Mikaboshi), Richard M. Corbett, Joshua Crow, Jimmy Cruz, Dansker, the Dark Church, Walter Dean, Darkos Edge, Dirae, Dormammu, the Four, Harry Gotham, Baron Gothenvald (including zombies and poltergeists associated with him), Hellstorm, Iceni, Incarsicus, Harold "Hank" Johnson, Juggernaut (Serpent possessed), Kthara, Lilith (Mother of Demons), Lucifer, Mephisto, Merlin (or an aspect or doppelganger thereof), N'Garai, Nightbeast, Red Skull, Satan/Marduk Kurios/Trachos/Miles Gorney, Scorpion Queen and her offspring, Jason & Jennifer Silence, Baron Heinrich Zemo (WWII era), various zombies
Known Relatives:
"Satan"/Marduk
Kurios (father), Victoria
Wingate Hellstrom
(mother,
deceased), Hellstorm (brother);
Patsy
Walker (former sister-in-law);
Gene, Paul and Ruth Camber (false husband, son and daughter)
Aliases: Judith
Camber, the Devil's
Daughter, Julia, Mistress of the Basilisk, Satana the Damned,
Satana the Succubus;
"Queen of Hell" - a title within the
Akashik Record
Place of Birth: Fire Lake, Greentown, Massachusetts
Base of Operations:
mobile internationally;
formerly the Body
Orchard,
Alphabet City, Manhattan, New York
formerly a realm of Hell;
formerly Los Angeles, California
First Appearance: Vampire Tales#2 (October, 1973)
Powers/Abilities: Satana's demon heritage grants her a degree of superhuman strength (Class 10), durability, and other physical abilities. She likely possesses immunity or some degree of resistance to aging and conventional disease. The full range of Satana's superhuman powers remains unknown. She is capable of casting magical spells, but her limits in this area are uncertain. She can levitate herself off the ground, though she apparently cannot fly. She is able to strip away false images of others, laying bare their souls and forcing them to see themselves as they truly are. Satana can also perform solo teleports, but usually uses ancient burial grounds to act as portals.
Satana requires the draining
of souls to survive and she can only drain the souls from men,
not women. It is not known how many days she can go without
taking a soul. To do so, she usually kisses her victim as she
draws forth his soul, causing his body to shrivel. The soul would
then take the form (visible at least to Satana) of a butterfly-like
being, which she would grasp with her fingers. She would then
crush the butterfly form, seemingly causing it to disintegrate,
but actually absorbing psionic energy from the soul. After she
feeds on the power in a soul, the spirit is cast down into her
father's realm of Hell.
After spending time in Hell after her
death,
Satana learned that by consuming more souls than she needed, she
could increase her own power. She also learned that by
impregnating weapons with her body fluids, she could gain the
soul power of victims slain with those weapons. Further, by
marking a man as her servant, she could also gain the power from
souls slain by that man, using the above weapons.
Satana has extensive knowledge of black magical lore, which war further strengthened by her time spent in Hell following her death. She can project bolts of soulfire, similar to that used by Hellstorm or the Ghost Rider (Blaze/Zarathos), which causes intense psychic or spiritual pain, but can also be perceived by its target as heat or physical force if its wielder so wills it. She has added magic to technological devices, for instance utilizing a tracker of electromagnetic energy to locate a specific soul in Hell.
Satana was formerly bonded too an immensely powerful demon known as the Basilisk, which she could release to slaughter her foes and then return it to herself. However, each time she released the Basilisk, her control of it lessened.
Height: 5'7
Weight: 120
Eyes: Black with red highlights
Hair: Red
Other distinguishing features: Satana has had in the past incredibly long eyebrows, which extend above her head in the semblance of a devil's horns.
History:
(Marvel Spotlight#13(fb)/Hellstorm#2(fb)) - Satana is the second
daughter of the arch demon Marduk Kurios (who more commonly
referred to himself as Satan), and Victoria Wingate. Her father
had taken the human form of a Mr. Hellstrom to sire children on
Earth. Satana was born three years after her older brother,
Daimon, but while Daimon was also closer to his human mother,
Satana was definitely always daddy's little girl. For the first
six years of her life she lived in their mansion on Fire Lake.
Even as a toddler, Satana earned her father's affection by
killing birds or other such behavior. Both Satana and Daimon were
home schooled, as their father did not want them to be defiled by
the townfolk.
When Satana was six, her mother walked
in on a
ritual slaughter of a cat Satana was performing for her father.
Her mother was overcome by the horror of what was going on, and
when her husband revealed his true nature to her, she was driven
utterly insane. Their mother was taken to a mental institution,
while the children were split up to be placed in homes.
(Marvel Preview#7/2 (fb) - BTS) - The car carrying Satana disappeared en route. It was never found, nor were the driver, the young nurse who was escorting her, nor Satana herself.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#19) - Satana was taken to her father's realm of Hell. She was schooled in the use of her demonic powers, some of which inherited while others he granted to her. Kurios caused Satana's soul to be bonded to a powerful demon known as the Basilisk
(Marvel Preview#7 (fb) - BTS) - At ten years old, Satana was given her costume by Dame Aramanthe of Eleom
(Haunt of Horror#5 (fb) - BTS) - Satan presented Satana with her feline demonic familiar, Exiter.
(Marvel Premiere#27 (fb) - BTS) - Satana's began her tutelage under the ancient demon Dansker.
(Haunt of Horror#2/8 (fb) - BTS) - The demon Zannarth was forced to become Satana's companion and slave. One time she jokingly stole his soul, after which Zannarth began to resent her.
(Marvel Premiere#27 (fb)) - As part of a graduation day type of test, Satana was pitted against Dankser in a struggle that had the potential for death. Satana got in a few good strikes, surprising her master, but Dansker then focused more fully and easily humbled her. He did not strike the killing blow, but made it clear that he could have, and that he would always be her master.
(Haunt of Horror#2/8
(fb) - BTS) - Satana and Zannarth were banished from their
Hellish realm, apparently by the Four. Zannarth was sent to a
Netherworld and Satana was sent to Earth.
(Vampire Tales#2/7) - In Manhattan, Satana wandered the streets, where she attracted the attention of a would-be predator. The man followed her in the alley where he intended to have his way with her. As soon as they touched lips, Satana drained his life and left his desiccated corpse in the alley.
(Haunt of Horror#4 (fb)) - Satana felt something drawing her to the West Coast, possibly the powers of the Four, whom she believed to be responsible for her banishment.
(Vampire Tales#3) - Now in Los
Angeles, Satana
prevented a mob, whipped into a frenzy by a tirade from
politician Harry Gotham, from attacking a small group of the
Church of the Dark Father. At her word, the mob dispersed. Later,
after feeding on another man in an alley, she joined one of the
cultists, Ruth Cummins, at her apartment. Satana was surprised to
learn that Ruth had the mark of Satan on her shoulder, but when
she attempted to contact her father she found her summons blocked
by a spell of the Four.
Soon after, Darkos Edge and another
assassin,
sent by Gotham, broke into Ruth's apartment and attempted to kill
her, but ended up killing Ruth instead. Satana killed the unnamed
assassin, stole the soul from Edge, and then found Gotham and
took his soul as well.
(Haunt of Horror#2/6 (fb) - BTS) - Satana moved in with another member of the Church of the Dark Father, Gloria Hefford. Not long after she was joined by Exiter.
(Haunt of Horror#2/6) - Satana targeted, seduced, and feasted on the soul of Henry "Hank" Johnson, who was not having any luck at a single's bar. She then identified Rich Corbett as a suitable pawn to use against the Four. Seducing Corbett, she convinced him to assassinate Miles Gorney, who was apparently the leader of the human representatives of the Four. After she had sent Corbett off, however, she managed to cast a spell to observe the actions of these four, and learned that they needed a human sacrifice to complete their own spell. Too late she rushed to stop Corbett, and when he killed Gorney, the Four's spell was sealed, closing off the portal to Hell so that Satana could not return. Furious at her own stupidity, Satana drained the soul of Corbett, killing him.
(Haunt of Horror#2/8) - Satana
journeyed to the
Cave of the Seven Winds, from which she traveled to the
Netherworld where she hoped to be able to access her father's
Hell. En route, she encountered Zannarth, whom she coerced into
assisting her in her efforts. The Four sent a Nightbeast against
them, but Satana mesmerized it and enlisted it to her own service.
They were ambushed by another team of demons, whom they
overpowered before continuing their journey. The Nightbeast was
apparently destroyed in this second assault.
As they continued they found the corpse
of
Trachos, the former leader of the Four, killed by them for his
failures.
(Haunt of Horror#4) - Within the Netherworld, Satana and Zannarth were confronted by the remaining members of the Four. Zannarth was slain by Ellin, and Satana attempted to gain a brief respite by forcing the Four to see themselves as they truly were. However, rather than a momentary distraction, this caused the Four great agony, and they reverted to their human forms. Taking advantage of their weakness and surprise, Satana rapidly moved from one to another, kissing the three men and draining their souls. However, she was then confronted by the still living Trachos, who revealed himself to be none other than Miles Gorney. Laughing as he vanished, Gorney refused to answer any of Satana's questions. Nonetheless, she felt the barrier to Hell fade away. However, sensing that she would gain answers, and perhaps vengeance, on Earth, she headed back there.
(Haunt of Horror#4/3 (fb) - BTS) - A group of former soldiers, under the direction of Monsignor Jimmy Cruz, ambushed Satana, beating her brutally and leaving her for dead.
(Haunt of Horror#4/3) - As Satana
lay dying,
she tried to contact her father, but found the portal to his
realm once again closed. Exiter directed surgeon and former
priest Michael Heron into the alley to help Satana. When one of
the men, Arni Holder, a former Green Beret, came back to make
sure Satana was dead, Exiter slaughtered and consumed him. Heron
brought Satana back to his room, and Exiter brought her night
porter, on whom Satana fed to regain her strength and heal her
wounds.
Upon awakening, Satana attempted to feed
on
Heron as well, but found him able to resist her call--the first
ever to do so. Cruz himself led a squad to kill Satana, but they
ended up having to settle for kidnapping Heron when Satana
escaped them and the police began to approach. Satana tracked one
of Cruz's men and forced him to tell him Cruz's location before
she consumed his soul. Exiter went on ahead, but was slaughtered
by the N'Garai, summoned by Cruz.
Satana approached Cruz silently, so that
he
had not time to summon demons, but rather used his gun against
her. She dodged Cruz's bullets then slew him and ate his foul
soul.
(Haunt of Horror#5/4 (fb)) - Satana parted ways with Heron, but gave him the Azshiran, a ring that could protect him from any demon born of Satan.
(Haunt of Horror#5/4) - Continuing
her search
for Gorney, Satana slew Walter Dean, a Hollywood producer/director
who had aspired to membership in the Camarilla of the N'Garai.
She was then confronted by the demon Agathon, who showed her that
Gorney had captured Heron and cut off his hand. Agathon blasted
Satana unconscious and then brought her before Gorney. Awakening,
Satana impaled Agathon on one of Gorney's structures and then
took out Gorney's servants with the aid of Heron, who was
mortally wounded in the process. Satana recognized Gorney as her
father, Satan, as no one else could have injured a man wearing
the Azshiran.
Satan revealed that it was all just a
test to
prove Satana's power and loyalty, but she turned her back on him
by allowing Heron to die without her consuming his soul. Furious,
Satan banished her to Earth until the time of her death.
(Marvel
Spotlight I#24) - Gloria
Hefford
unwittingly summoned and was possessed by the demon-mother
Kthara, which attracted the attention of both Satana and Daimon
Hellstrom. As Gloria, Kthara duped Daimon into believing that
Satana was the threat, and when he confronted Satana, Kthara used
her spells to goad him into combat and to enhance his power.
Satana was consumed in Daimon's hellfire, but she was protected
and restored by the Basilisk. She arrived in time to find Kthara
about to slay Daimon in a ritual sacrifice that would allow all
of her ravagers to be free to claim the Earth. Satana freed
Daimon and the two struggled against Kthara and her demon-hordes,
but even they had not the power to stop her. Finally, Satana
summoned the Basilisk, which slaughtered Kthara and left Satana
drained. Daimon attempted to apologize, but
Satana
instead cursed him and told him that should their paths cross
again she would take his soul and laugh at the taking of it.
(Marvel Premiere#27) - Satana detected magical energies which drew her north to the town of Chandler, California, where she observed a group of men trying to burn the witch Deborah Hirsch. However, Deborah turned out to be possessed by Dansker, and the attacks upon her merely allowed Dansker to take control. Dansker blasted the crowd, killing the people and stunning Satana, and then prepared to perform a spell which would allow him to travel to Earth physically. Satana overpowered Dansker's limited form and summoned the Basilisk to slay him.
(Marvel Preview#7 (fb) - BTS) - Realizing that slaying Satana outright would release the Basilisk from within her, which might destroy the entire world, the Camarilla of the N'Garai conceived of another plan. They cast a powerful spell which transformed Satana into a mortal woman, Judith Camber, instilling her with false memories of her past life with her family. However, within an hour of the transformation, the Basilisk rebelled against these constraints and slew Judith's family.
(Marvel Preview#7) - "Judith" returned home to find her family dead. While she was crushed by this trauma, it allowed Satana's personality and form to become dominant for brief periods. While Camber was confused by her dual memories and personalities, the Camarilla succeeded in extracting the spirit of Satana from Camber, and planned to sacrifice it to the N'Garai. However, Camber, realizing that doing so would end her own false existence, tracked the Camarilla to the Church of Dis, and unleashed the Basilisk. The arch-demon destroyed the entire church and slew the Camarilla. Satana regained her true form and memory, and destroyed the soul of Abelard before it could pass on to any final resting place.
(Marvel Team-Up I#80, 81) - Dr. Strange was possessed by a wolf demon as a result of a curse of the Basilisk. Satana traveled to Strange's mansion and offered her assistance. Spider-Man brought the possessed Strange back to the sanctum, where Satana cast a spell that transported the trio to an astral plane, where they fought a legion of the Basilisk's demons as they edged towards Strange's soul. Satana summoned every erg of her power to destroy the demons and shatter the casing containing Strange's soul. However, the effort left her spent and the Basilisk broke free from her and struck her down from behind with its sword. However, as Satana died, so, too, did the Basilisk, which had become intrinsically attached to her soul.
BTS - In death, Satana returned to
her father's
realm of Hell.
(Hellstorm# 8(fb) - BTS) -
Reverend Joshua Crow
began having dreams in which the lord spoke to him. He had
visions of innocent souls trapped in Hell. The voice said that
the power to release them was in Crow's hands--and the voice
charged him with the task of rescuing them from the eternal
fires, and giving them a second chance. Crow followed the
instructions of voice and went to New York. From there he began
to use his power to summon these souls from Hell and placed them
in the bodies of people in a seemingly hopeless comatose state.
Although he hinted as if he were resurrecting the souls of the
comatose victims, he knew he was bringing souls from Hell.
However, he believed he was harrowing Hell, just as Christ had
done, bringing God's mercy to the Damned.
Crow performed six such "resurrections"
over the following three weeks. However, it was actually the
Devil who had spoken to Crow, and the souls he had reincarnated
were "lightning rods for evil"--focal points which Hell
would use as anchors to their reality as it tried to take them
back. Through them, it would be able to manifest itself, in small
ways at first, escalating as it gained strength.
One of theose resurrected was Satana,
who took
the form of a woman named Julia.
(Hellstorm#10) - As Crow prayed for forgiveness, Julia came to thank him. She planted a big kiss on him, and then revealed herself as Satana. She drained his soul and sent it down into the abyss...
(Hellstorm#12) - Satana set
herself up inside
the Body Orchard, a deconsecrated church in which she kept a
large number of her victims. She kept them chained to the walls
and ceiling, and wrapped them in a spell which continually
regenerated their lives--life that Satana constantly gnawed at.
In Times Square, Satana posed as a
streetwalker, consuming the soul of a man who thought he was
going to get some lovin'.
(Hellstorm#20) - In
the Body Orchard, Satana contemplated her latest plot. By eating
more souls than she needed she had begun to amass large amounts
of power; power which she might use to take over Hell.
She was confronted by Detective Gunyon,
a man
who had lost his job (and much of his mind) after having
Hellstorm forcibly rip information from his mind. Gunyon sought
to kill her to punish Hellstorm, but Satana instead took control
of him. She branded him with a magic symbol, such that every act
he committed would be attributable to her. She also gave him a
box of bullets, each impregnated with certain of her body fluids
and inscribed with her mark. Her instruction was for him to use
them to commit mass murder.
(Hellstorm#21 - BTS) - Stephen Loss whipped himself with barbed wire for his dark dreams about Satana.
(Hellstorm#21) - Satana and Gunyon
became
lovers. Well, that's not quite accurate. He
loved her.
She was just tonguing out his soul a sliver at a time.
Meanwhile, she contemplated her plan.
Those
shot by Gunyon with the bullets she had given him would have
their souls consigned to Satana, and she would eventually grow
powerful enough to challenge the supernatural supremacy of Heaven
and Hell.
(Witches#1 (fb) - BTS) - Satana apparently perished again under unknown circumstances.
(Witches#1) - Satana was returned
to Earth by Dr.
Strange to serve as the representative from the underworld to assist
Jennifer Kale and Topaz against the Hellphyr.
(Witches#2) - Learning the reason for her return, Satana mocked Strange and her would-be allies. Later, while participating in a training exercise under Wong, she accidentally struck down Jennifer Kale, leading to a near confrontation between the two. All three remained unaware as Lilith sent a newborn Lilin to assault them.
(Witches#3) - Satana unwittingly leapt into the path of one of Jennifer Kale's magical bolts in mid-battle with the Lilin and was knocked out. After Kale destroyed the Lilin, Satana attacked Kale, and then taunted her until she fled, refusing to work alongside her anymore.
(Witches#4) - Satana and Topaz joined Kale against the Hellphyr, and she was confronted by her father, who revealed he had orchestrated the whole thing. Satan offered her a chance to rule alongside him if she allowed the Hellphyr to destroy all magic-users on Earth, but she turned her back on him and helped destroy the Hellphyr. Afterwards, she joined with Kale and Topaz in refusing to surrender the Tome of Zhered-Na to Dr. Strange, instead leaving with the pair.
(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#1 (Director's Cut)) - Satana was revealed to have been recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos unit.
(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#6) - Satana was among the Commandos who launched an assault on the forces of Merlin.
(Marvel Tarot#1 - BTS) - The First Tarot showed Ian McNee there were two Devil cards, one of them was Satana, the other Daimon. McNee noted Satana tried out personalties like some women try on shoes. He continued that his spies in the splinter realms had revealed trouble was brewing in the lake of fire, chances are Satana and Daimon were involved.
(Legion of Monsters: Satana#1) - Satana cast the soul of Jason Silence down to Hell as her monthly tithe to her father.
(Legion of Monsters: Satana#1) -
The next month, after consuming the soul of a man on the streets,
Satana, back in her classic costume, returned to the Body Orchard where
she was trapped within the Electric Pentagram by Jennifer Silence,
Jason's twin sister. Using rituals learned from the Fur Journal,
Jennifer had Satana write a contract in blood to bring Jason back to
Earth alive and unharmed, and not to harm any of the Silences or their
friends, family, business relations, etc.
Upon completion of the contract, Satana
was released from the Electric Pentagram, after which she slapped down
Jennifer and forced her to reveal where she had learned how to capture
her. Examining the Fur Journal, Satana observed the diagrams of her
written by Stephen Loss (though she knew not who had written them) and
then she returned the Electric Pentagram to the Fur Journal. Binding
Jennifer to a man near-death in her Body Orchard, Satana magically
enhanced an electromagnetic sensing device to allow her to track Jason
Silence's soul, then traveled to Hell to recover Jason. In the process
she was attacked by the Scorpion Queen, who had possibly taken Jason's
soul for herself, and slew the Scorpion Queen and her
offspring. Satana then returned Jason to Earth,
fulfilling the contract, but then killed him again and added Jennifer
Silence to her Body Orchard.
(Ghost Rider VI#33 - BTS) - Deacon
and Blackout considered her as a possible agent in their fight against
Ghost Rider (Blaze).
(New Avengers I#53) - The Eye of Agamotto appeared to Satana as it considered her a possible replacement for Doctor Strange as Sorcerer Supreme.
(Dark Reign: The Hood#3) - The Hood (Parker Robbins) met with Satana to discuss controlling the demonic power he associated with the cloak. Satana advised that the Hood no longer wear the red cloak anymore. She desired the mystical cloak for herself, but the Hood would not let her have it.
(Dark Reign: The Hood#4) - The Hood had Satana set up a workshop in one of his safehouses, Satana mystically controlling several of the Hood's villain army to help move stuff in. The Hood spoke more with Satana regarding Dormammu, but only after she instigated a protective spell that prevented anyone else knowing what they said.
(Dark Reign: The Hood#5) - After witnessing the Hood manifest a flaming cloak about him, Satana informed the Hood that he had already bonded with Dormammu and that the cloak was now only a token.
(Deadpool Team-Up#892 (fb)) - After dispatching a minor demon, Satana was swindled out of her soul at a nearby casino by five geeky guys (actually the demons Asmodeus, Belasco, Dormammu, Lucifer, and Mephisto) who sought to marry her.
(Deadpool Team-Up#892) - Satana sought the aid of Deadpool, who went to kill the five would-be nerds only to have them reveal their true selves. Later, Deadpool and Satana married to break the original contract where Satana took part of the merc's soul to seal the bond. She suffused Deadpool's sword blades with hellfire and he was able to apparently kill Asmodeus, thereby restoring Satana's soul to her. She later left Deadpool without consumating the marriage.
(Girl Comics#3/5) - Satana took the soul of another man.
Satana took the soul of a teenaged boy, who wanted to lose his virginity.
(Chaos War: Chaos King#1) - Satana was amongst those who fell in the onslaught of the Chaos King's attack on Hell.
(Heroes for Hire III#2) - Investigating an influx of powerful handguns that could penetrate armor, Paladin called in Satana to the City Morgue, where she revealed the true nature of the weapon as a demonica fused to the dead man. She identified it as a Soulcutter that harvested souls to the point that it could animate the owner's corpse. Satana disintegrated the body before the gun could fire at Paladin.
(Heroes for Hire III#8) - Paladin again called in Satana and she performed a naked spell of redaction that made the rest of the demonica inert, but needed Paladin to protect her while casting the spell. She then teleported away.
(Thunderbolts II#155) - Lack of magical defense was found to be a weakness with Luke Cage's new Thunderbolts. Dr. Strange helped Cage take Satana on board as a occult specialist. Dr. Strange gave Cage a mystical talisman should Satana slip into her demonic mode.
(Thunderbolts II#156) - Luke Cage introduced Satana to fellow (incredulous) Thunderbolts, Ghost, Juggernaut, Moonstone. She had already inscribed the Worldsong markings into Man-Thing. She began to seduce the other three Thunderbolts until Cage triggered the talisman to rein her in. All six then teleported to time-traveling but haunted Gothenvald Castle, Germany, where they faced a mystical attack of Dirae, zombies and poltergeists.
(Thunderbolts II#157) - Satana spewed the Flame of Animus Infernus to eliminate the supernatural assault and identified where Baron Gothenvald was steering the attack, stating that he had to be separated from the castle to stop further attacks. The Thunderbolts stormed the castle, but Satana stayed behind, her energies depleted. Gothenvald set loose the Incarsicus, which shrouded the Thunderbolts in personal nightmares, but Satana's timely intervention saved them. Gothenvald escaped. The group (without Cage and Juggernaut) then joined Songbird, Mach V and Fixer with the Thunderbolts' B-team ("Underbolts" - Boomerang, Centurious, Mr. Hyde, Shocker, Troll) in Najaf, Iraq, to stop a zombie-led riot.
(Thunderbolts II#158) - Satana used the mystical energies from the mass graveyard to construct a magical barrier to stop the reanimation of the dead, but the attack was not mystical in nature. Centurious and Hyde stopped the transmission. The Serpent-possessed Juggernaut breakout from the Raft forced the Thunderbolts to return to base. Satana used a catatonia spell to subdue the prisoners still left on the island.
(Thunderbolts II#160) - In the wake of the Raft breakout, Satana meditated and later helped calm Man-Thing while the world was in the grip of fear by the Asgardian Serpent. Satana, Moonstone, Mach V, Ghost, Songbird, and Man-Thing transported to Chicago to stop the Juggernaut, but Swamp-Thing transported away, ascending to the next level of existence initiated by the Worldsong inscription. Satana recognized his potential as more than just a transporter and easily countered Moonstone's aggression. Satana scribed protective runes on the Ghost so that he could phase in and identify what was possessing Juggernaut, but was expelled, despite Satana's guidance.
(Thunderbolts II#161) - Able only to transport herself, Satana returned to the Raft to tell Warden Walker what had happened. Satana began tapping darker magic like that encountered with Baron Gothenvald to develop new a teleportation transport that also combined technology. Thunderbolts Tower then vanished including Satana, the Fixer, and the Thunderbolts B-Squad.
(Thunderbolts II#162) -
Thunderbolts Tower reappeared at Lake Michigan to help the other
Thunderbolts stop an invasion of mutated water creatures. Satana
unleashed fire from her mouth to consume the creatures. Satana then
aided Moonstone to have Man-Thing absorb all the creatures, becoming a
giant Man-Thing in the process, much to Satana's excitement, and helped
Man-Thing spawn a consciousness bulb from his fiery remains. Satana
joined the the B-Squad (Mr. Hyde, Boomerang, Centurius, Troll), Fixer
and Moonstone as they escaped dimensionally in Thunderbolts Tower.
(Thunderbolts II#163) - Man-Thing's new unpredictable nature threw them back in time; now in the WWII era (1943) in the German alps, Satana helped quell Mr. Hyde's rage with food and pleasuring succubus spell, and also reveled in the Man-Thing's growing new form. When Nazi ground forces attacked, Satana released Hyde upon them, summoning demonic forces to bring those the German soldiers had killed to fiery life. Then the Invaders (Captain America, Namor the Sub-Mariner) arrived.
(Thunderbolts II#163.1) - Meanwhile, Ghost,
Cage and Mockingbird checked ancient burial grounds that Satana used
for portals, charging ancient spirits to protect her hideaways.
(Thunderbolts II#164) - The Nazis defeated, Moonstone suggested that they blend in and take on contemporary disguises, Satana doing so for herself and Boomerang. Calling themselves the American Thunderbolts, they agreed to help rescue the Human Torch from Baron Heinrich Zemo's base nearby. Flirting with Namor, she was unconcerned about starting a new timeline as Man-Thing could cross dimensions. The Thunderbolts then checked on the swamp-walker and Satana watched on as Mr. Hyde threw the growing creature corpses.
(Thunderbolts II#165) - Attacking the Nazi base, Satana tended to the dehydrated Namor, taking him into Thunderbolts Tower. She called on ancient Atlantean magic, the spell requiring intimate physical contact to be fully effective. Namor complied. The two returned just as the American Thunderbolts and Captain America destroyed the base. Satana and the others rushed back to Thunderbolts Tower and it disappeared again.
(Thunderbolts II#167 (fb)) - Arriving in 1888 in London, Mr. Hyde and Satana separated from the main group. Satana was captured by ancient spirits called Iceni that sought out warrior women for their war. Satana refused and was help captive, but their bloody trail paralleled that of the Jack the Ripper murders.
(Thunderbolts II#166) - The other
Thunderbolts, again
disguised, helped the local police with the murder investigations,
thinking Satana may be involved. Mr. Hyde hunted down the Curse-Keeper
that kept Satana bound. Finally the other Thunderbolts arrived.
(Thunderbolts II#167) - Overcoming the initial misunderstanding, Satana was freed and relished consuming the remaining Iceni souls. Soon after and aboard Thunderbolts Tower, they traveled back in time again, this time to the age of Camelot.
Comments: Created by Roy Thomas and John Romita.
Satana made her debut in
October, 1973, so this profile (completed in October 2003)
celebrates her 30 year anniversary! Time for that Warren Ellis
Satana series we were promised a decade ago! I would love to see
him write a multiple issue war between Satana and Hellstorm for
the rule of Hell, culminating with the return of their father,
Marduk Kurios, reborn through Lavoisin, and attempting to take
back his domain.
Hell, yeah!
I'd be happy with Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Steve Gerber, or other such demented geniuses.
The recent story by Robin Furth was a welcome return to the Satana we know and love.
The dates are topical, but Marvel Team-Up I#81 list birth and death years of Satana, indicating that she was 24 at that time, meaning that Daimon was 27 then. How much "Marvel Time" has passed since then is difficult to say.
Satana also appears in Marvel Spotlight I#22, but it appears to just be a form adopted or conjured by Madame Swabada, rather than Satana herself.
Most of Satana's really good pictures are from the black and white titles.
The
exact chronology of
Satana's magazine and regular comic appearances is uncertain.
Marvel Preview#7 details some of the
delays
and other problems with publication that hindered Satana's
success. Haunt of Horror was cancelled with issue #5. Number
eight was to introduce Satana to a significant male, and
Claremont had already written the next two issues.
Not
quite sure why Dormammu and Satana didn't mention anything in
Deadpool Team-Up after their dealing with the Hood. That said, her
hairstyle in Deadpool Team-Up matches that of the Witches series, so
perhaps DTU comes before the Hood saga.
--Grendel Prime
Sledge Hammer #1 featured
a tv horror host
Satana (ala Elvira), but as a tie-in to a non-Marvel tv show it's
almost certainly not continuity, and even if it somehow was, it
was only an impersonator and not Satana herself.
--Ronald Byrd
Thanks to Ronald Byrd for pointing out that Satana's "false" daughter Ruth Camber was not mentioned under relatives.
Satana was revealed as one of the mystics seen in the Eye of Agamotto's vision in New Avengers I#53 in Avengers, Thor & Captain America: Official Index to the Marvel Universe#15 (2011).
Thanks to James Cope for correcting a few appearances in the sub-profiles. Thanks to Ron Fredricks for cleaning up the main and Witches image.
Profile by Snood (and updated by Grendel Prime (Dark Reign onward)).
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
Dame Aramanthe of Eleom
Presumably a demon agent of Satan (Kurios), she made a cloak for Satana when she was ten years old, growing up in Hell. Nothing else is known of her, though the cloak was later returned to Satana on Earth, by Leander Dyson.
--Marvel Preview#7
I don't know if her name has any real significance, but a Dame usually refers to the wife of a Knight (or a woman who has achieved Knighthood), and Aramanthe is a dragon from the "Tea with White Dragons" work of fiction, about which I know nothing.
Leander Dyson
Seemingly the owner of a
small curio shop across the street from the Camarilla's base, Leander
found the weakened Satana--trapped in the form of Judith Camber--and
brought her back to his shop. He acted surprised when she assaulted
him, barely stopping herself from taking his soul, but he then
explained to her who she really was, and why she had to stop the
Camarilla immediately. When she returned to her true form, naked to the
world, Leander gave her a cloak, which was apparently the same cloak
the Dame Aramanthe had given her when she was a youth.
Leander's true nature is unclear, but he is possibly a demon, presumably an agent (or a former agent) of "Satan" (Marduk Kurios)
--Marvel Preview#7
Harold "Hank"
Johnson
He was a full-time field
representative of the Orgeon
Manufacturing Company covering the Southern California area, and
part-time wife cheater for the same district. He was also pushing
forty, partially bald, and overweight and underdeveloped, which made it
harder for him to hustle a date than it used to be. He preferred San
Diego, Santa Barbara, or even San Jose, where he could find bored wives
and lonely widows, to LA, where he had yet to find a single girl who
looked older than 18 years. He was about to give up on the club he was
at when a fiery redhead with cat-like eyes tapped him on the shoulder,
told him she'd been watching him, and asked him to go for a walk. He
immediately followed her outside, and after a short walk, she
recommended they stop in a nearby alley where she could get to know him
better. The woman pulled him close, whispering, "Kiss me." Trembling
with anticipation, Henry complied.
Two second later he tried to scream! It
all went
very quickly. The skin on his face dried and collapsed in wrinkles and
folds, the flesh on his bones seemed to wither and flake, and in ten
seconds, "Hank" was reduced from a man to a desiccated corpse that
really resembled nothing remotely human.
The woman, Satana, rose up from what had
been his
face, and pulled the small, squirming butterfly that had been his soul
from her teeth, and let it go, laughing as it fluttered away.
--Haunt of Horror#2/6
Images:
Witches#2, p3, panel 2 (crouching)
Dark Reign: The Hood#3, p5, pan5 (levitating)
Thunderbolts II#163, p16-17, pan5 (demonic face)
Thunderbolts II#165, p3 (WWII disguise)
Thunderbolts II#166, p11, pan4 (flying over London)
Vampire Tales#2 (October, 1973) -
Roy Thomas (writer/editor), John Romita (artist)
Marvel Spotlight I#13 (January, 1974) - Gary Friedrich (writer), Herb
Trimpe (pencils), Frank Chiaramonte (inks), Roy Thomas (editor)
Vampire Tales#3 (February, 1974) - Gerry Conway (writer), Esteban
Maroto (artist), Roy Thomas (editor)
Haunt of Horror#2 (July, 1974) - Gerry Conway (writer), Pablo Marcos
(artist), Roy Thomas (editor)
Story 8: Gerry Conway (writer), Enrique
Romero (artist)
Haunt of Horror#4 (November, 1974) - Tony Isabella (writer), Enrique
Romero (artist), Tony Isabella (editor)
Story 3: Chris Claremont (writer), Pat
Broderick (pencils), Crusty Bunkers (inks)
Haunt of Horror#5 (January, 1975) - Chris Claremont (writer), George
Evans (artist), Don McGregor (editor)
Marvel Spotlight I#24 (October, 1975) - Chris Claremont (writer), Sal
Buscema (pencils), Bob McLeod (inks), Len Wein (editor)
Marvel Premiere#27 (December, 1975) - Chris Claremont (writer), The
Tribe (artists), Marv Wolfman (editor)
Marvel Preview#7 (Summer 1976) - Chris Claremont (writer), Vicente
Alcazar (artist), John Warner (editor)
Marvel Team-Up I#80-81 (April-May, 1979) - Chris Claremont &
John Warner (#81) (writer), Mike Vosburg (pencils), Gene Day (#80)
& Steve Leialoha (#81) (inks), Al Milgrom (editor)
Hellstorm#2 (May, 1993) - Rafael Nieves (writer), Michael Bair
(artist), Fabian Nicieza (editor)
Hellstorm#8 (November, 1993) - Len Kaminski (writer), Peter Gross
(artist), Fabian Nicieza (editor)
Hellstorm#10 (January, 1994) - Len Kaminski (writer), Peter Gross
(artist), Fabian Nicieza (editor)
Hellstorm#12 (March, 1994) - Warren Ellis (writer), Leonardo Manco
(artist), Marie Javins (editor)
Hellstorm#20-21 (November-December, 1994) - Warren Ellis (writer),
Leonardo Manco & Martin Chaplin (artists), Marie Javins (editor)
Witches#1-4 (August - September 2004) - Brian Patrick Walsh (writer),
Mike Deodato Jr. (#1-2) & Will Conrad (#3-4) (artist), John
Miesegaes (editor)
Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#1 (Directors Cut) (January, 2006) - Keith
Giffen (writer), Eduardo Francisco (penciler), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#6 (May, 2006) - Keith Giffen (writer),
Mike Norton (penciler), Chris Aucoin & Norman Lee (inkers),
Mark Paniccia (editor)
Marvel Tarot#1 (2007) - David Sexton (writer, pencils, inks) Jeff Youngquist (editor)
Legion of Monsters: Satana#1 (August, 2007)
- Robin Furth (writer), Kalman Andrasofszky (art), Ralph Macchio
(consulting editor), John Barber (editor)
Ghost Rider VI#33 (2009) - Jason Aaron (writer), Tony Moore (artist),
Axel Alonso (editor)
New Avengers I#53 (July, 2009) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Billy Tan (pencils), Matt Banning (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Dark Reign: The Hood#3-5 (September-November, 2009) - Jeff Parker
(writer), Kyle Hotz (artist), Bill Rosemann (editor)
Deadpool Team-Up#892 (August, 2010) - Dave Lapham (writer), Shawn
Crystal (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
Girl Comics#3/5 (September, 2010) - Kelly Sue Deconnick (writer), Adriana Melo (pencils), Mariah Benes (inks), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
Chaos War: Chaos King#1 (January, 2011) - Brandon Montclare (writer), Michael Wm. Kaluta (art), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Heroes
for Hire III#2 (March, 2011) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers),
Brad Walker (pencils), Andrew Hennessy (inks), Bill Rosemann (editor)
Thunderbolts II#156 (June, 2011) - Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker
(pencils), Jason Gorder & Kev Walker (inks), Tom Brennan
(editor)
Thunderbolts II#157 (July, 2011) - Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker
& Declan Shalvey (pencils), Jason Gorder & Declan
Shalvey (inks), Tom Brennan (editor)
Heroes
for Hire III#8 (August, 2011) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
(writers), Brad Walker (pencils), Andrew Hennessy & John Livesay
(inks), Bill Rosemann (editor)
Thunderbolts II#158 (August, 2011) - Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker
(art), Tom Brennan (editor)
Thunderbolts II#160-161 (September-October, 2011) - Jeff Parker
(writer), Declan Shalvey (art), Tom Brennan (editor)
Thunderbolts
II#162 (October, 2011) - Jeff Parker (writer), Valentine De Landro
& Matthew Southworth (art), Tom Brennan (editor)
Thunderbolts II#163-164 (November-December, 2011) - Jeff Parker
(writer), Kev Walker (art), Tom Brennan (editor)
Thunderbolts II#165 (January, 2011) - Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker
(pencils), Terry Pallot (inks), Tom Brennan (editor)
Thunderbolts II#166-167 (January-February, 2012) - Jeff Parker
(writer), Declan Shalvey (art), Tom Brennan (editor)
First Posted: 10/19/2003
Last updated: 07/01/2022
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