Eternals: The Herod Factor Vol 1 1

Eternals: The Herod Factor Vol 1 #1
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Art by: Mark Texeira
Release Date	September 3, 1991
Cover Date	November, 1991
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Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "The Herod Factor"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Roy Thomas Dann Thomas
Penciler(s)	Mark Texeira
Inker(s)	Bob McLeod Christopher Ivy Mark McKenna Ian Akin Sam de la Rosa
Colorist(s)	Mike Thomas Dana Moreshead
Letterer(s)	Jean Simek
Editor(s)	Terry Kavanagh

 He is gone, Ikaris...he and Damian, as if they never were. 

—Karkas

Appearing in "The Herod Factor"

Featured Characters:

• Eternals
  • Ikaris (Main story and flashback)
  • Thena (Main story and flashback)
  • Makkari
  • Sprite
  • Phastos
  • Khoryphos
  • Sersi
  • Zuras (Only in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

• Ransak
• Karkas
• Kro (Main story and flashback)
• Yrdisis
• Deborah and Donald Ritter (First appearance) (Origin revealed)

Antagonists:

• Dr. Damian (Death)
• unnamed mutate/Ajak (Main story and flashback) (Death)
• Deviants
  • Haag (First appearance)
  • Brother Visara (First appearance) (Death)

Other Characters:

• Geraldo Santos (Death)
• Jack Kalen (Death)
• Jaycie Kalen (Death)
• Sylvia Pomeroy (reporter) (First and only known appearance)
• Vic Rhodes (Death) (Mentioned)
• Janet Rhodes (Death) (Mentioned)
• Ghaur (Only in flashback)
• Celestials (Only in flashback)
• Mrs. Ritter (Only in flashback)

Races:

• Eternals
• Deviants
• Humans
• Eternal/Deviant Hybrids (First appearance)
• Celestials

Locations:

• Earth
  • Olympia
  • Lemuria
  • United States of America
    • California (Main story and flashback)
      • Los Angeles (Main story and flashback)
        • San Pablo High School
    • Pennsylvania (Mentioned)
      • Scranton (Mentioned)
    • New York State
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
    • Rocky Mountains
  • Peru
    • City of the Space Gods (Destruction)
  • Babylon of 2,500 years ago (Only in flashback)
  • Vietnam (Only in flashback)
  • Earth's Polar Wastes
    • Pyramid of the Winds

Items:

• Energy-gloves (Only in flashback)
• Brain-mines
• Dispersatron

Vehicles:

• Eternal I.L.V. (Inertia-Less Vehicle)

Synopsis for "The Herod Factor"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• This story contains a few continuity errors, including a reference in a flashback to how the Uni-Mind, which had left Earth in Avengers #248, had returned briefly to destroy the Deviant priestlord Ghaur in Eternals (Vol. 2) #12. In actuality, the Uni-Mind that defeated Ghaur was a different one than the Uni-Mind that had left for space.
  • Since those two Uni-Minds were different, how and why Ajak returned to Earth after he left for space as part of that first Uni-Mind was not actually revealed in this story.
• In that same flashback, Phastos reminded the other Eternals of how the Celestials' Third Host had recently come to Earth. It was actually the Fourth Host.
• Yrdisis is depicted as being blue-skinned when her skin is actually green.
• Thena's statement that her twins were conceived during the "so-called Vietnamese War" should be considered a topical reference as per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616.

See Also

• 4 image(s) from Eternals: The Herod Factor Vol 1 1

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