Marvel Tarot Vol 1 1

Marvel Tarot Vol 1 #1

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Art by: Marko Djurdjevic

Release Date

August 1, 2007

Cover Date

August, 2007

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

Joe Quesada

Is the universe so screwed up that it can't even ask the right wizard for help?

—Ian McNee

Appearing in "The Marvel Tarot"

Featured Characters:

Ian McNee

Tarot Characters:

Bone Sword - Ace of Swords
Serpent Crown - Ace of Cups
Black Mirror - Ace of Wands
Ebon Rose - Ace of Pentacles
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) - The Magician (9 out of 10 times)
Ian McNee - The Magician (1 out of 10 times)
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
Agatha Harkness - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
Storm (Ororo Munroe) - The High Priestess (1/3 of the time)
Morgan Le Fay - The Empress
Naga/Nagala (Referenced) - The Emperor (1/2 of the time)
Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) - The Emperor (1/2 of the time)
Modred the Mystic - The Hierophant
Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) - The Lovers
Devil-Slayer (Eric Simon Payne) - The Chariot
Golem (Statue) - Strength
Living Mummy (N'Kantu) - The Hermit
Margali Szardos, Jimaine Szardos, Destiny (Irene Adler) - Wheel of Fortune
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) - Justice (1/2 of the time)
Magik (Illyana Rasputin) - Justice (1/2 of the time)
Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) - The Hanged Man
Vampire by Night (Nina Price) - Death
Topaz - Temperance
Satana - The Devil (1/2 of the time)
Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom) - The Devil (1/2 of the time)
Hellcat (Patsy Walker) - The Tower
Jennifer Kale - The Star
Dream Weaver (Barbara Robb) - The Moon (1/2 of the time)
Sleepwalker - The Moon (1/2 of the time)
Janus/Golden Angel - The Sun
Cadaver (Cody Fleischer) - Judgement
Man-Thing (Theodore Sallis) - The World

Other Characters:

Secret Defenders (Mentioned)
CG Jung (Referenced)
Enoch (Referenced)
Plato (Referenced)
Paracelsus (Referenced)
Emanuel Swedenborg (Referenced)
Oshtur (Mentioned)
Hoggoth (Referenced)
Old Ones (Referenced)
- Asteroth (Referenced)
- Azotheroth (Referenced)
- Lloigoroth (Referenced)
- N'Gabthoth (Referenced)
- Slorioth (Referenced)
- Yog-Sothoth (Referenced)
Gaea (Mentioned)
Set (Mentioned)
Chthon (Mentioned)
Brona the Enchanter (Referenced)
"Architect who had built the Rainbow Bridge" (Referenced)
Cyttorak (Referenced)
Agammon (Referenced)
Asura (Referenced)
Seraphim (Referenced)
Watoomb (Referenced)
Sorcerers Supreme (Mentioned)
- Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Zhered-Na (Mentioned)
- Saraswati of Akah Ma'at (Mentioned)
- Ayesha (Mentioned)
- Hermes Trismegistus (Mentioned)
- Aged Genghis (Mentioned)
- Zoroaster (Mentioned)
- Salome (Semiramis) (Mentioned)
- King Solomon (Mentioned)
- Balkis of Sheba (Mentioned)
- Triumvirate (Mentioned)
  - Thales the Milesian (Mentioned)
  - Pythagoras of Samos (Mentioned)
  - Empedocles of Agrigentum (Mentioned)
  - Pherecydes of Syros (Mentioned)
- Caius of Lacedaemons (Mentioned)
- Zhang Jiao (Mentioned)
- Merlin (Mentioned)
- Ancient One (Yao) (Mentioned)
Ikonn (Referenced)
Raggadorr (Referenced)
Ashake (Mentioned)
Vishanti (Mentioned)
Rintrah
"Elder races" (Elderspawn) (Referenced)
- Set's
  - Serpent-Men (Referenced)
- Oshtur's
  - Bird-Men of Akah Ma'at (Referenced)
- Chthon's
  - N'Garai (Referenced)
  - Ape Men (Referenced)
  - Man-Bats of Ur-Xanarrh (Referenced)
  - Harpies (Referenced)
  - Goblins (Referenced)
  - Nightgaunts (Referenced) (possibly)
  - Wolf Men of Valusia (Referenced)
    - Wolf Men (Referenced)
      - HELLhound (Garmr) (Referenced)
      - Bloodhound (Lycaon) (Referenced)
      - Wolven Warlocks (Referenced)
        Night Beast (Gaueko) (Referenced)
      - WolfDemon (Varcolac) (Referenced)
Garm (Referenced)
Hercules (Referenced)
Angerboda (Referenced)
Fenris Wolf (Referenced)
Midgard Serpent (Referenced)
Get of Set
- Sligguth (Name only)
- Dragon of the Moon (Name only)
- Phorcys (Name only)
- Ceto (Name only) (Mate to Phorcys)
- Tartessus (Name only)
- Yamata no Orochi (Name only)
- Damballah (Name only)
- Ishiti (Name only)
- Serpent Men (Name only)
- Ophions (Name only)
- Man Serpents (Name only)
- Zirnitra (Name only)
- Sirens (Name only)
- Scylla (Name only)
- Varcolac (Name only) (Mate to Echidna)
- Echidna (Name only)
- Typhon (Name only) (Mate to Echidna)
- Graeae (Name only)
- Gorgons (Name only)
- Angerboda (Name only)
- Chimera (Name only)
- Cerberus (Name only)
- Maralith (Name only)
- Naga (Name only) (Mate to Maralith)
- Nemean Lion (Name only)
- Lernean Hydra (Name only)
- Merro (Name only)
- Llyra (Name only) (Mate to Merro)
- Zmey Gorynych (Name only) (As a single name on the same branch)
- Pressyne (Name only)
- Elynus (Name only) (Mate to Palatyne)
- (Blank branch)
- Bolla (Name only)
- Melior (Name only)
- ? (Name only) (Mate to Melusine)
- Melusine (Name only)
- Palatyne (Name only)
- ? (Name only) (Mate to Palatyne)
- Yith (Name only)
- Nagala (Name only)
Alan Moore (Referenced)
Agamemnon (Referenced)
T'Chombi (Referenced)
Aram Set (Referenced)
Phix (Referenced)
Vlad Dracula Tepes

Races and Species:

Humans
Fallen Angels (Referenced)
Fairies (Referenced)
N'Garai (Referenced)
Mutant
Demons
Human-Demon Hybrids
Asgardians
Elder Gods
Vampires
Zombies (Referenced)
"Elder races" (Elderspawn) (Referenced)
- Serpent-Men (Referenced)
- Bird-Men of Akah Ma'at (Referenced)
- N'Garai (Referenced)
- Ape Men (Referenced)
- Man-Bats of Ur-Xanarrh (Referenced)
- Harpies (Referenced)
- Goblins (Referenced)
- Nightgaunts (Referenced)
- Wolf Men of Valusia (Referenced)

Locations:

Earth (Mentioned)
- Nag Hammadi Library (Referenced)
- Omaha (Referenced)
Inner Planes (Referenced)
- Crossroads (Mentioned)
- Astral Plane (Mentioned)
- Avalon (Mentioned)
- Serpent's Sea (Mentioned)
- Flickering Realms (Mentioned)
  - Dimension of the N'Garai (Mentioned)
Brona's Barrier (Referenced)
Consecution of Colours (Referenced)
- Prismatic Bridge of Asbru (Mentioned)
- Crimson Cosmos (Mentioned)
- Purple Dimension (Mentioned)
- Raggadorr (Mentioned)
Archipelago of Anguish and Redemption (Referenced)
- Winding Way (Referenced)
- Sephorith (Referenced)
  - Citadels of Sephiroth/"Sevenfold Citadels of Sephorith" (Referenced)
- Dyzzak (The Dungeon Dimension) (Referenced)
- Veils of Valtorr (Referenced)
- Watoomb (Referenced)
- Cloudsea (Referenced)
- Boreas (Referenced)
- Otherplace (Magik's Limbo) (Referenced)
- Splinter Realms/Dark Dimensions (Referenced)
- Nightmare/The Realms of Nightmare (Referenced)
Celestial Concordance (Referenced)
- Mindscape (Sleepwalker's Realm) (Referenced)/Realm of Dream (Referenced)
- Munnopor (Many Moons of Munnipor) (Referenced)
- Cinnibus (Suns of Cinnibus/Sacred Suns of Cinnibu) (Referenced)
- Well Beyond the Worlds (Referenced)

Items:

First Tarot (First appearance)
First Book of Enoch (Referenced)
Eye of Agamotto
Cloak of Levitation
Orb of Agamotto (Mentioned)
Doctor Doom's Armor
Darkhold
Cloak's Cloak
Book of Bark, Briar & Bud (First appearance)
Dragonfang
Soulsword
Mystic Cape of Mercury (Referenced)
Shadow Cloaks (Referenced)
Pink Mink (Referenced)
Hellstorm's Trident
Cat Suit

Synopsis for "The Marvel Tarot"

Ian McNee looks through the First Tarot Deck, divining who appears on each card, and looking into their origins to see why. He discovered several cards are displaying more than one individual at different times, a sign he feels verifies that the world's magic is broken. In his research, he also traces back the Sorcerer Supreme title to its first earthly bearer, Agamotto.

Notes

The above characters are listed next to the Tarot card they appear on. The Fool is the only card in the First Tarot Deck that doesn't receive a representative, something that McNee find extremely odd.
This serves as a sort of handbook, seen from the eyes of Ian McNee, profiling select parts of select characters' lives.
Rintrah is said to be a "cow-terpillar in a cow-coon" and that "he will come back soon."
The First Tarot Deck was used by Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) in the Secret Defenders series as a way of figuring out what heroes were right for each mission.
The appearance of Naga on the Emperor card is seen as a possible reference to Nagala or a possible child of Nagala's, who would be seen as the seventh son of Set, the seven-headed demon, a child who would be known as the Dark Prince and usher in a time of immense power for the dark forces.

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