515 – Mordo Combat

A panel from Adventures Into Weird Worlds #11, July 1952
A panel from Adventures Into Weird Worlds #11, July 1952

Atlas (Marvel) Comics had quite a few publications (more than DC) throughout the Golden and Early Silver many of which were driven by Stan Lee. In the anthological Adventures Into Weird Worlds #11 (July 1952), a one-shot villain named “Swami Mordo” makes an appearance, who shares a name and some characteristics of one of Doctor Strange’s best villains: Baron Mordo. Swami Mordo is a mystic who tries to convince a skeptic that he can commune with the dead. It turns out that its’ true, and Swami Mordo is, in fact, already dead…