![]() In addition to multiple comic series over the years, Wendy also appeared regularly on the Saturday morning “Casper” cartoon. ![]() Instead, Wendy regularly called on good spirits to use white magic to help people. The trio tried to teach Wendy black magic, but it never took. She bolted during the "Hell on Earth" War, but her efforts to ascend as the new lord of hell failed when the mantle unexpectedly fell on X-Factor’s Strong Guy.Ĭreated by artist Steve Mufatti, Wendy the Good Little Witch is most famous as longtime pal of Casper the Friendly Ghost, but during the 1960s and early 1970s, she had not one, but two solo series from Harvey Comics: “Wendy the Good Little Witch” and “Wendy Witchworld.” As a baby, Wendy was left on the doorstep of her “aunties” Thelma, Velma and Zelma, who were evil green-skinned witches living deep in a haunted forest. It wasn’t long, though, before she fell back to her evil ways and Satana found herself thrust amongst the Thunderbolts. When she returned from the dead, Satana joined a coven alongside Jennifer Kale (from “Man-Thing”) and Topaz (from “Werewolf by Night”). Of course, it’s hard to keep a good (or bad, depending on your perspective) witch down, so soon enough Satana was back in action. She did make it to Earth eventually, where she served hell as a succubus until a run-in with Doctor Strange resulted in her death. While her brother was raised on Earth and came to reject his demonic heritage, Satana was raised in hell, where she learned black magic. or at least, that’s what she thought for years before learning her father was merely a demon posing as Satan. The sister of Daimon Hellstrom, Satana was created by Roy Thomas and John Romita, Sr. They even had two 3-issue miniseries in the late 1990s: “WitchCraft” by James Robinson, Teddy Kristiansen and Michael Zulli, and its sequel “WitchCraft: Le Terreur," again by Robinson and Zulli. Gaiman filled the Dreaming with a number of DC’s old horror anthology hosts - Cain, Abel, Eve, even Lucien - but the Weird Sisters may have played the most important role of all of them. Most comic readers, however, know the Weird Sisters not from “The Witching Hour,” but from Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman." Gaiman and his company of incredible artists (most prominently Marc Hempel), reimagined the Sisters as an aspect of the Greek Fates, and they appeared periodically throughout the series to help, hinder and ultimately destroy Dream. The trio were inspired by the witches from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” by way of Robert Graves’ triple goddess, with Cynthia playing the hip “maiden” to Mildred and Mordred’s “mother” and “crone.” In “The Witching Hour,” the three competed to tell the most horrifying tales, with Cynthia’s often dealing with more contemporary issues. The three Weird Sisters first appeared as the hosts of DC Comics’ 1970s horror anthology “The Witching Hour” by Alex Toth, where they were named Mordred, Mildred and Cynthia (yes, Cynthia). ![]()
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