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New Gods

The New Gods were natives of the twin planets of New Genesis and Apokolips, which were located in the Fourth World.

They were the descendants of the Old Gods, who were the natives of Urgrund, which was where the twin planets of New Genesis and Apokolips were born from.

New Genesis was an idyllic planet filled with unspoiled forests, mountains, and rivers and was ruled by the benevolent Highfather.

Apokolips was a nightmarish, ruined dystopia filled with machinery and fire pits and was ruled by the tyrant Darkseid.

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund,[1] but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.[2]


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Notes[]

  • The New Gods first appeared in a self titled, four-part series of comics about those characters.
  • They first appeared in New Gods, Vol. 1 #1 (March, 1971).[3]
  • The series was cancelled in 1972. When it was revived in 1977, the numbering was carried over. Although the indecia remained "The New Gods", the cover used the title "The Return of the New Gods". The attempted revival was short-lived, but the property's fortune's rose in the 1980s when the toy company, Kenner, was introduced to the characters in the proposal for the Super Powers Collection. The toy company decided they were perfect, especially Darkseid and his minions, as a collection of powerful supervillains who were a believable challenge to the superheroes anyday, even Superman. With the success of the toy line, the New Gods truly secured a prominent place in the DC Universe in the comic books.
  • They were created and designed by Jack Kirby.

References[]

  1. Urgrund is German for "primeval ground".
  2. In Norse mythology, Ragnarök ("final destiny of the gods") is a series of major events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures, the occurrence of various natural disasters. Afterward, the world resurfaces anew and fertile, the surviving gods meet, and the world is repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.
  3. Go to DC Database for more on New Gods, Vol. 1 #7 published in March, 1972.
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