"Bah!" the Goddess of Thunder snorted. "The next thing thou wilt claim is
that there really are Stone Men from Saturn. All know there are not such
things as beings from outer space."

    Is this another reference?

 Being a long time Marvelite, let me answer this before DB does.  Thor was
originally a doctor who on a trip to norway was attacked by "stone men from
saturn"  part of the wonderful cheesy "origin" back in the sixties I think.
The doctor crawled into a cave and found the stick on an alter, and once
tapped, the stick became Thors hammer, and the doctor became Thor.  This
lasted for several years because "Odin was punishing Thor"  by making him
experience mortal life, vicariously.  Eventually, Thor stopped being tied to
the doctor and was just himself.

"No, there was too much kinetic energy for that to be a simple laser
weapon," Iron Rose informed the others. "I'm uncertain what kind of

device

it was, but its sophistication is far beyond that of all but the most
technologically advanced of societies or industries."

    A blast of ki?

No, a force beam.  One of the many powers of the rings of The Mandarin.  I
forget exactly which hero he's the Arch for, I think it's either Cap A or
shellhead...  The rings are of extra-terrestrial origin and found in  a
space ship in the Hymalayas.

In a soft, almost reverent voice, Daredevil said, "Legends say that

dragons

once inhabited this part of the Bayan Han, and that they would move

through

the earth at will. Whenever anyone found tunnels such as these, they

called

them 'Dragon Lines' and would seal them up, lest the dragons came out and
devoured them and all they cherished. The greatest and most powerful

dragon

of all was Fin Fang Foom, and only death awaited those that would dare
disturb him in his lair."

    Fin Fang Foom. Is this you, or from a comic book?

Marvel Comics.  He's the legendary alien from said space ship.  I don't
remember if he was still alive when the mandarin got the rings, or if the
Chinese Supervillian stole them from his corpse... been a long time... and
DB must have a better collection than I did...





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