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The Seraph in "Echo of Evil" from  Super Friends  #46 Rivkah's cousin from Los Angeles is visiting Masada, a site in the Eastern Judean desert.  She is introduced to Chaim Lavon, who senses the clammy nearness of a malevolent being.    A caption box sets up the remainder of the story: "The influx of American visitors to Masada promised to be a joyful event, yet the place was haunted by the venomous presence of a demon... A ghostly butcher eager to slaughter 960 men, women, and children... Echo of Evil!" Despite the moment of unease, Chaim shares the history of Masada with cousin Wendy: "King Herod the Great turned Masada into a pleasure palace and formidible fort around 36 to 30 B.C.  100 years later, Rome sacked Jerusalem.  The last band of Jewish fighters fled into the desert to continue their battle for freedom... From Masada, they harried the Romans for two years....Then, Flavius Silva, with the Roman Tenth Legion, plus 10,000 colonial troops and s...

The Seraph in "Dry Earth... Stolen Waters" from  Super Friends  #41 Chaim Lavon arrives with children from the U.S.--Richard, Laurie, Tommy, and Julie--at a desalinization plant on the Red Sea where college students are helping change salty sea water into fresh water for irrigation.  The are notified by a shady looking student in dark sunglasses that their tour has been cancelled.  Chaim Lavon senses something is fishy, and before the group departs he calls up to the watchtower in Hebrew (so as not to alarm the English-speaking children).  The reply comes in Hebrew as well, however with a "metallic" sounding automated response.  Ducking into the school bus, Chaim Lavon emerges as the Seraph!  He orders the children to hide behind the bus as gunshots come from the watchtower.  The Seraph contemplates the Ring of Solomon to gain wisdom about the situation.  He realizes the watchtower resembles a giant metal Goliath, so he fashions a super sling...

The Super Friends Saturday morning cartoon was presented in a variety of formats.  The first season included hour-long episodes.  The second season fit four separate stories into the hour-long program.  Likewise, the Super Friends comic book varied in format.   While most issues contained a single story, some issues were part of a multi-issue story arc.  Still other issues included a longer story featuring all of the Super Friends followed by an eight-page back-up story featuring a solo character.   These back-up stories rotated among: The Wonder Twins, often in their secret identities which never used on the cartoon Plastic Man, who had his own Saturday morning cartoon Irish hero Jack O' Lantern, who had appeared with other international heroes in the comic book The Seraph, the Man Who Could Work Miracles While each of these features has its own merits, the back up stories with Jack O' Lantern and the Seraph are trailblazing, because thes...

  There are comic book characters who believe in God.  Ben "The Thing" Grimm of the Fantastic Four wears a yarmulke at his wedding in Fantastic Four #5 (2018).  Todd Rice (Obsidian) and Jennie-Lynn Hayden (Jade) are shown praying in a church in an early issue of Infinity Inc. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen is said to be a Lutheran.   There are also comic book characters who are gods.  Thor is the Norse god of thunder.  Highfather and Darkseid are called "New Gods."  Wonder Woman was, at one point in her 80 year history, the goddess of truth.   There are also a handful of mainstream comic book characters that serve God.  Both the Spectre of the Justice Society of America and Zauriel of the Justice League of America have been God's "avenging angels."  I think it is fair also to say that the Seraph of the Global Guardians was a super hero in the service of the Lord. The Seraph first appeared in Super Friends #7, cover dated Oct. ...