Titans of Myth (DC)
The Titans of Myth are a group that feature in DC Comics.
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History
Pre-Crisis
The Titans of Myth
In the beginning there was only Chaos and from that Chaos was Gaea, the future mother of the Titans, spawned into existence. Gaea self-produced a son known as Ouranus and took him as her mate to eventually bore the twelve offspring that would be known as the Titans. Ouranus was very proud of the Titans for their physical perfection, but Gaea had other children known as the Cyclopes, who had one eye in the center of their heads, and the many-armed Hecatoncheiroi. Ouranus hated his other children and exiled them into the other-dimensional world of Tartarus. Eventually Ouranos went mad and began to seek the destruction of his Titan offspring. Gaea greatly grieved for her past children and called upon her one of her sons to depose of Ouranus and free his siblings from the Underworld. None of her sons would raise a weapon against Ouranus except for Cronus, the eldest of the Titans, who used a sickle to castrate Ouranus and dismember his corpse. The dying Ouranus prophesied that Cronus would be overthrown by one of his own sons. Afterwards, Cronus seized Olympus to usher in a golden age and ruled over Ancient Greece, but he neglected to free the Cyclopes or the Hecatocheiroi. His wife, Rhea, was guided by Gaea to conceal the birth of her son, Zeus and whisk him away after Cronus consumed his other children. Upon adulthood, Zeus freed the Cyclopes and the Hecatocheiroi as allies to conquer Olympus in a war known as the Titanomachy ('battle of the Titans'). Zeus was supported by a few of the Titans and by his freed siblings, swallowed by Cronus in order to prevent the prophecy of Ouranus. The Titans were defeated and imprisoned in Tartarus, watched over by the god Hades, who reserved part of the underworld as a realm of the dead.
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Titans
Overview
Members
- Cronus :
- Hyperion :
- Coeus :
- Crius :
- Iapetus :
- Mnemosyne :
- Oceanus :
- Phoebe :
- Rhea :
- Tethys :
- Themis :
- Thia :
Notes
- The Titans of Myth were created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez where they made their first appearance in New Teen Titans v1 #11 (September 1981).
Appearances
- New Teen Titans v1: (1981)
- Sensation Comics v1:
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