Marvel’s Werewolf by Night has just drawn the ire of the entire Savage Land, and he might not make it out alive.

Werewolf by Night #3 finds the titular antihero traveling alongside Elsa Bloodstone to the secluded, fantastical landscape of the Savage Land in the hopes of escaping the ghosts and ghouls that haunt him. Unfortunately, the Savage Land doesn’t receive the pair kindly, and soon enough they are brought before its leaders for judgment. Worse still, for the crime of harming his faithful feline companion Zabu, the legendary Ka-Zar has sentenced them to trial by combat.

Written by JASON LOO Art by SERGIO DÁVILA Inks by AURE JIMENEZ Colors by ALEX SINCLAIR Letters by VC’s JOE SABINO Design by JAY BOWN and KAT WALKINGTON Main cover art by E.M. GIST Variant covers by SERGIO DÁVILA & CECI DE LA CRUZ and JESSICA FONG

Hidden away from the rest of the world deep within Antarctica, the prehistoric landscape known as the Savage Land has been a part of the world of Marvel Comics since its introduction as the Land Where Time Stands Still in Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s story “Khor, the Black Sorcerer,” from the pages of 1941’s Marvel Mystery Comics #22. In the Savage Land, prehistoric beasts roam free, while various humans, mutants, and evolutionary offshoots live side-by-side in relative harmony. The Savage Land has been a key location in the Marvel Universe across multiple storylines, with everyone from Spider-Man to the X-Men having traversed it at one point or another.

Kevin Plunder, better known as Ka-Zar, made his Marvel Comics debut alongside his ferocious smilodon Zabu in 1965’s X-Men #10 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The oldest son of a British nobleman and scientist, Kevin and his brother Parnival became the heirs to their father’s astonishing discovery of Vibranium. This drew all manner of unwanted attention, eventually forcing the family to go into hiding. Alongside his father, Kevin journeyed to the Savage Land, where he would go on to become a veritable powerhouse unto himself and one of the fabled landscape’s most esteemed champions.

Marvel’s original Werewolf by Night, Jack Russell, first appeared in the pages of 1972’s Marvel Spotlight #2 in the opening story “Night of the Full Moon – Nighty of Fear!” by Roy Thomas, Jean Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Michael Ploog. The latest in his family afflicted by a centuries-old curse that resurfaced in the 1950s, Jack Russell has long struggled to control and contain the beast within. Luckily, Jack has been largely successful in those endeavors, so much so that the Werewolf by Night has gone on to hold a special place in the Marvel Universe as one of its least likely heroes of all time.

Werewolf by Night #3 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics