Janus (Marvel Comics)

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character_name=Janus
real_name= Janus
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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut=(the seeming angel) "Tomb of Dracula #51"
(birth of Janus) "Tomb of Dracula #54" (Mar 1977)
(Janus possessed by seeming angel) "Tomb of Dracula #61"
creators=Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan
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aliases=The Golden Angel, Son of Dracula
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Janus is a fictional comic-book character in the Marvel Comics universe.

Fictional character biography

The Golden Angel was a possessing spirit who claimed to be an angel, a messenger and warrior of God. This angel was revealed to have appeared to Dracula and thwarted his will in the past. As an angel, he battled Dracula and predicted his death, although he was then slain by Dracula. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #52]

Dracula and his wife Domini later conceived through mystical means via a spell of Anton Lupeski. An infant was born to them in Boston, Massachusetts, and they named this baby Janus. Dracula sired this child as part of a plan to use the Church of Satan to fulfill his plans for world domination. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #54] The baby was accidentally shot and killed by Lupeski during an attack by Quincy Harker, Rachel van Helsing, Frank Drake, and Harold H. Harold on Dracula. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #59] Domini resurrected Janus by merging him with the same seeming golden angel Dracula had encountered years earlier, returning Janus to life as an adult. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #61] Janus became Dracula's opponent however, and battled Dracula to prevent his victims from becoming vampires. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #62] Alongside Dracula, Frank Drake, and Topaz, Janus also battled a demonic creature. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #63]

When Quincy Harker had temporarily destroyed Dracula, the possessing golden angel abandoned Janus' body. Janus immediately returned to Domini in infant form, as a living baby. ["Tomb of Dracula" Vol. 1 #70]

Years later, Janus was kidnapped at the order of the vampire lord Varnae. ["Nightstalkers" #16-18 (Feb.-April 1994)]

Powers and abilities

Janus had the ability to hurl beams of concussive mystic force from his eyes and hands. He also had the ability to absorb and repel energies hurled against him, and the ability to change form into a golden eagle.

As an angel, Janus had the ability of self-levitation, the ability to control weather and dispel storms in limited areas, immunity to Dracula's hypnotic powers and the ability to break his hypnotic hold over others.

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