RESURRECTION
LILYRESURRECTION
LILY
Proper nomenclature: Z.
aethiopica resurrectionis
Classification: Terrestrial flora
First Appearance: Heroic Age: One Month To
Live#4 (November, 2010)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: The Resurrection Lily
has legendary and remarkable restorative powers, able to heal others
with fatal wounds and presumably those with various types of diseases.
It blooms only once every 10 years, and it withers within a day.
History:
(Heroic Age: One Month To Live#4 (fb)- BTS) -
The Resurrection Lily, legendary for its restorative properties, bloomed
only once every 10 years in a specific location in the Savage Land, and it
withered within a day.
(Heroic Age: One Month to Live#4 (fb) - BTS) - Hearing
about the Resurrection Lily that bloomed in the Savage Land for only one
day every 10 years, Mr.
Scrath of Timely Pharmaceuticals sought to harvest it so Timely
could synthesize its medicinal properties. He speculated that the
financial rewards would be incalculable, and so would his bonus. Scath
hired the mercenary Tag
Team to retrieve it. He had his own man, Paul
Taylor, supervise the team. After Timely's
drones confirmed that there was a Resurrection Lily in bloom, Mr. Scath
had the team land far from the Lily and hike to it in order to avoid
alerting its protectors. 
(Heroic Age: One Month To Live#4 - BTS) - When the
vastly superhumanly powerful Dennis Sykes was dying from cancer, Reed
Richards contacted the Savage Land's Ka-Zar, who confirmed that there was
a Resurrection Lily in bloom as of the morning.
Reed modified Dennis' Flux suit with medications and
energy boosters able to make his stronger to handle the trip.
While he and Sue worked on other options to help Dennis, Richards had Wolverine (James Howlett/Logan) fly Dennis, his wife, Abbey, and their adopted daughter, Kelly, to the Savage Land.
Scrath called in to check on the Tag
Team, who were gunning down small attacking dinosaurs, and Taylor
assured Scrath they would complete the mission.
Alongside his saber-toothed tiger
companion Zabu, Ka-Zar observed the Tag Team. Due to the group's
superior numbers and fire-power, he instructed Zabu to wait for
Richards' friends arrival. 
After Wolverine and the Sykes family
arrived, Ka-Zar told them that there was a Resurrection Lily in bloom at
the top of the waterfall, but they had to act quickly.
Paul Taylor interrupted them, noting
that it was actually his employer's Lily, and he instructed the Tag Team
to kill them.
While Wolverine, Ka-Zar and Zabu took
down the Tag Team, Kelly was mortally wounded, and Taylor held Abbey
hostage and demanded that he be given the Lily.
Sykes used his powers to apparently
temporarily petrify Taylor and the Tag Team (he assured the others that
they were still alive).
(Heroic Age: One Month To Live#4) - Noting that the
Lily had bloomed at dawn and that it was now almost sunset, Ka-Zar then
scaled the nearby cliff, retrieved the Resurrection Lily, and brought it
to Dennis.
However, Dennis instead used the Lily to save Kelly, despite her arguments to the contrary. He and Abbey assured Kelly that she was theirdaughter.
Comments: Created by John Ostrander and Graham Nolan.
Good call on Wolverine's part for supporting bringing
Kelly to the Savage Land and promising to look out for her. She was
mortally wounded, and Flux sacrificed his own chance at survival to save
her. Abbey shouldn't have gone either, as she could have been wounded or
killed, and she couldn't have done much to help in a conflict either.
With the revelation of the Resurrection Lily's
existence, it makes me wonder why it wasn't used to save others in the
past, like perhaps Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell). The real reason is that it
hadn't been created in-story yet, but, of course, once it was used in
story, it existed before that. Perhaps it was not effective against that
alien cancer, or perhaps it just wasn't in bloom at that time. Thirty
years in real time is perhaps 6 years in Marvel Time, so if it was in
bloom in this story, it probably would not have been in bloom at the time
of Mar-Vell's death.
However, perhaps each individual plant blooms every 10
years, but maybe that is based on when the seed is planted, meaning
perhaps different plants may bloom at different times.
When Ka-Zar retrieved the Resurrection Lily, there
looked to be two other flowers that just hadn't opened up yet. They were
similarly colored, but it wasn't confirmed that the other flowers were
Resurrection Lily.
Or, perhaps, there's really only one plant that blooms
every 10 years...
This profile was completed 12/06/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Resurrection Lily should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads):
Heroic Age: One Month To Live#4, pg. 8, panel 3 (Reed projecting
image of the Lily);
pg. 21, panel 2 (Ka-Zar reaching for
Lily);
panel 4 (Dennis using Lily
for Kelly);
pg. 22, panel 1 (withered Lily);
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
First posted: 09/30/2026
Last updated: 12/06/2025
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