Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman (writer), Bob Hall (penciler), and Frank Giacoia (inker).

   While the other giants in this story clearly survive, Manduu fell into a flame pit moments before the flames erupted so seriously that they would have killed Zeus. However, we never see Manduu killed outright, so he could have survived in any of a myriad number of ways. Most obviously, if he was hanging out in the Tower of the Sun anyway, he's probably fire-proof in the first place!

   This entire story is told in flashback by Ben Grimm to the children of Camp Runamuck. Since it is a retelling, some elements of the story may be exaggerated or outright false. However, the story contains some elements of truth as the Mighty Avengers: Most Wanted Files (2007) confirmed the invasion as having occurred and confirmed some of the Olympian locations mentioned in the story (including the Tower of the Sun) as being real.

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CLARIFICATIONS:
Manduu has no known connections to

• Mando, Andromeda Galaxy race, @ Warlock I#15
• Manitou, Native American sky god, @ Ghost Rider II#49
• Manitou, human mutated by Native Americans, @ Dances with Demons#1
• Man-oo the Mighty, gorilla, @ Jungle Action I#1
• Manoo, alien active on Earth, @ Amazing Adventures I#2
• Mondu, aka St. Johnny, @ Darkhawk#25
• or anyone else with a similar name

Tower of the Sun

The Tower of the Sun (also known simply as the Sun Tower) is located in Olympus proper, very near the Temple of Apollo (the Olympian Sun God). The Tower revolves to follow the sun, and during the "hour when the sun doth strike the Tower" it blazes with a heat and fury sufficient to reduce even a god to ash. Inside the Tower is a flame pit running the full height of the Tower.
When Manduu, Krokarr, and Y'Androgg invaded Olympus, Zeus was mystically bound to an unburnable pole then running up the center of the Tower's flame pit. Hercules and the Thing freed him by breaking the pole.

--Marvel Two-in-One I#44