Issue(s): Warlock #1, Warlock #2
Cover Date: Aug-Oct 72
Title: "The day of the prophet!" / "Count-down for Counter-Earth!"
Credits:
Roy Thomas - Script and Co-Plot on #1 and Plot on #2
Gil Kane - Co-Plot on #1
Mike Friedrich - Script on #2
Gil Kane - Penciler on #1 and "Spiritual Adviser" on #2
John Buscema - Layouts on #2
Tom Sutton - Inker on #1 and Finished Art on #2

Review/plot:
Ok, we are going to keep this very simple because Warlock is off on Counter-Earth and for the larger project we don't really care about the details here.

Warlock is still playing Jesus to the High Evolutionary's God, praying to HE to not destroy the world because he thinks he can redeem it.

The Man-Beast plays the devil. It's all set up fairly well from an allegorical point of view, even if it's a bit obvious...

...but there's no escaping the fact that it's ultimately super-hero fights between Warlock and the Ani-Men.

The High Evolutionary makes Counter-Earth invisible to detection from True-Earth (as it's called throughout the series) at the beginning of issue #1.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Warlock appears briefly in Hulk #158, and that's referenced in Warlock #3. Otherwise i'd clump the whole series together.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Essential Warlock vol. 1

In Alter Ego #149, Roy Thomas states that Kane co-plotted #1.