616 (number) i.e. (2!)² + (3!)² + (4!)² = 4+36+576=616. 666 is generally believed to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original. One possible explanation for the two different numbers is that they reflect two different spellings of Emperor Nero/Neron's name, for which (according to this theory) this number
Number of the Beast (comics) series was brought together into a trade paperback: Number of the Beast (comics) Number of the Beast is a comic book limited series, written by Scott Beatty, with art by Chris Sprouse. "Number of the Beast" was the second in a number of bi-weekly series, it was preceded by "", which resulted in the relaunch of a number of Wildstorm titles. As well as regular Wildstorm characters the series introduced a new team, The Paladins, comprising: The story chronologically began in 1945, when General Zebulon McCandless, a very pious and dogmatic person, oversaw the American recovery of a crashed Daemonite