CAPTAIN MARVEL #32-33 (1974): 1st DEATH OF THANOS

What’s going on in these issues?

This continues Thanos’ first adventure with the Cosmic Cube.  As a character, he’s always trying to grab some shit that don’t belong to him and use it to be all-powerful, mostly to impress Death.

His power levels are approaching infinite. He is kicking Mar-Vell’s ass.

And also Drax’s.

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But Captain Marvel shatters the cube, and Thanos is taken by Death, who has still never spoken to Thanos.

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But now we know she can laugh at him. Isn’t that the way?  You try like Hell to impress a chick and she just laughs at you.

Lots of terrific fights and patented Starlin layouts. Nobody could do “big stories” like him.

Incidentally, issue #33 was written by Steve Englehart, NOT Jim Starlin. Nevertheless, this is one of the best Thanos books of all time.

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