Movie/ TV Tie-Ins The Infinity War #1 …or How Thanos saved the universe! "Chthonic Maneuvers” Writer – Jim Starlin Pencils – Ron Lim Inker – Al Milgrom Colorists – Max Scheele & Ian Laughlin Letterer– Jack Morelli Editor – Craig Anderson Honcho – Tom Defalco June 1992 If we are going to talk about Infinity War #1 and how it ties into Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War, part 1, now in theaters, we are going to need to begin with a very long, convoluted history lesson. That roadtrip begins in 1973 when scripter Mike Friedrich and writer-artist Jim Starlin created Thanos to be the heavy opposite Starlin’s idea of failed anger management in hero form, Drax the Destroyer. The issue they appeared in was Iron Man #55 and Thanos came off as a pretty thin concept in that book. Starlin even admits that most of Thanos’s look was swiped or homage to Jack Kirby’s Darkseid at the urging of Editor Roy Thomas: Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. He was over at DC at the t
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