A Quote by Jim Starlin

Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol' Thanos/Eros concept.

Jim Starlin

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After Came Class College Coming Coming Out Concept Eros Me Out Psychology Service Taking While

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Jim Starlin
American - Artist
Born: October 9, 1949

If you look closely, you'll see that Marvel basically has three Thanoses. There is the 1970s Thanos appearing in the movies. This is before he got the Infinity Gauntlet. Then there are the Thanos stories I'm telling. And finally, there is the Thanos that appears in the mainstream Marvel stories.

Jim Starlin

Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.

Jim Starlin

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

Jim Starlin

If you know me, Thanos is my favorite character.

Zion Williamson

Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.

Christopher Markus

Whenever I come back to Marvel, it's to do a Thanos story for one reason or another.

Jim Starlin

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

Jim Starlin

It's hard to say, but I think Warlock is the closest thing Thanos has to a friend.

Jim Starlin

I had worked on Thanos, created him back even before I started working at Marvel.

Jim Starlin

Thanos was the first character I ever created professionally. He's always been the baby I return to whenever I work with Marvel.

Jim Starlin

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Sigmund Freud

Thanos and Adam Warlock are two of a kind because they're both sort of out of the norm: out of the circle of life and death that falls on top of everyone else. Both have had multiple deaths and resurrections, and they always seem to get pulled in as key players for cosmic events.

Jim Starlin

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Helen Hunt

Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.

Christopher Markus

I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.

Jim Starlin

It's nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.

Jim Starlin