But even that is a recent development - just a few years ago, he threw shade at Marvel Studios for paying him an unsatisfying amount after using his characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To be clear, his main grudge is with Marvel Comics, Marvel’s publishing arm, not the filmmakers at Marvel Studios. Related StoriesĪvengers: Infinity War Will Dazzle, Stagger, and Rile You Up Most important, he’s the guy without whom this month’s Marvel mega-blockbuster movie Avengers: Infinity War couldn’t have happened - in the pages of his comics, he created its supervillain, the intergalactic killer Thanos, as well as its magical MacGuffin, the Infinity Gauntlet.Īnd he swears he’ll never make another comic for Marvel again. He’s primarily known as the leading light of so-called “Marvel Cosmic,” the general term applied to the company’s printed tales of trippy adventuring through the far reaches of time and space. The 70-year-old writer-artist is a giant in the comic-book industry, with hundreds upon hundreds of credits to his name. That’s a bitterly ironic statement, given what the multi-billion-dollar Marvel brand owes to Starlin. “But Marvel tends to bring out the worst in me, at times.” “I’m not an angry person, which you can probably hear from just me talking to you,” Jim Starlin tells me over the phone. This article was originally published in April 2018 and we are republishing it as part of our coverage of Avengers: Endgame, which prominently features Thanos. Photo: Jim Starlin / Marvel Entertainment.
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