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The events of this story tossed Warlock into an existential crisis, contemplating the nature of life, but before much could be done to explore it, the series was canceled. In the end, Warlock defeats Magus by travelling into the future and absorbing his own soul into the Soul Gem before he could become the Magus.

In his fight with Magus, Adam meets the characters who will become his chief supporting cast and rivals: Pip the Troll, Gamora and, of course, Thanos. The Magus is, in fact, Warlock himself, a dark future version who has come back in time to conquer the universe. Only Warlock quickly learns the Magus is not what he seems. In Starlin’s first Warlock arc, one of the best-regarded stories of Marvel’s ‘70s esoterica, Warlock encounters the fundamentalist Universal Church of Truth and their living god, the Magus. When Warlock next appeared, it was in the pages of another Marvel anthology series, “Strange Tales,” before getting his own series again with a new creator at the helm: Jim Starlin, who would go on to write Warlock for the next 20-plus years.

The symbolism is pretty blatant, becoming even more so after Warlock’s series was canceled, and the loose ends were tied up in issues of the “Incredible Hulk,” in which Hulk visits Counter-Earth and Warlock dies and rises again to save the planet. There, Adam went to Counter-Earth, a clone of Earth that orbits the sun directly opposite Earth, created by the High Evolutionary, who sent Warlock to save the world and gave him his Soul Gem, something that would become even more important later.Īdam served as a Christ figure, wandering Counter-Earth, doing good and protecting the planet from the Man-Beast, the fallen creation of the High Evolutionary. After a couple appearances in the title, Adam Warlock got his own, short-lived series, simply called “Warlock.” Him got his new, cooler name in “Marvel Premiere” #1, by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane. But Stan, who wrote the actual scripts over the art, decided to make the dialogue and captions indicate the Enclave were evil and that Him destroyed them for that reason.Ĭomic book lore says this was the reason Kirby stopped creating new characters at Marvel, so his intent couldn’t be hijacked, and was a main contributor to one of comics’ greatest feuds. According to a “Comic Book Legends Revealed” column over at CBR, Kirby wanted Warlock to be an Objectivist, who would not put up with his generally good but imperfect creators, so he destroyed them. When Him leaves his birthing cocoon, he sees his creators are evil and destroys them.īut while that is what the comic said, it was not what plotter and artist Kirby intended. Back then, Adam was just known as Him, the creation of a group of mad scientists called the Enclave, in an attempt to create the perfect man. OK, that might be hyperbolic, but not by much.Īdam Warlock first appeared in “Fantastic Four” #67 by the fathers of the Marvel Universe, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. This week’s “Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock” sees the hero’s return to the comics, so for those who are unfamiliar, here’s a history of Marvel’s brooding, cosmic Hamlet in five acts.Īct One: The Man Who Broke Up Stan and Jack 2,” you got a hint that the character may be part of the MCU in the future. The other is Adam Warlock, who has been missing from the main Marvel Universe since “The Thanos Imperative” event series in 2010, although if you stayed through the credits of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. One is Thanos, the Mad Titan who has been all over Marvel comics since he debuted on the big screen in the first “Avengers” flick. “Infinity Countdown” begins this winter, and when a Marvel title comes out with the word “Infinity” in it, two characters almost automatically come along with it. BY MATTHEW LAZORWITZ, WMQ Comics contributor

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