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When Thanos blows up a star and kills an entire solar system in Avengers Annual 7 you can't help but see it as a Star Wars reference. Moondragon even does the Obi-Wan "millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" bit. Here's the thing... it came out 3 months after the movie. Comics have a long lead before publishing so this had to be in production well before the movie came out.

It's possible he saw the Marvel comic adaptation of that would have been in production at the same time. I doubt it because copying from your own company's licensed comic really doesn't sound like a Starlin move.

I love so much about Jim Starlin's cosmic books but he really didn't know how to write women.

Jim Starlin did these recap columns in Adam Warlock until the story was waaaay too complicated to condense like these.

While looking for the credits to tag these panels I noticed a little joke from Jim Starlin:

Did anyone fall for this Jim?

These panels from Incredible Hulk #176 contain maybe the only rack focus match cut in comics.

Books like Watchmen famously use match cuts between panels brilliantly, but I've never seen a comic use an out of focus middle panel to simulate the transition.

In one of the biggest cliffhangers in comics the president of Counter-Earth is revealed to be the Man Beast in disguise and... nothing. Adam Warlock's book got cancelled and so all they could do is promise it'd be resolved someday in the Marvel Universe.

The original run of Adam Warlock's story was the first two issues of Marvel Premiere, then 8 issues of a solo series, then it finally did get wrapped up 8 months later in the pages of Incredible Hulk.

The Hulk issues were enough to give Warlock another shot this time by Jim Starlin. That started in 4 issues of Strange Tales, but then heh got his own solo book again... THAT PICKED UP ON THE OLD BOOK'S NUMBERING! If you go straight from issue 8 to issue 9 you missed 7 parts of his story. That couldn't last forever either so Starlin's original Warlock run ends in Marvel Two-In-One.

It's all collected in trades these days that make it much easier to read, but it must have been so hard to follow in the 70s.

You can't call your recorder robot "Memorax" when the "Memorex" company already exists. Just cause he's Rigellian doesn't mean he doesn't know you're making fun of him.

Adam Warlock only puts a human disguise on for a handful of panels but for that brief moment in time he looked exactly like 1970s Ric Flair.

Just as orange too.