"To preserve the character's mystique, his next two appearances were nonspeaking The full Lee-and-Kirby origin story was reprinted in the one-volume The consequences of Galactus's death are explored in the issues Galactus and the Silver Surfer appeared as antagonists in The character played a central role as antagonist in Following his appearance in "Hunger", Galactus was a major supporting character in Galactus featured prominently in a direct sequel series to Galactus was reverted to his "Devourer of Worlds" persona by writer Gerry Dugan in Set at the end of the primary Marvel continuity, the limited series Galactus was originally the explorer Galan of the planet Taa, which existed in the prime Galactus becomes involved in a civil war among the "Proemial Gods", who had come into being during the universe's infancy. Although he does not require this device to devour planets and will forego its use in certain scenarios, it makes the conversion of energies more efficient. That was when inspiration struck. Galan, also known as Galactus and The Devourer of Worlds, is a godlike supervillain and one of the main antagonists of Marvel Comics, opposing the entire Marvel Universe, but most commonly serving as the secondary antagonist of the Fantastic Four comic book series and a major antagonist in the Avengers comic books, as well as being the main antagonist of the Silver Surfer comics. Galactus is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Therefore, the natural choice was sort of a demi-god, but now what would we do with him? Galactus was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, published in March 1966. Galactus, realizing his uncontrollable hunger for energy, turned his attention upon the energy-rich Archeopia below. He preserves the balance of life eating planets, just as a lion does it eating antilopes.
When the Surfer detected the seed was gone he informed Galactus. This week on Marvel 101, witness the utter destruction wrought by one of the Marvel Universe’s most powerful beings. Galactus immediately consumed the life energies of the Archeopia, only a small fleet of Archeopian ships managed to escape the planet in time. In the character's first appearance, Galactus was depicted as a god-like figure who feeds by draining living planets of their energy, and operates without regard to the morality and judgments of mortal beings.
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He began to consume more and more frequently, because, unlike the life essences of the planets he normally feeds on, the life forces of mortal beings offer him no sustenance; thus his addiction left him perpetually starving, weakened and demented.
Galactus has even on rare occasions been shown to travel in his solar system-sized Worldship, Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Planet Devourer, Balance between Eternity and Death, Nullifier of Yellow, square-shaped pupils, formerly right arm missingTake your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Galan, a space explorer, was dispatched to travel through the cosmos to find a means of saving Taa, but he found none. Although over time the Watcher race has come to understand that Galactus is an intrinsic and necessary component to the natural order of the cosmos, Ecce has expressed guilt over his decision those billions of years ago and feels partially responsible for the destruction Galactus has caused since.The nascent Galactus employed his vastly limitless strength and power and created a suit of armor to help him regulate his raging internal energies. After the Fantastic Four and the Surfer defeat Galactus's new herald, the When Nova is conscience-stricken at causing the death of billions of aliens, Galactus takes on a new herald, the bloodthirsty Conscience-stricken, Galactus tries to rid himself of his hunger by feeding on the power from the The Silver Surfer finds the body of a future Galactus under New York City, and he summons the present Galactus to Earth.A tear in the fabric of space caused by the Annihilation Wave and other interstellar conflicts allows the extra-universal forces of the Galactus is then pulled through a hole in space-time to an Galactus returns to the universe, and after an encounter with Returning to Earth, Galactus has a confrontation with An injured Galactus crash lands on Asgard, apparently seeking asylum from the cause of his universe's destruction: the Black Winter. He is beyond reproach, beyond anyone's opinion.
However, the Sixth Infinity and all its universes were in their final stages of collapse due to the multiversal renewal cycle.Originally, like …
With the help of However, although his power is great, it is dependent on the amount of energy he has absorbed from planets. Galactus is the sole survivor of the sixth incarnation of the Multiverse. He then transformed the starship of Galan into a kind of Galactus, with his metamorphosis complete, emerged and with a gesture destroyed the invading fleet.
He sends his herald, Silver Surfer, who entered his service for preventing him to destroy his planet, along the galaxies to search for a suitable planet.