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Re-presenting the first appearance of THANOS, key antagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR blockbuster, based on the INFINITY GAUNTLET series.Iron Man Vol 1 #55 February, 1973Issue Details Editor-in-Chief Roy Thomas Cover Artists Jim Starlin Joe Sinnott Gaspar Saladino Morrie Kuramoto"Beware the... Blood Brothers!" Writers Jim Starlin Mike Friedrich Pencilers Jim Starlin Inkers Mike Esposito Letterers John Costanza Editors Roy ThomasAppearing in "Beware the... Blood Brothers!"Edit Featured Characters:Previous Iron Man (Tony Stark) Next Empty Supporting Characters:Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) (First appearance) Antagonists:Blood Brothers (First appearance) Thanos Next (First appearance) (Only in flashback) Thanos (robot) (First Appearance) (Destroyed) Other Characters:Dan (First appearance) I.S.A.A.C. (First appearance) Mentor (First appearance) Eros Next Empty (First appearance) (Only in flashback) Kronos (First appearance) (Only in flashback) Avengers (Mentioned) Races and Species:Humans Roclites (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) Titanians (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) Unidentified alien species (Only in flashback) Robots Locations:Milky Way Solar System Earth North America United States of America New Mexico Devil's Tongue (First appearance) Thanos's base (First appearance) (Destruction) New York New York City Long Island Queens Flushing Stark Enterprises Main Plant Titan (Main story and flashback) Saturn (Main story and flashback) Items:Iron Man Armor Model 3 Vehicles:Synopsis for "Beware the... Blood Brothers!"Edit Drax telepathically warns Iron Man about the Blood Brothers, but the two villains are already battling him. The duo renders him unconscious and transports him to Thanos' desert base. Thanos confronts Drax and reveals that he has been monitoring him and simply chose not to interfere. On Titan, Mentor prepares to aid Drax. As Iron Man is led into Thanos' base he fights back against the Blood Brothers and evades them. While he is trying to free Drax, Thanos enters and steps on his hand, damaging his right gauntlet. The Blood Brothers recapture Iron Man, but Mentor and ISAAC send a blast of energy from Titan and through Iron Man's unibeam, destroying Drax's manacles. Drax and Iron Man quickly best the Blood Brothers. Thanos prepares to destroy his base, but Drax obliterates the self-destruct switch. Iron Man punches Thanos' head, only to shatter it apart, revealing Thanos has gone, leaving a robot duplicate in his place. Suspecting a booby trap, Drax advises Iron Man to exit quickly. The base is destroyed just as they depart. Drax is certain that Thanos still lives and that he will face him again. He thanks Iron Man for aiding the people of Titan.Notes Thanos would next send the Controller to attack the Avengers in Captain Marvel #28. Iron Man would return to this location to follow-up on the story and continue his battle with the Blood Brothers in Marvel Feature #12 along side The Thing. This issue contains a letters page, "Sock It To Shell-Head". Letters are published from: Douglas Bruce Weinfield, Steve Palacios, and Laura Hadsall.Solicit Synopsis:The Day of the Destroyer!Trivia This issue originally showed all Titanians being purple-skinned like Thanos. Later reprints changed their skin tone so only Thanos was purple since the idea of Thanos being different-looking from the rest of his people wasn't established until later on.[1] read more

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