Quotes from Jim Starlin

I had worked on Thanos, created him back even before I started working at Marvel.

Whenever I come back to Marvel, it's to do a Thanos story for one reason or another.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That's how I got my first job there.

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.

Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.

It's hard to say, but I think Warlock is the closest thing Thanos has to a friend.

My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members.

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

Even devils should beware when bargaining with Thanos of Titan.

A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.

We are what circumstances make of us

Photographs are a bridge to the past. Black and white reminders of the way things used to be. Links to those who are no longer with us. Priceless treasures.

Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?

When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

Maybe I'm getting precognitive in my old age.

Prepare thyselves for battle most fierce and awesome.