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i have heard about the infinity gauntlet a LOT on this board, and, though i have searched every comic shop i know of, i cannot find any information. i know it regareds thanos, a glove of some kind, moondragon, quasar, adam warlock, spider-man (somehow, he's not exactly a powerhouse in the marvel world), and death (what would a thanos-based story be without death?). so, i was wondering, what happened? what was the basic plot? any major aftermath that affected the entire marvel universe as we know it?
any and all information is thanked!!!!!
Glorfindel
04/10/2003, 01:35
I've got the Infinity Gaunlet at home. Just haven't read it yet sorry!
WFUnDina
04/10/2003, 01:52
If you want the real story read Thanos Quest 1 & 2. Which is available @ your local comic shop via the star catalog from Diamond. Although the collect edition has both books in one printing. I think its like 4.99 or 5.99 which is a good deal, cause when the both came out they were like the same price per issue. The Infinity Gauntlet is also available to retailers via the star catalog or Reordered from diamond. These are my favorite stories in the Marvel universe, bar none. :devious:
CCcenter_stage
04/10/2003, 02:08
Basic plot:
Thanos gathers all the infinity gems (see Thanos quest. great read!). Makes good on his promice to death and wipes out 1/2 of earth's population. Poof!
Silver Surfer (#50) comes to earth to warn everyone about thanos, but is too late. Dr. Strange and Adam Warlock gather a team to try to defeat Thanos.
Thanos makes tribute to death (private throne room in space). To demonstrate power, thanos recreates his grand-daughter (name escapes me). She's a 1/2 dead corpse. Mephisto pops in to hang out.
Team go to attack thanos (Adam warlock, strange, & surfer stand off to the side). Thanos captures them as soon as they appear at his . Mephisto points out that death is not impressed with how easy thanos defeated them, and points out that she would be better impressed if he turns off his "god" ability. Thanos agrees, and the fight ensues. Thanos whups everyone, and cap america is left. Thanos goes to take a swing. Surfer bolts from warlock's side, and tries to grab the glove holding the gems from Thanos' grasp. missed.
Turns back on god power. The cosmic beings (the second wave) try to take out Thanos. Great fight scenes!! Thanos wins! He gloats, and looses focus. Grand-daughter takes glove off of Thanos. She becoems god.
Captures surfer and dr. strange (warlock outside of realm). Contains thanos. She wishes everything was back as it was 24 hrs ago. The 1/2 that were "poofed" return to life. She returns to the 1/2 dead corpse that she was. Fixes this. Cosmic beings come in to attack her. captures them all.
Adam warlock reaches out and fuses himself with the soul gem. Moment of fighting between everyone. Glove is freed. Struggling for control of glove between everyone. Warlock gains control of glove.
Everything set back to normal. Adam splits glove up to Infinity Watch (see series). As "god," Warlock removes all emotion from him creating a "good" and "bad" side of him free onto the universe (see Infinity War and Infinity Crusade).
There ya go!
thanks! but what did spider-man do in this? i saw the cover of the TPB, and spidey was there, but you didnt mention him. what did he do?
thanks for everything else! now i will know what's going on!
WFUnDina
04/10/2003, 02:49
not much;) just another way to sell things!
unfortunately spidey got whupped on by thanos' perfect girl terraxia (whom he created after death spurned him) . Every other hero that attempted to attack thanos also got jacked.
the best shot that the good guys had was stealing the gauntlet from thanos as he went after cap but the surfer was a hair off and he didnt make a connection to the infinity gems. contact with the gems is required to access their power. that led adam warlock to manipulate the situation to create the victory by sacrificing the entire cosmic pantheon. in his many confrontations with the mad titan thanos Adam warlock figured out something very important about this adversary. He subconsciously doesnt think he deserves this power. which is why thanos shoots himself in the foot despite gaining ultimate victory ( by allowing his abused granddaughter nebula to gain the gauntlet.)
hope this answers your question
thanks. so spidey's just a marketing tool... sigh...
It's still a sweet story. you ought to check it out
Yeah, Gauntlet was sweet. Then, in classic Mavel fashion, they got a good story and said, "I know! Lets make a sequel that can be a ton of comics!" and made Infinity Wars, which sucked. They did the same thing with Secret Wars... made Secret Wars awesome, made Secret Wars 2 suck. <sigh>
Just my 2 cents.
Grethor
Spidy got beat to death with a rock. He wasn't a marketing tool, per se.
Do they have the Secret Wars in TPB?
Mr. Pilkington
04/10/2003, 15:46
Yep. And that is the easiest way to get it, as the Secret Wars issue where Spidey gets the black costume is difficult to find otherwise.
Mr. Pilkington
04/10/2003, 15:49
Thanos Quest and The Infinity Gauntlet are probably my favorite Thanos books. Infinity War and Crusade were very poor. Infinity Abyss was okay. And now The End is coming out. I don't know where it will go. But it is definitely worth your time to get the Thanos Quest and Gauntlet books.
Does anyone know where one can get the Secret Wars in TPB. I've looked everywhere and I can't find it.
I think I just saw the Secret Wars for sale on Amazon.com. You'd have to do a search for it, though, I was looking for something else.
Jason Blood
04/10/2003, 16:16
Does anyone know what "The End" is about?
NeoFascist
04/10/2003, 16:17
I wouldn't say Spiderman was a marketing tool. He was part of the Super-Hero team who survived Thanos wiping out of half the universes population. He went with them and fought, and had many good lines, and like everyone else, died. He gets as much time in the book as the other heroes, save for Warlock and the Silver Surfer, really.
Mr. Pilkington
04/10/2003, 16:39
"The End" is another world-shattering mini-series. An ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who disappeared out of history returns with phenominal power and takes over the planet for this "Celestial Order" that he works for. He blew up the X Mansion (with all of the X teams gathered there) and wiped out the Avengers and FF. Basically it is down to the standard crew of heros/villains to figure out how to stop it. People remaining include Doom, Thanos, Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Spiderman and Daredevil (although by issue #2 Doom is working on his own and Spidey and Daredevil were pretty much cameos). Pretty standard stuff.
Vicious Bomber
04/10/2003, 16:49
It occurs to me that you may have sen the trade for the infinity ABYSS not gauntlet. That story involves moondragon, warlock, captian marvel, and spiderman. He is actuall involved in that one. PLus the trade just came out so you are more likly to have seen that out on a shelf than the gauntlet trade.
I recomend reading them all. I sill have my orignal signed gountlet seires. it was the only thing I saved after I sold all my books.
GreenLantern73
04/10/2003, 16:57
Originally posted by CCcenter_stage
Basic plot:
Thanos gathers all the infinity gems (see Thanos quest. great read!). Makes good on his promice to death and wipes out 1/2 of earth's population. Poof!
Correction: 1/2 of THE UNIVERSE's POPULATION got wiped out by Thanos which included 1/2 of Earth's.
Silver Surfer (#50) comes to earth to warn everyone about Thanos, but is too late. Dr. Strange and Adam Warlock gather a team to try to defeat Thanos.
Thanos makes tribute to death (private throne room in space). To demonstrate power, Thanos recreates his grand-daughter (name escapes me). She's a 1/2 dead corpse. Mephisto pops in to hang out.
Clarification: That would be Nebula though the books made it seem that she might just be making it up to add to her reputation as an intergalactic pirate & cutthroat. He also forces his brother Eros, AKA Starfox to watch his reign as ultimate deity but removes Starfox's mouth so Eros can't use his mental manipulation powers that were projected via his voice.
Team go to attack Thanos (Adam warlock, strange, & surfer stand off to the side). Thanos captures them as soon as they appear at his . Mephisto points out that death is not impressed with how easy Thanos defeated them, and points out that she would be better impressed if he turns off his "god" ability. Thanos agrees, and the fight ensues. Thanos whups everyone, and Cap America is left. Thanos goes to take a swing. Surfer bolts from Warlock's side, and tries to grab the glove holding the gems from Thanos' grasp. missed.
Turns back on god power. The cosmic beings (the second wave) try to take out Thanos. Great fight scenes!! Thanos wins! He gloats, and looses focus. Grand-daughter takes glove off of Thanos. She becoems god.
Captures surfer and dr. strange (warlock outside of realm). Contains thanos. She wishes everything was back as it was 24 hrs ago. The 1/2 that were "poofed" return to life. She returns to the 1/2 dead corpse that she was. Fixes this. Cosmic beings come in to attack her. captures them all.
Adam warlock reaches out and fuses himself with the soul gem. Moment of fighting between everyone. Glove is freed. Struggling for control of glove between everyone. Warlock gains control of glove.
Everything set back to normal. Adam splits glove up to Infinity Watch (see series). As "god," Warlock removes all emotion from him creating a "good" and "bad" side of him free onto the universe (see Infinity War and Infinity Crusade).
Also, at the end of this, Eternity decrees that the Infinity Gems will NOT work when brought together again to avoid someone else trying to copy Thanos' quest. Of course, this plot point gets revisited during the Infinity War mini-series.
There ya go!
GreenLantern73
04/10/2003, 17:00
I believe that WaldenBooks will have the Infinity Gauntlet & Secret Wars TPB's.
CCcenter_stage
04/10/2003, 20:09
to green lantern 73.
Thanks for the corrections to my list. I was just going off of my memory.
But, then again... 1/2 of earth, 1/2 of universe...6 of one, 1/2 dozen of another.... point of it was - a lot of people died. He just asked for a quick sum up of the story, I didn't think that the little details were that important.
GreenLantern73
04/10/2003, 20:11
The fact that Thanos killed off 1/2 the freaking universe was an important point that he was willing to do ANYTHING, including widespread murder to get what he wanted: the favor of Mistress Death.
Wytstagg
04/10/2003, 20:24
Well the Infinity Gauntlet in my opinion was the best of the 3 ( Gauntlet, War, Crusade ), I also think it was the best mini series ever its what made me a Thanos fan for life.
Was Spider Man a marketing tool? Naw like someone said he was along for the fight. I think the reason I loved this series was because the deaths were a part of the real time line of Marvel. Some of my favorite deaths were,
When Thanos turned Wolverines bones to sponge
Thanos turning Thor into glass and shattering him
Turning Nova into toy blocks
I liked how he didn't even mess around with Hulk and Drax and just sent them to another world. Watching Captain America standing toe to toe with Thanos was awesome as well.
The outcome was of course the best part of the story. I have always loved Adam Warlock and was glad he got the gaunlet.
CCcenter_stage
04/10/2003, 21:02
to green lantern 73.
whatever... I'm not going to debate it. All I wanted to do was emphasise that a lot of people died. If it was just on earth or the entire universe...whatever...who cares. The idea was brought across, and that's the main thing (right?).
My favorite death was how Thanos killed cyclops. Suffocation is the way to go! ;)
PS: CCcenter_stage, it is a pretty big difference that Thanos killed half the universe and not just half the Earth. Galactus could destroy the whole earth by himself. Just admit u made a mistake, don't try to justify it.
thanks for all this... kinda excessive... clarification. i will now begin to look for the infinity stuff in my local comics shops. so, it's gauntlet, war, crusade, abyss, and "the end" in that order, right?
Mr. Pilkington
04/11/2003, 02:29
Don't forget Thanos Quest! It comes before Gauntlet. And honestly, only get War and Crusade if you absolutely have to have them all... those two aren't really good reads... more or less just another excuse for massive cross-overs between all of Marvel's titles at the time.
curr0001
04/15/2003, 03:45
Originally posted by Mr. Pilkington
Thanos Quest and The Infinity Gauntlet are probably my favorite Thanos books. Infinity War and Crusade were very poor. Infinity Abyss was okay. And now The End is coming out. I don't know where it will go. But it is definitely worth your time to get the Thanos Quest and Gauntlet books.
The end issue #3 Best. Cover. Ever! :)
..Too bad the cover doesn't exaclty live up to what's inside.
Its a fun What if story thought.
I got to find a copy of Infity Gauntet as well..
MrHappyJetpack
04/15/2003, 20:23
milehighcomics.com would probably have it.
That is too funny! I had Secret Wars AND the Infinity Gauntlet TPB's in my hand just this weekend and I was going to get them both half off at a convention. Since I have the regular issues though, I instead went with the TPB Marvel Star Wars 1-25, and Crisis of Infintive Earths.
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