Curated playlist
Marvel Comics immortals
- Jean GreyJean Grey is a Marvel Comics character who has died and returned many times. Her tie to the cosmic force that defines her keeps being rewritten. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created her, and she first appeared in The X-Men #1 in September 1963.…
- Apocalypse (character)En Sabah Nur is the birth name of Apocalypse, a supervillain from Marvel Comics, and Marvel says the name means "The First One." That translation is considered grammatically incorrect. Broken into parts, the name joins words for "the,"…
- Adam WarlockAdam Warlock begins life with no name at all. Scientists on Earth who called themselves the Enclave built him as a perfect being, the next evolution of humanity, and he knew himself only as Him. Then he learned what his makers intended,…
- ThanosThanos first appeared on a comic book cover dated February 1973, in The Invincible Iron Man #55, and Marvel's heroes have not been rid of him since. He is a warlord from Titan, a moon of Saturn, born into two branches of a superhuman…
- Franklin Richards (character)Franklin Richards, son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, debuted in Marvel Comics as a baby with a mystery attached. Stan Lee, who helped create him, wanted readers to wonder what a child of two superpowered parents could do.…
- Phoenix ForceThe Phoenix Force, a cosmic entity from Marvel Comics, once wiped out five billion inhabitants of a single planet. Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum created it, and it first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #101 in October 1976. Yet the saga that…
- Mephisto (Marvel Comics)Mephisto first appeared in Silver Surfer #3, cover dated December 1968. Writer Stan Lee and penciler John Buscema created him for Marvel Comics. They modeled him on Mephistopheles, the demon of the Faust legend, who is sometimes called…
- DeadpoolDeadpool, the masked mercenary of Marvel Comics, once ended a storyline by breaking out of his own book and into the real world. There he confronted the writers and artists who were making the comic, and he turned to the reader with a…
- Ghost RiderGhost Rider is a Marvel Comics character whose first supernatural form was a stunt motorcyclist named Johnny Blaze. Blaze makes a desperate trade. To save the life of his foster father, he agrees to give his soul to a being called "Satan."…
- Sentry (Robert Reynolds)Robert Reynolds, a middle-aged man better known to Marvel Comics readers as the Sentry, carries the power of one million exploding suns, and almost nobody on Earth remembers him. Reynolds knows his enemy, the Void, is coming back. He also…
- Juggernaut (character)Juggernaut, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is Cain Marko, made his debut in X-Men #12, dated July 1965, without ever showing his face. For most of that issue he was an unseen force tearing through the X-Men's headquarters.…
- KnullKnull, a god of darkness older than the Marvel Universe itself, first appeared in Venom volume 4, issue 3, in August 2018. Writer Donny Cates and artist Ryan Stegman created him. In the comics he is a primordial being from before the…