- Script
- Jim Starlin (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Starlin (credited)
- Inks
- Al Milgrom (credited)
- Colors
- Christie Scheele (credited); Heroic Age (credited)
- Letters
- Dave Sharpe (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, it sometimes seems that status has been his lot in life from the start.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Galactus [Galan of Taa]; Eternity; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]; Thanos; Adam Warlock; Recorder; Hunger; Rigellian Grand Commissioner; Pip the Troll; unnamed skeleton
- Synopsis
- Galactus flashes back to his origins while his calculations are revealed: Galactus has found a way satiate his hunger indefinitely! Thanos attempts contact (via Moondragon's powers) and learns part of the plan. Galactus causes a sun to go nova to open a portal to another reality to obtain a peculiar fanged skeleton, which has one of the Infinity Gems on its breastbone.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- cosmic
The skeleton was originally drawn to be Rune's, since it has an Infinity Gem which he was known to have possessed, but was changed a bit because Marvel didn't have the rights to the Rune character. (Jim Starlin stated this on Newsarama).