GCD :: Issue :: Drax: Guardian of the Galaxy

Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Gamora; Pip the Troll; Thanos; Adam Warlock; Marr Gar (introduction); Lamilm Gor (introduction); Ancient Traveller (introduction); Constable Trueheart (introduction)

Reprints

from Warlock (Marvel, 1972 series) #15 (November 1976)

Keywords

Soul Gem

Drax; Thanos / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Scott Edelman (credited)
Pencils: Mike Zeck (credited)
Inks: Mike Zeck (credited)
Colors: Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra G.)
Letters: Susan Fox (credited); Jim Novak (credited) (splash page)
Editing: Archie Goodwin (credited)

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Thanos

Reprints

from Logan's Run (Marvel, 1977 series) #6 (June 1977)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Joe Rubinstein; Dave Cockrum
Inks: Joe Rubinstein
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #58 [Regular Edition] (September 1978)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited); Bob McLeod (credited)
Inks: Bob McLeod (credited)
Colors: Françoise Mouly (credited)
Letters: Denise Wohl (credited as D. Wohl)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Featuring: the spectacular return of -- Drax the Destroyer!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Eros (cameo); ISAAC; Rick Jones (cameo); Kronos (cameo); Mentor [A'Lars] (cameo); Thanos (cameo); Jacqueline Carr

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #58 (September 1978)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Pat Broderick
Inks: Bob Wiacek
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #59 [Regular Edition] (November 1978)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: Bob Sharen (credited)
Letters: Clem Robins (credited)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Passing Saturn's mammoth rings, en route to wonder...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; ISAAC; Mentor [A'Lars]; Stellarax; Gaea

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #59 (November 1978)

Keywords

Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Herb Trimpe
Inks: Herb Trimpe ?
Colors: ?
Letters: Irv Watanabe

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #60 [Regular Edition] (January 1979)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: George Roussos (credited as George R.)
Letters: Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Annette Kawecki (credited)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

Job Number

LG191

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Saturn's hollow moon, Titan: deep within the mazed root-mass...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros (cameo); ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars] (cameo); Stellarax; Gaea; Dionysus; Caleb; Zekiel; Mordecai P. Boggs

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #60 (January 1979)

Keywords

Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Pat Broderick
Inks: Joe Rubinstein
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Elysius; Chaos

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #61 [Regular Edition] (March 1979)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: Bob Sharen (credited as Sharen)
Letters: Jim Novak (credited as Novak)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

Job Number

LG-291

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Somewhere in Titan, largest of Saturn's moons, a close scrape with death...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Gertie; Chaos; Tartarus

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #61 (March 1979)

Keywords

Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Pat Broderick (signed)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: Danny Crespi ?; typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Stellarax

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #62 [Regular Edition] (May 1979)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: Nel Yomtov (credited)
Letters: John Costanza (credited as J. Costanza)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

Job Number

LG-308 ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the pre-dawn countryside just beyond Washington, D.C....

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Stellarax; Gertie

Reprints

from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #62 (May 1979)

Keywords

Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Jeff Aclin (signed)
Inks: Bob McLeod (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: Irv Watanabe

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]

Reprints

from Marvel Spotlight (Marvel, 1979 series) #1 [Direct] (July 1979)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: Carl Gafford (credited as Gaff); Glynis Oliver (credited as Wein)
Letters: Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Elaine Heinl (credited)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

En route to the ringed planet's largest moon...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Stellarax; Gertie; Dionysius; Saturnians (introduction); Chaos; Gaea; Isaac-Prime

Reprints

from Marvel Spotlight (Marvel, 1979 series) #1 (July 1979)

Keywords

Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Frank Miller (signed)
Inks: Terry Austin (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; ISAAC

Reprints

from Marvel Spotlight (Marvel, 1979 series) #2 [Direct] (September 1979)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks: Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors: Barry Grossman (credited as Ben Sean)
Letters: John Costanza (page 1); Diana Albers (credited)
Editing: Roger Stern (credited)

Job Number

LG504

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the false sky within the parched and dying hollow world of Titan...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Stellarax; ISAAC-Prime; Chaos; Gaea; Gertie; Dionysus

Synopsis

Mar-Vell exposes I.S.A.A.C. to all the joy and sorrow of being mortal, finally bringing his actions to a halt.

Reprints

from Marvel Spotlight (Marvel, 1979 series) #2 (September 1979)

Keywords

Titan

Thor / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Keith Pollard (signed)
Inks: Keith Pollard (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: Danny Crespi; Rick Parker ?

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Edwin Jarvis; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]; Thor

Reprints

from Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #314 [Direct] (December 1981)

Thor / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script: Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils: Keith Pollard (credited); Dan Green (credited); Pablo Marcos (credited)
Inks: Dan Green (credited) (pages 1-2, 5-7, 19-23); Pablo Marcos (credited) (pages 3, 8-18)
Colors: George Roussos (credited)
Letters: Janice Chiang (credited)
Editing: Jim Salicrup (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Moon Dragon -- mistress of mental and martial arts...

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell] (flashback); Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Eros (flashback) (cameo); Immortus (flashback) (cameo); Edwin Jarvis; Kronos (flashback) (cameo); Mantis (flashback) (cameo); Mentor [A'Lars] (flashback) (cameo); Moondragon [Heather Douglas]; Tony Stark (cameo); Thanos (flashback) (cameo); Thor; Shawna Lynde (introduction); Yvette Douglas (Heather's mother; death in flashback; cameo); Sensia (flashback, cameo)

Synopsis

Moondragon decides she wants to try to understand Drax the Destroyer since he has the remains of her fathers soul inside him. When she finds Drax unconscious after being attacked by aliens she takes him to Avengers Mansion, where Thor happens to be visiting. Drax, controlled by the alien, goes on a rampage that must be stopped by Thor.

Reprints

from Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #314 (December 1981)

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Jim Starlin
Inks: Jim Starlin
Colors: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Death; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Thor; Wolverine [Logan]

Reprints

from Marvel Graphic Novel (Marvel, 1982 series) #[1] - The Death of Captain Marvel (1982)

Indexer Notes

Homage to Michelangelo's sculpture "La Pieta".

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Jim Starlin (credited)
Pencils: Jim Starlin (credited)
Inks: Jim Starlin (credited)
Colors: Steve Oliff (credited)
Letters: Jim Novak (credited)
Editing: Al Milgrom (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers [Beast [Hank McCoy]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor; Vision; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]]; Defenders [Gargoyle; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Nighthawk [Kyle Richmond]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]]; X-Men [Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Devil-Slayer; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; Hercules; ISAAC; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Uatu; General Zedrao

Synopsis

Drax and Moondragon visit the dying Captain Marvel and share in his final moments of life.

Reprints

from Marvel Graphic Novel (Marvel, 1982 series) #[1] - The Death of Captain Marvel (1982) [Drax pages]

Keywords

cancer; Titan

Captain Marvel [Marvel] / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Jim Starlin
Inks: Jim Starlin
Colors: ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Beast [Hank McCoy]; Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Black Panther [T'Challa]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Elysius; Eros; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Rick Jones; Mentor [A'Lars]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Thor; Triton; Vision; Wolverine [Logan]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]

Synopsis

The heroes surround Marvel's tomb.

Reprints

from Marvel Graphic Novel (Marvel, 1982 series) #[1] - The Death of Captain Marvel (1982)

The Avengers [superhero] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Bob Hall
Inks: Bob Layton
Colors: ?
Letters: Rick Parker ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]

Reprints

from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #219 [Direct] (May 1982)

The Avengers [superhero] / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script: Jim Shooter (credited)
Pencils: Bob Hall (credited)
Inks: Vince Colletta (pages 1-7, 9-13); Frank Giacoia (pages 14-16); Al Milgrom (pages 17-18, 20-21); ? (pages 8, 19) [as Embellishers Assembled]
Colors: Christie Scheele (credited)
Letters: Joe Rosen (credited)
Editing: Jim Salicrup (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

New York City is a troubled town...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Edwin Jarvis; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]; Vidal; Nicole; Squid; Eliot

Reprints

from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #219 (May 1982)

The Avengers [superhero] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Bob Hall (signed)
Inks: Brett Breeding (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset; ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Drax the Destroyer [Arthur Douglas]; Moondragon [Heather Douglas]

Reprints

from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #220 [Direct] (June 1982)

The Avengers [superhero] / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script: Jim Shooter (credited)
Pencils: Bob Hall (credited)
Inks: Dan Green (credited) (pages 1-4, 5 (panels 1, 4-6), 7, 8, 9 (top two tiers?), 10 (panels 2-8?), 11?, 12?, 15? (panels 5, 6), 17?); Sal Trapani (page 5 (panels 2 & 3), 10 (panel 1); Jack Abel (page 9 (bottom tier); Bob Layton (pages 14 (bottom tier), 15 (Iron Man figures, panel 5), 20 (panel 6), 22 (panel 5?); Dave Simons (page 16 ?); Steve Mitchell ((page 18 ?); ? (pages 6, 13, 19-21); ? (pages 6, 13, 19-21) (see notes)
Colors: Christie Scheele (credited)
Letters: Joe Rosen (credited as Rosen) (pages 1-5); Janice Chiang (credited) (pages 6-22)
Editing: Jim Salicrup (credited)