…Oldest Tradition.
"A reincarnated real estate agent and a raccoon adventurer in a far-off star system don't sound like superhero royalty. And to many moviegoers, the characters in August's Marvel-epic-of-the-month Guardians of the Galaxy will be an interstellar enigma, a bunch of randoms who have nothing to do with recognizable heroes like Iron Man and Spider-Man. But Marvel Comics has been exploring outer space for more than 50 years—longer than the Avengers or X-Men have been around. In fact, while relatively new, the Guardians—from Drax (the onetime realtor) to Rocket (the raccoon)—are maybe the purest standard-bearers of the Marvel Cinema juggernaut. (Well, except Juggernaut.)
The seeds for Guardians were fertilized way back in 1962's Fantastic Four #2: Marvel artist Jack Kirby put pencil to paper and gave life to the Skrulls, an ugly shape-shifting alien race that would go on to menace everyone from Ant-Man to Quicksilver. Almost immediately, Marvel's cosmic arm became its most imaginative: Over the next decade, Kirby and Stan Lee brought forth Galactus (who ate planets), the Silver Surfer (who scouted for said planets), and Ego (who was a planet). Years before paperback phenomenon Chariots of the Gods? sold millions of copies, Kirby busted out the Kree, his own ancient astronauts on Earth—who also happened to be the sworn enemies of the Skrulls. While Kubrick blew minds with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kirby and Lee sent their heroes to a parallel universe called the Negative Zone, on their way to battle the evil Annihilus and his Cosmic Control Rod.
And it only got heavier. After Kirby left Marvel in 1970, younger creators like Jim Starlin found these odd celestial realms to be a land of opportunity—the perfect milieu to express bold ideas and pose big (and possibly LSD-influenced) questions. Once he graduated from drawing high-profile, low-risk characters like Iron Man, Starlin had room to operate as an auteur in the cosmic comic realm. From his id flowed drunken trolls and monomaniacal moon dwellers; as he renovated earlier concepts for his own purposes, Captain Marvel and Warlock became trippy vehicles for apostate monologues and general space-angst. Meanwhile, Steve Gerber resuscitated the forgotten Guardians of the Galaxy, at the time a colorful band of 31st-century interplanetary swashbucklers that had originally appeared in a 1969 anthology issue…"
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