Jim Starlin

James P Starlin born October 9 1949 is an American comics artist and writer Beginning his career in the early 1970s he is best known for space opera stories for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating or cocreating the Marvel characters Thanos Drax the Destroyer Gamora Nebula and ShangChi as well as writing the acclaimed miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet and its many sequels including The Infinity War and The Infinity Crusade all detailing Thanos pursuit of the Infinity Gems to court Mistress Death by annihilating half of all life in the cosmos before coming into conflict with the Avengers XMen Fantastic Four and the Elders of the Universe joined by the Silver Surfer Doctor Strange Gamora Nebula and Drax Later for DC Comics he drew many of their iconic characters including Darkseid and other characters from Jack Kirbys Fourth World and wrote the seminal storyline A Death in the Family which featured the death of Jason Todd the second Robin during his run on Batman For Epic Illustrated he created his own character Dreadstar Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Starlin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia