Arishem

Arishem is a Celestial — one of Marvel's god-like cosmic giants — who serves as the Judge of worlds, determining which planets and civilizations are worthy of survival. He presides over the Celestials' millennia-long experiments on humanity, including their creation of the Eternals and Deviants.

Few cosmic beings in Marvel's canon carry the sheer mythic weight of Arishem, who first loomed into existence in Jack Kirby's landmark The Eternals #2 in 1976 — a Bronze Age debut that announced the King was thinking on a truly universal scale. Over nearly five decades, this awe-inspiring figure has cast a long shadow across the Marvel cosmos, turning up alongside titans like Thor, Captain America, and Ajak, and leaving a collector-significant key issue in their wake. Arishem's appearances may be selective — which only amplifies the sense that when this being shows up, the stakes are cosmically enormous — gracing series as varied as Thor, Quasar, and Defenders: Beyond. If you're drawn to the grand, Kirby-conceived architecture of Marvel's universe, Arishem is exactly the kind of character who reminds you just how vast and ancient that cosmos truly is.