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Dreaming Celestial

Dreaming Celestial

10 appearances · Bronze Age · 1980–2024
Who is Dreaming Celestial?

The Dreaming Celestial is a rogue member of the Celestials — the enigmatic god-like beings who shaped life across the universe — who was judged and imprisoned by his own kind for defying their purpose, buried beneath the Earth in a dormant state.

Few cosmic entities in Marvel's Bronze Age carry quite the weight of mystery that the Dreaming Celestial does. Emerging from a 1980 What If? issue crafted by Peter Gillis and Herb Trimpe, this towering figure occupies the rarified space where Eternals mythology brushes up against the grandest scales of the Marvel universe — sharing pages with the likes of Ikaris, Uatu the Watcher, and even Spider-Man. Most at home in Eternals and cosmic corners like Silver Surfer Annual and Fantastic Four, the Dreaming Celestial has endured across more than four decades as one of those brooding, monumental presences that reminds readers just how vast and ancient the Marvel cosmos truly is.

★ First appearance
What If? #23
Oct 1980

Top series

Covers through the years — 1980–2024

What If? #23 1980
What If? #23
Silver Surfer Annual #2 1989
Silver Surfer Annual #2
Fantastic Four #25 2000
Fantastic Four #25
Eternals #5 2006
Eternals #5
Eternals #6 2009
Eternals #6
Ultimates 2 #6 2017
Ultimates 2 #6
Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus #[nn] 2024
Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus #[nn]

Appearances

What If? (1977)
#23
Silver Surfer Annual (1988)
#2
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964)
#23
Fantastic Four (1998)
#25
Eternals (2006)
Ultimates 2 (2017)
#6
Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus (2024)