Tempus

Tempus is a powerful time-related entity who serves the Time-Keepers, cosmic beings who safeguard temporal order in the Marvel Universe. Acting as their enforcer, Tempus can manipulate time itself and first clashed with Thor while carrying out his masters' cosmic agenda.

Stepping out of the Bronze Age in the pages of Thor #282 (1979), Tempus is one of Marvel's more enigmatic figures — a character whose very name hints at the temporal threads running through their comic book existence. Debuting under the hands of Alan Kupperberg and Frank Springer, Tempus has kept genuinely rarefied company over the decades, sharing adventures with the likes of Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and the time-entangled Nathaniel Richards across titles like Avengers Forever and Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective. With appearances spanning an impressive 34 years and a collector-significant key issue to their name, this is a character whose modest page count belies a surprisingly deep footprint in Marvel's more cosmically ambitious corners. For readers drawn to the stranger, time-touched edges of the Marvel Universe, Tempus is a rewarding discovery.