Thanos Rising
Marvel · 2013 · 5 issues
About the series
Marvel’s 2013 miniseries Thanos Rising is a five-issue origin saga written by Jason Aaron, with lush, operatic art by Simone Bianchi. It traces the Mad Titan’s earliest days on Titan, exploring his fraught relationships with his father A’Lars (Mentor), his mother Sui-San, and the cosmic entity Death, while revealing the seeds of his monstrous ambition. This series matters for deepening Thanos’s mythos with a tragic, psychologically rich backstory that redefined the character for modern readers.