A'lars
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Iron Man vol. 1 #55 (Feb 1973) |
| Created by | Jim Starlin (writer / artist) |
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| Alter ego | A'lars |
| Team affiliations | Eternals |
| Abilities | Superhuman stamina and durability Ability to project cosmic energy Molecular manipulation Telepathy |
Mentor (A'lars) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Iron Man vol. 1 #55, and was created by Jim Starlin.
Mentor is the leader of the Titanian colony. His back-story was based on Greek mythology. Some years later, he was retconned to be a member of the Eternals, a race in the Marvel Universe created by Jack Kirby, separately based on Greek mythology.
A'lars was the second son of Chronos and Daina, two of the first generation of Eternals, and was born eons ago in the city of Titanos in northern Asia. A'lars and his brother Zuras were raised in the aftermath of the great civil war which divided the first colony of Eternals. Their father Chronos, who was on the winning side of the civil war, toiled away in his laboratory attempting to discover the secrets of the self-regenerating cosmic life force that he felt his race was capable of attaining. A force field cylinder containing cosmic energy exploded, disintegrating Chronos' body and imparted immortality to all nearby Eternals. A'lars then became a scientist like his father.
A'lars and Zuras, both adults at the time of Chronos' death, held a general assembly to determine who would succeed him. The assembly chose Zuras, so A'lars chose to leave the colony to avoid the sort of fraternal rivalry that led Chronos and his brother Uranos to the first civil war. He settled on Saturn's moon Titan, taking over as leader of the underground colony that his uncle Uranos had built centuries earlier.
Upon arriving on Titan, A'lars discovered the Uranian Eternal Sui-San, the sole survivor of the civil war that destroyed the Eternals of Titan previously. Sui-San bore two children for Mentor, Thanos and Eros (later known as Starfox). Sui-San died in Thanos' first major attack against Titan.
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