Eternals (comics)
| Eternals | |
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Cover art for Eternals vol 4, #1.
Art by Daniel Acuña. |
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| Species publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Eternals #1 (July 1976) |
| Created by | Jack Kirby (writer - artist) |
| Characteristics | |
| Notable members | List of Eternals |
| The Eternals or Eternals | |
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Cover of The Eternals vol. 1, 1 (Jul, 1976). Art by Jack Kirby. |
| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format |
(vol. 1 & 4) Ongoing series (vol. 2 & 3) Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(vol. 1) July 1976 – January 1978 (vol. 2) October 1985 – September 1986 (vol. 3) August 2006 – March 2007 (vol. 4) August 2008 – March 2009 |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1) 19, 1 Annual (vol. 2) 12 (vol. 3) 7 (vol. 4) 9, 1 Annual |
| Collected editions | |
| Jack Kirby's Eternals Omnibus | |
| Neil Gaiman's Eternals (hardcover) | |
| To Slay A God | |
The Eternals are a fictional race of superhumans appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are described as an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth. The original instigators of this process, the alien Celestials, intended the Eternals to be the defenders of Earth, which leads to the inevitability of war against their destructive counterparts, the Deviants. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby and made their first appearance in The Eternals #1 (July 1976).
In 1970, Jack Kirby left Marvel Comics to work at DC Comics, where he began the saga of the New Gods, an epic story involving mythological and science fiction concepts, and planned to have a definite ending. However, the saga was left incomplete after the cancellation of the titles involved. Kirby began The Eternals when he returned to Marvel. The Eternals' saga was thematically similar to the New Gods', and the series was also eventually canceled without resolving many of its plots. Writers Roy Thomas and Mark Gruenwald used the Eternals in a Thor storyline that climaxed in Thor #301, resolving those lingering plotlines. Subsequent to the Thor storyline, the Eternals (and the mythology connected to them) have appeared or been mentioned in numerous Marvel comics. In particular, the Celestials' experiment on humanity has been used to explain how certain humans can develop super-powers. The Titanians (created by Jim Starlin) and Uranians (created by Stan Lee) were later retconned as being Eternals as well.
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