Re: Are Thanos and Darkseid the Same Person?
Both are Kirby creations.
EDIT Whoops Thanos is a Starlin creation. From Iron Man of all places.
EDIT part two;Starlin has admitted the character is influenced by Jack Kirby's Darkseid:[TABLE=class: cquote]
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[TD]Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. He was over at DC at the time. I came up with some things that were inspired by that. You'd think that Thanos was inspired by Darkseid, but that was not the case when I showed up. In my first Thanos drawings, if he looked like anybody, it was Metron. I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. Roy took one look at the guy in the Metron-like chair and said : "Beef him up! If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip off Darkseid, the really good one!"[3][/TD]
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