Jim Starlin  is an American comics artist and writer. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for “cosmic” tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Mar-Vell and Adam Warlock; for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Later, for DC Comics, he drew many of their iconic characters, especially Darkseid and other characters from Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. For Epic Illustrated he created his own character, Dreadstar