Welcome to Marvelous Disney with Aaron Adams, the podcast that discusses the most recent

doings at one of the more dynamic divisions of the Walt Disney Company, which is of course,

Marvel Entertainment. This is an entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, The Amazing Aaron

Adams, and I are recording this week's episode on Wednesday, September 13th, 2023.

Aaron, I don't know if you saw the news that broke like, and now it's like five hours ago,

but the big news, like, not just Hulk big, we're talking Thanos big, maybe Galactus big, and

and by the way, I had no idea till just tonight that Galactus was once a human-sized figure.

Did you know about this? No, I missed that in my Galactus schooling.

Okay, that was huge, that was it. Same thing here, same thing here, but I was

out pulling the other tonight's episode. I found out that this devourer of worlds was once a

space explorer called Galen from the planet Ta who gained cosmic abilities by passing too close

to a star, and evidently this tale unfolded over two issues of the Thor comic book issue 168

back in July of 1969, and then issue 169, which was published in October of that same year,

script by Sandley, ink by Jack Kirby, here's the logline, Thor, always honorable,

is deemed worthy to learn the origin of Galactus. Out of mortal death comes a birth of cosmic energy,

the history of Galactus, as told by Galactus, revealed to Marvel readers at long last,

and you know, you know from just the way that's written, that stand, you know, of course. Yeah,

I mean, nobody could hype quite like stand. Although it would have been great if they would have

tied it into what does that money python skip, where the guy goes through restaurant and eats

and eats and eats, and then the waiter offers just one thin mint with them to finish it off,

and boom Galactus. Yeah, yeah, Mr. Kree, so yeah, there you go. Thank you. Actually, I have been

two meals with friends. It's just one way for thin mint. So, oh yeah, yeah. But anyway, if you

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