Drax the Destroyer
Few characters embody the cosmic ambition of Marvel's Bronze Age quite like Drax the Destroyer, who burst onto the scene in Jim Starlin's Captain Marvel #30 in 1974 — part of that visionary creator's sweeping reimagining of the Marvel cosmos. Over more than five decades of publication, Drax has proven himself one of the great enduring figures of Marvel's outer-space mythology, racking up 217 catalog appearances and six collector-significant key issues along the way. He's a character who keeps extraordinary company — sharing pages with Thanos, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Star-Lord, and Groot across titles like Guardians of the Galaxy, Silver Surfer, and Captain Marvel — placing him at the very heart of Marvel's cosmic storytelling for generations. If you love big, bold, universe-spanning adventures with a character who has genuine history and weight behind him, Drax is absolutely worth your time.
Trivia
- In the late 1970s, Drax's origin was retroactively rewritten so he had once been an Earth man, a change that made his backstory unusually convoluted even by Marvel standards.writeups.org
- Marvel's official character history says Drax once received the Power Gem, making him one of the few comic characters explicitly tied to the Infinity Gems long before the MCU made them famous.writeups.org
- Jim Starlin has written more of Drax the Destroyer's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 26 issues.
Covers through the years — 2013–2022
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