Marvel Universe The End

Marvel Universe The End

Marvel Universe The End

As the 1970s arrived Marvel Comics found itself heading in a new direction. Younger artists and writers came on board and the company began to experiment with virtually any comic book concept that the new talent could come up with.

Roy Thomas, Writer, Assistant Editor, Historian

When Roy Thomas had come on board at Marvel Comics he assumed the responsibility of tracking and cataloging the continuity of its characters. If a writer had a question about where a character had been at a particular point Thomas was the man to go to. This meticulous attention to detail became the hallmark or Marvel’s style of comic books and Thomas oversaw it all.

Thomas became an unofficial Assistant Editor and made sure that all of the experimenting and chaotic new writing maintained itself within the overall continuity of Marvel Comics. Nowhere was that more apparent than in 1971s massive Avengers story “The Kree-Skrull War”.