After the events in Thanos Quest, the story continues in Silver Surfer #44 where Thanos has embedded them into one of his gauntlets creating The Infinity Gauntlet.
After experiencing his new found god hood he realizes that he must remove the nuisance who is the Silver Surfer. (In Silver Surfer #34-38 the Surfer has the vision of Thanos being resurrected. Thanos seeks out the Surfer to convince him to join him in his cause but the Surfer does not buy into it and tries to stop him. Drax is also resurrected who's soul purpose is to destroy Thanos.) Thanos opens a portal to between him, the Surfer, and Drax. Drax sees Thanos and immediately runs to fulfill his life purpose and the Surfer tries to stop him knowing that it's a trap but both get sucked in. Drax and Silver Surfer both fall confused as to what happened. When Drax gets over his confusion he looks to Thanos and goes after him. Thanos tells Drax (Condescendingly) to calm down and to quite shouting. He then shows Surfer and Drax the prehistoric era of the planet they are on and then the last day. At first Silver Surfer and Drax believe it to be an illusion but then realize it truly is reality. Thanos boasts his use of the Time Gem and changes its color to orange.
After we see the three over New York then the planet once more confusing the Silver Surfer. He points out that he did not sense any teleportation and that could not be. We then see Thanos circled around the Surfer and Drax saying that it is true that we (the multiple Thanos') could be anywhere and nowhere, distance no meaning anymore because of the Space Gem and turns it purple.
After his demonstration of his control over space Drax begins to yell Thanos then attacks the Silver Surfer stating he will kill him. Thanos explains that he has manipulated the very essence of his soul. Leaving the center gem of the gauntlet green.
While Drax has the Surfer by the throat Thanos explains how he finds it funny how in the last moments, their life flashes before their eyes but it was not the body responding to the impending doom it was Thanos who was manipulating the Surfer's mind with the gem. Thanos then turns the Mind gem blue.
Then Thanos demonstrates the power of the Reality stone by twisting the very fabric around them then turning the stone yellow.
Lastly we see Drax and Silver Surfer trying to escape the grasp of a large Thanos telling them that they must accept what they have seen and nothing is impossible for him and he may do anything with the cosmos for he also controls all the power in the universe and changes the Power gem red.
After showing off his new found power the Silver Surfer is still in denial and calls Thanos a liar. Thanos, with all sincerity, tells Surfer that what he has seen was all true and he could do nothing to stop him. Silver Surfer and Drax try to stop him but their defeat is inevitable. With the Surfer and Drax at his feet Thanos boasts his power, his invincibility, and he who is now a supreme being and none can challenge his godly might. (A quick summary of Silver Surfer #45, we see Mephisto has been keeping an eye on Thanos and foolishly devises a plot to steal the gauntlet. Mephisto appears to Thanos and bows and "submits" himself as a humble servant. Thanos turns him away but Mephisto persists on becoming his servant and is willing to "prove" it. Thanos transports them both to a barren planet and Mephisto tells Thanos to open his mind to the stones and to truly understand what they are capable of. While Thanos is in a "daze" of his new found knowledge, Mephisto grabs the gauntlet and prides himself on besting the new god. But it was only an illusion. The gauntlet grabs Mephisto by the throat and Thanos breaks the image in Mephisto's mind. Thanos is holding Mephisto by the throat and asks him did he really believe he could so easily deceive him. Thanos drop Mephisto and the Lord of the Underworld, on his hands and knees, pleads for forgiveness and (this time) truly asks to serve Thanos.) And so starts the Infinity Gauntlet event.
(Quick note, there are a few more issues that cover what happened to Silver Surfer and Drax and their time in the Soul Gem, their encounter with Adam Warlock, and Silver Surfer crashing into Dr. Strange's Sanctum, but I won't be discussing those.)
Infinity Gauntlet starts off with Mephisto praising Thanos and asking what he can do to serve him while standing on a ledge looking at a giant rock formation spelling "GOD." Thanos tells Mephisto to silence himself and that soon the universe will be unable to deny Thanos the title of a Cosmic God. Next we see Silver Surfer crash into the Sanctum Sanctorum (The home of Dr. Strange). The Sanctorum's alarm goes off and Strange gets ready to fight the "stranger" that is on his way. Surfer crashes threw the ceiling to Strange's surprise. The Surfer moans in pain for Dr. Strange that he needs to warn him about Thanos and informs him of his visions and his confrontation with the new god. Then it cuts back to Thanos telling Mephisto that he pondered what he would do with his new found power and thought he would loose himself in the myriad of questions what he would do with it and the answer is anything he wants for a God makes no mistakes and blows up the planet they were on. It then cuts to Surfer explaining what happened in Silver Surfer #34-38 and Thanos Quest. We then see Pip the Troll talking about how he, a woman and Adam Warlock gained physical bodies after being the Soul Gem (you will read more about them later). Three "Grade-A Losers" were coming out of a bar plastered drunk. They were running from the police and took a back road. The driver forgot about a turn and drove right off the cliff. The crash killed them instantly allowing Adam, the woman, and Pip to inhabit their bodies. The woman and Pip freak out about how they are disfigured but Adam reassures them that his healing abilities were repairing their bodies and changing their biology to suit them. We then turn to see Thanos and Mephisto appearing in the Hall of Death so Thanos could once more show his love. Thanos asks Mistress Death if she would forgive him of taking his gift of resurrection to find the Infinity Gems. Death turns on him and Thanos tells her it was never his intention to wrong her and believes he did not. Yes he sought out the gems to become a supreme being but only to become her equal, one he would be worthy of her love. Death's herald informs him that Mistress Death is not his equal and that he is her superior. To Thanos, she is nothing more than a love slave to him. This is the exchange between Thanos and her herald:
T: But she is the keeper of my heart!H: How can she find such status any less stifling? You love is bondage.
T: My love is worship!
H: The Mistress if the Hall of Dead has no need for sycopaths.
T: NO!! You are wrong! Death should be revered! Shrines should be built to her!Thanos then has the idea to build a shrine
He summons two thrones for himself and his Mistress but she still turns away from him. Mepshisto suggests that maybe the Mistress does not realize the depths of his black soul is achieving. She is a Dark Spirit and her mate must be like her. So to prove his likeness of her he brings the body of his
"so called grand daughter" to the edge of life and death. Her body mangled and destroyed but conscience to what was going on around her. But still Mistress is not impressed by his antics. Her herald tells him that she finds his boasts empty and distasteful. Thanos looks at the herald with disgust and obliterates it. With anger in his voice, he demands that she addresses him directly or not at all. Telling her that he does not understand her attitude toward him and that all he asks is her love and approval and asks what he has done to deserve such rejection. Mephisto whispers to Thanos that maybe it's not what he has done but what he has NOT done. Thanos then remembers the duty that his Mistress tasked him with. He realizes that his quest and his love for Death had clouded his mind from what he was charged to due. He walks to the edge of the shrine raises his hand and snaps his fingers. We then see various Marvel characters witnessing the disappearance of others. It then goes back to Pip talking about how they were adjusting to their new bodies and then as he was admiring himself the woman disappeared. Pip freaked out and looked for the woman and when he realized she was really gone he rushed into Adam's room to find him in a chrysalis.
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