Publication history
Corvus Glaive was created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Jim Cheung, and first appeared in Infinity: Free Comic Book Day (May 2013). [1]
The character was described by Hickman as "Thanos' most favored. Corvus is cruel, arrogant and the most loyal of the Black Order. A warrior who betrayed his people and sold his soul to Thanos to pursue a different kind of glory". [2]
Editor Tom Breevort has said:
He was the one character among the generals who was designed by Jim, and he was designed by Jim specifically because this story was being done and Jim had to get to him first. In essence, this is no different than any other design challenge. Jonathan laid the particulars of the characters out on the table, Jim went to town and did a few designs — different roughs for the head and so forth. We selected from that and away he went. He's the most prominent of the five lieutenants. He's Thanos' second-in-command and the one who most readily speaks for him, and yet you want him to have a certain amount of visual contrast to Thanos. While Thanos is a fairly big, blocky character and really became that over the years, Corvus — he's not skinny, but he's more slender, more lithe, more wiry — sort of in reflection of the glaive weapon that he carries. He's like the physical personification of that in a sense. [2]
Fictional character biography
Corvus Glaive is a member of Thanos' Black Order. He was chosen for his mastery in combat and tactical abilities and thus was chosen to lead the group. He is also the husband of fellow order member Proxima Midnight. His first order is to attack Earth to please his master. [3] He attacks the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, but is called away when Ebony Maw finds Thanos' son Thane. [4] Corvus is obliterated by Hyperion while Thane overpowers the group and freezes Thanos and Proxima in amber. [5] However, Corvus revives himself using his glaive. [6] [7]
Corvus meets up with Namor, who frees Proxima and Thanos, and asks that they join his Cabal due to his own anger towards Earth. [8] However, Namor soon finds himself hating the Cabal's tactics and vows to work with the Illuminati to defeat them. Namor is betrayed, with him and the Cabal being trapped in a universe that is going to be destroyed. They all manage to escape into the Ultimate Marvel universe and vow to get revenge. [9] The Cabal members escape the destruction of the multiverse via a life raft and end up on Battleworld. [10]
Corvus returns to his own universe when the multiverse is restored and forms his own version of the Black Order, slowly building his army all over the galaxy. [11] However, Thanos returns and confronts Corvus. Not wanting to be killed by Thanos, Corvus kills himself using the pieces of his destroyed glaive. [12]
Corvus Glaive later returns from the dead when the Black Order is reformed by Challenger. Corvus and the Order face off against an alien version of the Lethal Legion formed by Grandmaster in a contest where Earth is the battlefield. [13]
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