Marvel The End continuity question

[toz1960]

Just re-read this mini series the other day and it got me thinking(see,comics are educational).

Brief recap: Thanos once again acquires the ultimate power,this time from something called The Heart of The Universe.With this power now his he discovers the universe has a disease and not even he can cure it.It seems that it all started when Wonderman was brought back from the dead and with each succesive resurection of heroes,the disease gets worse.When the uber-powerful beings of the Marvel Universe(Infinity,Eternity,Glactus,etc...) confront Thanos to relinquish his new found power,he wipes them out by asorbing them(at least that's how I took it) and finally he asorbs the entire universe except for Warlock,who just happens to be in a different reality.They talk and Thanos "remakes" the universe with all the heroes as they should be,BUT,nobody can be now brought back from the dead.

Question 1.Is this part of the Marvel continuity or just an imiganiry DC type story?

Question 2.Has any Marvel characters been killed or brought back since this series came out?

Question 3.If this event has occured in the regular MU is it cannon?

Question 4. Do any of the current Marvel staff know or even care about the past enough to provide some continuity? This is why I always prefered Marvel over DC.

Question 6. Will this have any bearing on Steve Rogers staying dead?

Question 7. Is this too many questions?

[marvelguy]

Good questions, Toz. I'll have to dig this series out and re-read them. However, I don't know whether The End series is canon or not but with the Heart of the Universe existing before this story takes place is a good question, however.

[geezer]

It always seemed to me that the series was set in Marvel continuity and was cannon but there have definitely been heroes bought back from the dead since (eg, Wolverine & Northstar in the "Enemy of the State" storyline). I think that the story was just quickly forgotten once Quesada backtracked on his "dead is dead" policy. #bash2#

[jaydeebee]

I don't believe that the various "THE END" series were set in the "present" Marvel Universe but rather in a possible future of the Marvel Universe and therefore they were not in continuity, but could be in continuity in the future...and as always, there's the ever-present chance that I have no idea what I'm talking about. But that's how I read them to be.

[stupidman]

Wikipedia says (yes, I know, it's Wikipedia): " It was written and penciled by Jim Starlin and inked by Al Milgrom. Marvel: The End is part of the The End line of comics, and is thus far the only publication in that line to actually occur in the actual Marvel Universe (Earth-616). The other various The End stories are just possible futures."

[marvelguy]

Wikipedia says (yes, I know, it's Wikipedia): " It was written and penciled by Jim Starlin and inked by Al Milgrom. Marvel: The End is part of the The End line of comics, and is thus far the only publication in that line to actually occur in the actual Marvel Universe (Earth-616). The other various The End stories are just possible futures."

#popcorn#

Now, now, Joe Q must have a hand in this.

[Gameboy]

Apparently, after the series came out, JQ made it a policy that at Marvel, "dead is dead" and some writers were denied the use of characters they wished to "resurrect". Apparently, at some point JQ must have relented. (I'm guessing when Colossus came back.)