After nearly 1,100 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We're revealing that list throughout the rest of the month. The countdown continues now...

35. Thanos – 413 points (7 first place votes)

Jim Starlin created Thanos as basically DC's answer to Jack Kirby's Darkseid, and he lived up to the billing, as Starlin used the villainous alien creature in a number of great cosmic stories.

Thanos was obsessed with Death (who was later interested in him enough to come to him, personified as a woman), so he would do anything to please her, so he devoted his life to, well, death.

He clashed many times with both Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, with his battles with the latter leading to Thanos' demise.

When you're friendly with Death, death is not permanent, and Thanos was soon loose, and this time looking for the Infinity Gauntlet, which he used to wipe out HALF the universe! He kicked some major ass with the Guantlet...

Ultimately, though, Thanos' plans were thwarted. Since then, Thanos has been a bit less willing to do all the murder stuff - he got a lot more laid back. This was just in time for Drax the Destroyer, a creature designed for the sole purpose of killing Thanos, to do the deed.

Thanos naturally returned and has died at least once more in recent years, but is naturally always eventually coming back to cause more trouble for the universe (while sometimes also doing some good along the way).

Thanos drew a good deal of prominence from his role as the main villain in the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame blockbuster films.

Starlin has been doing a series of graphic novels featuring the Mad Titan and he discussed his approach to the character with CBR...

"Well, there were different writers, and I sort of approach the character in a way I learnt from Jack Kirby," Starlin explained. "Jack told me early on that the Hulk was 'stupidity. The harder you beat on it, the stronger it becomes.' That's the basis of the Hulk. So when I came along and decided to do characters like Dreadstar or Thanos, I came with a theme ..."

"Thanos is desire that can never be satisfied," he continued. "So basically, his quest has always been 'Get what he wants no matter what the cost, and once he gets it it's not satisfying enough.' I mean, throughout his books he's managed to acquire omnipotence on multiple occasions. One time he left the Cosmic Cube around for Captain Marvel to smash, another time he let Nebula put it out of his hands. Other times he's just abandoned it because it just wasn't he wanted. These last stories I'm doing, these Thanos graphic novels, are approaching that on a whole new level. It's about him 'becoming' rather than 'acquiring,' which I find a little interesting way of approaching the problem."

34. Mister Fantastic – 446 points (6 first place votes)

Reed Richards (created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) is quite possibly the smartest man in the universe, although it was a mistake of his that led to him becoming one of the most FAMOUS men in the universe, as Richards led his college friend, Ben Grimm, his girlfriend, Sue Storm and her little brother, Johnny Storm, into a hidden mission aboard a spacecraft he had designed for hyperspace, but the government would not allow him to launch. Their journey ended with the four being bombarded by cosmic rays aboard the spacecraft, and upon their return to Earth, the quartet were each given fantastic powers. Reed gained the ability to stretch and contort his body into various shapes.

Reed convinced the other three to band together as a force to help humanity (while also constantly searching for a way to cure Ben, who was affected the most mercilessly by the radiation, turning him into a rocky thing of a man).

Mark Waid had a clever explanation behind Mister Fantastic taking on such a grandiose name...

Reed was heavily involved with the various "Incursions" that led to Secret Wars and when Secret Wars ended, he and his family initially stayed behind to recreate the Multiverse, but he has since returned to the Marvel Universe and the Fantastic Four are a team once again!

33. Vision – 462 points (11 first place votes)

Besides a one-off appearance by Wonder Man, the Vision (created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema) was the first Avenger to join the team who had actually debuted in the pages of the Avengers, and like Wonder Man, he was created by an enemy of the Avengers, but also like Wonder Man, the android Vision broke free of his controlling by the evil Ultron, and soon became a valuable member of the Avengers, which made the Vision so happy that he cried...

Vision eventually became basically the backbone of the team, as you could tell from the corner box, which often depicted only the Vision.

Vision began a romance with teammate, the Scarlet Witch, and the two became the second Avenger teammates to marry each other.

The two lived wedded bliss, even having twin boys, until double devastation happened.

Soon before their children were born, The Vision was injured and had his mind hooked up with an alien computer - the alien computer corrupted The Vision, leading him to attempt to take over the world (in the process, the Vision did create the West Coast Avengers, which existed for quite a long time afterwards). Although the Vision was basically cleared of all wrongdoing, some government officials disagreed, and awhile later, they kidnapped him and took him apart, resulting in him losing all emotion and feelings for the Scarlet Witch.

On the heels of this, it was revealed that their children were not real, as well!!

Now basically re-booted, the Vision continued on with the Avengers, and ultimately began to re-establish emotions, even pursuing a romance with his teammate, Carol Danvers.

However, when the Scarlet Witch went insane and tore the Avengers apart, one of her moves was to turn the Vision evil, leading to a berserk She-Hulk to tear him apart, apparently killing him.

A rebooted Vision showed up with the Young Avengers, made up of the remnants of Iron Lad's armor, but this Vision had no connection (besides visual) to the original Vision. The original Vision, though, was returned to life and the Young Avengers Vision was destroyed.

The Vision then received his first solo ongoing series by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta, where the synthezoid created his own suburban family to live a seemingly perfect life (his wife, Virginia, and his son, Vin, and his daughter, Viv), but things are shaken when the Grim Reaper suddenly attacked...

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Virginia, Vision's wife, then brutally murdered Grim Reaper to protect her family and the rest of the series became a taut psychological thriller, as Virginia does whatever she can to cover up her action and eventually pulls Vision down with her. It gets dark - very dark, but at the heart of it all is real emotional depth. These characters are doing these things because of love, or at least what they think is love.

King and Walta discussed the series with CBR after it ended:

“One of the things about Tom's scripts that I love the most is that he doesn't want to explain everything,” says Walta. “He leaves room to the reader to make his or her own conclusions. That doesn't mean that he hasn't got a plan, or that he isn't trying to tell you something, but in the end, he is not trying to tell you what to think.”

“In that sense,” Walta continues, “the ‘big question’ that I see more often reflected in the book is that there are no easy answers to anything that really matters. Many times you won't know what is clearly ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ but [readers] will have to make a decision.”

“‘Vision’ is not meant to be a book with easy answers,” stresses King, “It’s meant to be an interaction with the fans. There’s no grand moral. No one at the end to claim that this is what it’s all about. I purposesly left any of that out.”

32. Ms. Marvel – 495 points (12 first place votes)

Created by Sana Amanat, Stephen Wacker, G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is basically this generation's Spider-Man. She is a kind-hearted young woman who has been thrust into being a superhero and she has embraced the challenge with grace and aplumb, all while never losing what makes her such a special person in the first place (this, of course, is all balanced against her life growing up in a fairly conservative Muslim home in Jersey City). Here she is teaming up with Wolverine (during the period where his healing powers had cut out), showing off her unique outlook on life as they fight a giant mutated reptile...

G. Willow Wilson talked to CBR at the time of her introduction with some interesting thoughts on the character, "I thought it was cool that Marvel wanted to go out on that limb and take on such a risky character -- to take on a character that had those elements to her background. Kamala is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, so she's got this real tension between her very ordinary life as an American teenager, and also the expectations placed on her to be this very good, dutiful Muslim daughter by her loving but conservative parents.

For me, I was excited that they wanted to do a character like that, and take that risk, but at the same time I knew that we would have to get it exactly right. Whenever you do a character like this that is going to be somewhat controversial, but also could be interpreted to be just an act of tokenism, you really have to pay attention to detail and make sure that it's a character and a story worth telling, and a character that stands alone in their own right. I was excited, but also nervous, because I knew there was going to be extra scrutiny placed on a character wish such a controversial starting point. I really thought it was my job to make this the best possible book, and to put into the character all of -- not just the pathos, but the humor and the day-to-day quirkiness and drama that goes along with the very unique situation of being the child of immigrants, and balancing two worlds in one very young life. In a sense, there's kind of a Miles Morales parallel, I think."

Kamala has really grown into a major part of the Marvel Universe over the past few years, with a stint on both the Avengers and the Avengers spinoff team, the Champions. Currently, she even stars in Marvel Team-Up - putting her in rarefied air among Marvel characters, as not many heroes have ever starred in a team-up series (Spider-Man, Thing, Deadpool, Human Torch, Captain America and, believe it or not, Namor).

31. Moon Knight – 505 points (4 first place votes)

Created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin as a foe for the Werewolf to fight, Moon Knight has become one of the cooler mercenary heroes in the Marvel Universe. Moon Knight, for a character who has not had a whole lot of solo success over the years, has had an inordinate amount of classic runs, beginning with the original creative team on his first ongoing series, Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz was in the midst of experimenting with his style and he developed his iconic sort of mixed-media approach to artwork while he was drawing that first ongoing series. Moon Knight serves the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu, and over the years, he has also developed multiple personalities.

During an acclaimed run on the book, Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev explored the idea of Moon Knight hallucinating Captain America, Wolverine and Spider-Man and conversing with them (while also sometimes taking on their personalities, as well). Most recently, Jeff Lemire did some remarkable work following in the revamped version of the character that Warren Ellis came up with a few years back.

In the Ellis and Declan Shalvey, there's an amazing scene where Moon Knight runs afoul of some ghosts. How do you fight GHOSTS? Khonshu knows!

So epic. Moon Knight is soon set to star in his own TV series for Disney+, so he will likely be getting a big push to prominence again in the Marvel Universe.