Although some of the trailers we've seen for Avengers: Infinity War seem to indicate we'll be seeing the origin of Thanos, the film's "big bad," to steal a Buffy the Vampire Slayer phrase, it seems the backstory for the cosmic villain won't be seen in the movie after all. Instead, Marvel Studios is taking another approach to revealing Thanos' intricate and complex history.
According to the folks at io9, this coming November, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is taking a page from Star Wars, and is expanding into the medium of prose, with its first, officially canon tie-in novel. Writer Barry Lyga will bring us Thanos—Titan Consumed, which should tide fans over during the long year between Avengers films. You can read the official synopsis, and check out the cover art, down below: Space. Reality. Mind. Power. Time. Soul. Before creation itself, there were six singularities. Then the universe exploded into existence, and the remnants of these systems were forged into concentrated ingots…
Infinity Stones. Only beings of immense power can hope to wield these stones, but for those who are worthy, the powers of a god await. Thanos is one such being. But he wasn’t always. Born on a doomed world and cast out by his people for his genius, physical deviancy, and pragmatic but monstrous ideas, Thanos is determined to save the galaxy from the same fate as his homeworld… no matter how many billions have to die.
Learn the origins of the most formidable foe the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and Black Panther have ever faced—a foe whom even a group of remarkable people, pulled together to fight the battles nobody else could, will fail to stop. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives. Thanos is here.

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