Edge & Christian posted:

I assume you can based on your response, but when I was a kid if you read a comic book and the big cliffhanger was OH NO, THANOS IS BACK, if you didn't know who Thanos was I guess you could ask your friends, or dig up the Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe, or try to remember what fanzine had an article about Thanos in their Jim Starlin spotlight issue or something, I guess?

Now you can type THANOS into a search engine and get lots and lots of information about who Thanos is and why people were excited to see Thanos and probably read some classic Thanos stories for cheap/free.