Cosmic Cube

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Official Name

Cosmic Cube

Model

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Creators

Stan Lee; Jack Kirby

Creators

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

First appearance

Tales of Suspense #79
(July, 1966)

History

The Cosmic Cubes are items that control matter and energy, answering to the will of the sentient beings that use them. They require practice to be used properly, but a skillful user can alter all reality to answer to its thought, granting anything they desire.

Most Cosmic Cubes are cube-shaped matrices. However, similar objects with different shapes are known as Cosmic Containment Units.

Sentient beings wanting to create a Cosmic Cube must generate a force field to open a rift to another dimension inhabited by the Beyonders, allowing the extra-dimensional energy to filter through the rift. When entering the Earth's dimension, the energies can be held in a matrix, and the force itself would shape the matrix into a perfect cube. It would also provide the Cube with its almost-unlimited power.

A Cube would eventually develop its own intelligence, commonly influenced by the beings who had manipulated it. Mephisto has postulated that the Cubes are hosts to a semi-sentient will and that, even in Cube form, they can choose how they want to be used, and deny certain wishes. Mephisto also has proposed that a billion-sentient universally-linked will could overcome this problem, and that the Cubes could be as powerful as the Infinity Gems.

Known Cosmic Cubes

Known Cosmic Cubes include:

The Skrull Cosmic Cube, who evolved to become the Shaper of Worlds

AIM Cosmic Cube, who evolved to become Kubik

The Beyonder, who shared his Cosmic Cube power with the Molecule Man

A splinter of a Cosmic Cube was shaped into Freedom Ring's power ring

A sliver of a Cosmic Cube was the original artifact that allowed the Super-Adaptoid to use its power-duplicating capabilities -up to and including copying the entirety of powers of a real Cosmic Cube

Kree Cosmic Cube

Five Cosmic Cubes from nearby universes were reunited by Magus

Those five plus other twenty-five were reunited by the Goddess

A malfunctional Cube was given to Mephisto by Thanos as a payment for his knowledge

A Cube used to recharge Green Lantern's power ring - although only when the other options were unavailable

In the Ultimate Universe, Reed Richards began working on a Cosmic Cube in case Thanos would return

You might also be looking for TSR Inc.'s RPG adventure Cosmos Cubed

A.I.M. is creating a Cosmic Cube for Hydra.

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See Also

• 101 Appearances of Cosmic Cube
• 8 Images featuring Cosmic Cube
• Item Gallery: Cosmic Cube
• Fan-Art Gallery: Cosmic Cube

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