Ah, time it was, and what a time it was. When the Marvel "universe" was still thought of as a single coherent piece, and different writers and editors would not use their books to undercut what was happening elsewhere. Chris and Dave here using Galactus to show how formidable the Earth is in the cosmic scheme of things is a far cry from Galactus-as-punching-back, merely a foil for showing how tough the writer's characters are.

(The editor told me that something he had to put up with almost every month was some writer or other coming into his office with a plot pitch that began "So Wonder Woman gets raped. . . " Again and again this came up! The editor's response eventually became "Would you do this story with Superman or Batman?" Of course, the answer was "NO!!")

Too many times over the years I have seen writers tear down other people's stories, using their own, unrelated books as platforms. "I don't like that story, so I will undo it!"