Galactus fans love to argue that Galactus is so powerful because he should be based on his importance to the universe, not that he is so powerful because he is shown to be. I'm a Galactus fan, but come on, the guy unfortunately has been beaten over and over again.
Wishful thinking does not an argument make. Evidence is what you need. Now Galactus has never fought a Celestial in 616 continuity, but they have had mutual foes. Thor has been able to hurt Galactus, both times in their first fight, in FF #243, and their latest in Mighty Thor #4, but Thor has never been able to do much against Celestials. He absorbed the power of a planet into Mjolnir and hit Arishem with it for no effect. Thor made Galactus flee with the godblast, but it only made Exitar notice him. Ego the Living Planet has beaten Galactus, yet a newborn Celestial was able to conquer Ego. Cosmic cube entities have said that Celestials are many orders of magnitude more powerful than they are, but Reed Richards using a cosmic cube was able to defeat Dr. Doom with Galactus' power. Most recently, Odin was able to knock out Galactus briefly, but he couldn't do anything to Arishem when Odin had Zeus and Vishnu at his side. Scans for most of the above evidence can be found here:
http://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=comicbattles-2010062822451345
I'm sorry, but Galactus just has overall lower showings than Celestials, and one of the reasons why is stated in the editorial page posted before. At least initially, Celestials were created to be above Galactus, and Galactus' win-loss record isn't that wonderful. G alactus keeps getting outsmarted by Reed Richards, needed Thor and Hercules' help to defeat Ego, got chronic indigestion from the Impossible Man, got beaten by Dire Wraiths, got beaten by Thor, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, and the FF, had Dr. Doom steal his power twice, was nearly killed by the Elders of the Universe (only to be saved by the Surfer), was beaten by Alpha Flight and the Avengers in another dimension, was embarrassed by Adam Warlock in front of Galactus' cosmic peers, was beaten by the Rachel Summers Phoenix, was bounced across the landscape by Thanos, got beaten by Aegis and Tenebrous and made Annihilus' captive, was nearly starved to death by Beta Ray Bill, and was poisoned by a son of Hulk. The Celestials in all their existence have only had two low showings - when Exitar was destroyed by the Invisible Woman through a plot device and when Jean Grey with the Phoenix Force and the psi-energy of a planet pushed back a Celestial host. Finally, Galactus was shown as being afraid of the Dreaming Celestial, so the preponderance of evidence points to Celestials being more powerful than Galactus.
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