While testing weapons with the United States Army in Journey into Mystery #86 (Sep 1962), Thor witnesses a time traveller from the future who steals a cobalt bomb and disappears in to the future, leaving only a fragment of strange metal. In desperation, Thor summons Odin, his father in Asgard, who appears and tells him […]
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Journey Into Mystery #85 (Aug 1962) begins to build out Thor’s mythology by introducing Asgard, the rainbow bridge Bifrost, and Thor’s biggest nemesis: Loki, god of mischief. Poor Loki has been trapped in a tree until someone sheds a tear. Along comes ol’ Heimdall, Bifrost’s Warder, and Loki is able to manipulate one of his […]
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Thor gains a supporting cast member in his next adventure in Journey into Mystery #84 (July 1962): Jane Nelson (not Foster, yet). Jane is Dr. Donald Blake’s sweet, easily-smitten girl who doesn’t have much to do, keeping in that early 1960s Marvel tradition of very poorly written female characters (looking at you, Sue Storm). Donald […]
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Spider-Man wasn’t the only Marvel hero getting started this month. In fact June 1962 was a big month for Marvel on the newsstand with The Mighty Thor debuting in Journey into Mystery #83. I can’t call this one a great origin story, it’s on the lame side (heh heh). Frail, handicapped Doctor Donald Blake is […]
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Comic books from Atlas/Marvel Comics on sale in September 1960 include more giant monsters: Rorgg (King of the Spider Men), The Scarecrow, Colossus (no, not that one), and Thorr (no, not that one).
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A nice little archaeological find in DC’s Tales of the Unexpected #16 (June 1957): Jack Kirby brings us a short story called “The Magic Hammer”. In it, a nasty prospector discovers Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, and uses it to summon rain and build himself a crooked fortune. Eventually Thor comes to claim the hammer, telling the […]
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In The Brave and the Bold #3 (October 1955), Jon the Viking Prince rescues Captain Olaf from Baron Thorvold using a hammer he claims he finds in the sea and claims it is Thor’s. Unfortunately it is just trickery and not really Mjolnir. [Yup, three years after starting this blog, and over 8 months since […]
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In June 1955, DC premieres an important new anthology comic book: The Brave & The Bold #1. Starting off as an anthology series, the book features three new heroes plucked from historical fiction, the best of which is The Viking Prince. The other two were Silent Knight and the Golden Gladiator. The Viking Prince was […]
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Wow, my 500th entry! It’s hard to believe I’ve been doing this for almost two years! I’m happy to see that I’m well into what I am calling the “Early Silver Age”, where many of the horror and science fictions stories are interesting, even if superheroes themselves have faded down to just a few exceptions. […]
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In Whiz Comics #50 (December 1943), Thor and Loki make an appearance over in the Ibis the Invincible story. Loki appears to cause mischief and Ibis summons Thor and his hammer Molnir to deal with him.
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