Monday, January 25, 2021

Marvel Immersion Project: Thor #357-360

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Thor #357
Originally Published July 10, 1985
Writer and Artist: Walter Simonson
  • Thor leads Frigga and the Asgardian children on the long walk back home.
  • Back in New York, Sif and Bill battle the GLF who are trying to rob a bank.
  • Cameo: Power Pack
  • Loki gives Lorelei a gift to bring Thor back under her spell.
  • The Enchantress plots revenge against her sister Lorelei for the latter's refusal to help in the battle against Surtur.

Thor #358
August 10, 1985
Walter Simonson
  • Thor is back under Lorelei's spell.  She convinces Thor that Loki should be King of Asgard.
  • Meanwhile, the Enchantress has cast her own spell on Lorelei so that the latter falls in love with Loki when she sees him.
  • Beta Ray Bill battles the GLF.  When the GLF learns their leader is Titanium Man, they turn against him.
  • Featured: The Scourge of the Underworld. 

Thor #359
September 10, 1985
Walter Simonson
  • Heimdall and friends discover Lorelei's spell over Thor and set out to free him from it.  
  • Thor, still enchanted, goes to Loki's castle and finds his brother and Lorelei in bed together. 
  • Thor flies into a rage and nearly kills Loki but the latter frees the former from Lorelei's enchantment just in time.
  • Now Thor must bring the Asgardians home from Earth.

Thor #360
October 10, 1985
Walter Simonson
  • The warriors are finally brought home to Asgard.
  • Thor wishes to go to Hel to free the mortals trapped there.
Angrboða via God of War Wiki

  • He asks Angerboda (based on Angrboða, the mother of monsters in Norse mythology) to tell him the way.

4 comments:

  1. oh, man... Power Pack.
    Some of the stuff in the 80s was... Weird is not always the word for it, but it's just kind of like, "What were they thinking?"
    I mean, sure, the Muppet Babies, there were also the X-Babies.

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    1. Probably someone in marketing told them that babies and puppies are the can't lose choices in advertising and they went to town with it.

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