Thor continues to travel around Earth, but he is kidnapped by Rock Trolls as he sleeps. Upon waking, Thor battles the Rock Trolls until Ulik arrives. The two fight to a standstill, but Mjolnir is soon magnetically stolen through a slab of uru metal. Thor beats back Ulik and rushes to reclaim Mjolnir, but not before it is dropped into an infernal fire. With no options left, Thor casts himself into the fire after his weapon...
Thor struggles through the flames to retrieve Mjolnir, and upon eventually doing so, he escapes to find the Rock Trolls vanished. He follows them quickly through their tunnels to Earth and confronts Ulik and his forces with the help of his allies. After defeating Ulik and sending the Trolls flying, Thor renews his search for Balder.
He returns to Asgard for the first time since his exile. Upon finding the realm devoid of Asgardians, Thor and his companions discover a race of sentient lizards - the Sssth. Their leader reveals to them that the Asgardians were kidnapped by another alien race - the Vrellnexians - and are being sold into slavery on another planet. Thor and his group go with them to this planet and attack the crowd of aliens who are bidding for none other than Odin's life. Though Thor is victorious, their lizard allies suddenly turn against them and prepare to attack.
He attacks the horde of Sssth despite Odin's pleas, but the lizards prove too many and Thor is knocked out while fighting Sssthgar. He awakens in a dungeon among over prisoners, but is able to knock aside his provided meal - which he discovers is drugged - and free himself. The only others who were not drugged, Hildegarde and Tana Nile, are similarly freed and the three sneak about the Golden Star. They encounter hidden aliens willing to help them, and the group splits up - both sneaking up and disarming Sssthgar and freeing the rest of the Asgardians simultaneously. Thor and his companions then leave the planet, but he intentionally leaves Sssthgar behind among the aliens whom he once enslaved.
He guides a cosmic ship of the Sssth into the Dark Nebula in search of Sif and Karnilla. What he discovers is an asteroid manned by three hostile miners, who reveal they are in the midst of a siege by the Gramosians. Mercurio and his forces then appear to combat the Asgardians, leading to a battle that is only interrupted by the appearance of a huge red jewel that Sif and Karnilla are trapped within. A mental voice warns Thor to stay back, or be destroyed.
He listens to Xorr's warnings and can do naught to attack because of Sif and Karnilla's entombment within the God-Jewel. They are plunged into a cavern and form a temporary alliance with Mercurio to allow them all to escape. They battle the now hypnotised miners and reach the surface, but a spaceship piloted by the lead miners has taken hold of the God-Jewel and is flying away. They pursue the ship, and Thor destroys their weaponry with Mjolnir, allowing the Asgardians to eventually catch up. Thor reaches the God-Jewel and is about to break it when Xorr appears and states that destroying the Jewel would only bring death to Sif.
He succeeds in keeping his allies from attacking Xorr, apart from Mercurio who battles Thor and then retreats. He can only wait and speak with Sif, until Mercurio returns with a Gramosian force and renews battle with Thor. Soon after, Mercurio seeks an alternative to combat and Thor works with him to free Sif and Karnilla and escape the God-Jewel before Xorr harnesses the power of a star going supernova. Their plan succeeds and they escape with Sif and Karnilla.
He and his band return to Asgard to find imposters in their place. He discovers their falsehood because the other Thor does not carry Mjolnir, but battle begins before he can point this out. Thor fights his own duplicate, then Heimdall's, until the true villain, Igron is revealed, and traps Thor and Sif. Balder, however, sneaks up and knocks out the distracted Igron. The imposters then fade, but Odin tells Thor of a new danger that is approaching the Rigellians, and then Asgard.
He departs for Rigel-3 upon the Asgardian starjammer, and finds the planet abandoned, save for a race of mutant Rigellians, whom they are attacked by. The two sides stop fighting when they discover their common cause and they leave to catch up with the Rigellians. He meets with the Grand Commissioner, who informs him of the desperate state they are in, and reveals the power of the Black Stars.
He approaches, under the Grand Commissioner's command, the Black Stars, and encounters a being named Avalon. Avalon battles them, but deems them powerful and courageous, and soon welcomes them inside. Avalon reveals he and his race are slaves, but that they can now attempt to fight back. A being called the Protector is sent to fight Avalon and Thor, but Thor destroys it. A cloud disperses to reveal another race and Kragonn, the Dark Lord of the Outer Realm.
He attempts to harm Kragonn, but he and the Rhunians are veritable giants to them and take little notice. They defend themselves from more of the Protectors. They bide their time until Kragonn listens to them and realises the Rhunians don't need to gather energy and cosmic debris, for the rest of the Black Stars are dead planets. Thor and his band leave and the Rhunians stop destroying solar systems.
He bids farewell to the Rigellians and Silas Grant and returns to Asgard, where the Gods catch him up on the vanishing of Krista. Odin reveals that she is a captive of Pluto, and what seems to be Hercules. Thor travels alone to Olympus and accosts everyone until Hercules faces him. They battle, until Zeus demands the reason behind the fight. Hercules states his innocence and they team up to take down Pluto.
He leaves the company of the Olympians with Hercules in search of Pluto. They are ambushed by an army of trolls, though they are able to defeat them. He and Hercules visit Chaga, a witch, who reveals Ares is the one who impersonated Hercules. They approach the gates of Hell but find Ares waiting for them. Thor battles the empowered Ares and is victorious.
He ventures into Hell and is attacked by demonic bats. He aids Hercules, for the Olympian's power is dwindled when in Hell. They battle to Pluto's residence, but he has gone, and taken Krista with him. They return to Asgard and Odin helps them locate Pluto after first being dubious about Hercules' innocence. Thor goes to New York with Hercules and fights Pluto alone after Hercules is incapacitated. He wins, and Pluto vanishes, but Krista is dying and they don't have enough time to return to Asgard.
He changes to Don Blake and performs life-saving surgery on Krista. Afterwards, he spies beams of light only comparable to that of the Destroyer in the city. He changes back into Thor and finds Hercules battling the Destroyer. Thor temporarily incapacitates the Destroyer under water and sends Hercules to find the man that re-activated the Destroyer. Thor continues the fight, but the Destroyer wrenches Mjolnir from him, and is able to wield it.
He summons Mjolnir away from the Destroyer's grasp and holds out until Hercules returns with Professor Clement Holmes. Holmes' assistant frees the soul from the Destroyer and leaves with Holmes. Thor and Hercules return to the hospital wherein Krista rests, but a Herald of Galactus - Firelord - interrupts their visit. Thor is stuck as Don Blake as he drops his cane through a window, and he worries over his conflicted identities. He becomes Thor once more, but Firelord sends a signal, bringing Galactus back to Earth.
Firelord departs before he can challenge him further. Word soon gets out about Galactus' impending return and Thor and Hercules can only wait for him to arrive. When he does, he meets them on the street and enlists their help rather than threatening them or Earth. They are told of Ego the Living Planet's madness - brought on by the separation of Ego Prime from the planet - and Galactus' rebutted efforts to harness Ego's energy. As they approach the Living Planet, Ego starts to attack them, and a war begins between the four of them and Ego.
He arrives on Ego's surface with his dubious companions, and is immediately set upon by Ego's creatures. He leaves Galactus and sets out to find Ego's mind. On the way, they battle Ego's personification and discover a cave leading beneath the surface. They travel down to find Ego's mind. Thor attacks it with Mjolnir while the others defend him.
He unleashes the energies of Ego's mind and is subsequently drawn into one of Ego's memories, revealing his origin as a man and the disaster that made him the Living Planet. He emerges from Ego's mind just as earthquakes begin to occur, and he reaches Galactus' ship with Firelord and Hercules. Galactus attaches a propulsion engine to the surface of Ego and sends the planet moving away from the galaxy. Thor then helps to find a replacement herald for Galactus when Firelord pleads to be set free. He retrieves the unoccupied Destroyer from Earth and gives it to Galactus to empower and use as a herald.
He reads about the upcoming fight between Thundra and the Thing in a newspaper.
Thor returns from Asgard to find a man on a strange vehicle attacking police. The two engage in battle until Thor learns that Justice Peace is there to stop a body switching creature known as Zaniac. He attempts to help Justice Peace, but they arrive to late at the prison where Zaniac was, finding only the husk of the body he previously possessed.
During a vacation in Norway, lame Doctor Don Blake finds a cane and discovers that it can transform him into Thor, the legendary Norse God of Thunder. The cane has also transformed into a hammer and Thor experiments its mystic powers and properties. Armed with this new weapon, he fights off the Stone Men of Saturn who came to invade the Earth.
Thor uses his hammer to travel to the 23rd century to go after the Tomorrow Man who stole a cobalt bomb.
Loki pays a visit to Dr. Blake's office, thus informing Thor that he is wise of his secret identity. The Thunder God outsmarts Loki and takes him back to Asgard again.
Dr. Blake wants to tell his love to Jane and reveal who he is, but Odin immediately forbids him to reveal his identity to any mortal. Thor defeats a race of alien shape-shifters called the Xartans.
Dr. Blake and Jane cross path with a carnival mind-reader named Sandu who hints that the doctor is in love with his nurse, but Don dismisses it as part of an act. Later, Thor attempts to stop Sandu in his plan to rule the world but the villain traps him under a building. Asked for his help, Odin orders the Valkyries to bring him the Belt of Strength, enabling him to escape and defeat the villain.
The Chinese retaliate to Thor nuisance by sending the Radioactive Man. Arriving in New York, the villain challenges to Thor. The battles concludes when Thor generates a tornado that hurls his enemy back to Red China where he blows up in the mountains.
Dr. Blake intercepts a message from the Teen Brigade asking for help to locate the Hulk. After meeting the teenagers, he joins forces with Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp to track down the green menace. Suspecting Loki's involvement, Thor travels to Asgard to confront his foster brother and takes him back to Earth where he confesses that he framed the Hulk to set a trap for Thor. With the capture of the God of Mischief, the four heroes and the Hulk decide to form a team called the Avengers.
Blake intends to reveal his secret and declare his love to Jane, but he is once more denied permission by Odin. Tired of his weakness, Jane leaves to work for Dr. Andrews. A creature called the Lava Man emerges from a volcano announcing that his people will conquer the surface, but Thor sends him back from whence he came.
Loki has escaped from Asgard and comes to Earth to get revenge on Thor. The Thunder God defeats his foster brother and uses his hammer to send him back to Asgard.
Odin agrees with Thor's suggestion that if Jane proves herself worthy of it, he will reconsider make Jane immortal. While Thor is trying to stop Mister Hyde, Jane helps the villain get away, so Odin condemns her as unworthy of immortality, unaware that she did it to protect Donald Blake.
In hopes that someday he will be worthy to hold Odin's hammer, young Thor and Loki confront the Storm Giants to recover the Golden Apples that they stole from Iduna and free Agnar, the King of the Eagles, from the Giants.
Back from the 23rd century, Thor realizes that Odin has restored his powers. Dr. Blake gets a visit from the Enchantress who tries to seduce him in front of Jane who storms out of his office. Going after her, Thor finds the Executioner who has just sent her to Limbo. He agrees to pledge his hammer in exchange for her return. The Executioner brings Jane back but cannot lift the hammer. When the Enchantress arrives, Thor hurls the duo back to Asgard.
Thor is told by the Three Fates that he will have to face death to earn Odin's hammer. When he later learns from Balder that the Storm Giants have captured Sif, Thor seizes Odin's hammer without realizing he can lift it. He subdues the King of the Storm Giants then meets Hela to offer his life to free Sif. Hela is so moved that she lets them both leave.
To achieve a mission given by Odin, Thor travels meets Sindri, King of the Dwarves, who gives him Skipbladnir, a magic ship that he sails to the Land of Mirmir. After vanquishing Skord the Dragon and Gullin the Boar God, he delivers a branch of Yggdrasill, the Tree of Life to Mirmir who touches the waters of the Enchanted Fountain with it. Drops fall on an elder and an ash that Odin planted on Midgard and the trees transform into Aske and Embla, the first human man and woman to populate the Earth.
The Avengers discover the body of the legendary Captain America adrift in the sea and take him aboard their sub. After waking up, Cap tells them what happened during the last minutes of his life twenty years ago. The Avengers are turned into statues in New York Harbor and brought back to normal by an alien captured by Captain America and Rick Jones. They agree to help the D'Bari recover his spaceship at the bottom of the ocean. After they resist an attack from Namor, Captain America accepts to join the Avengers.
Still on the trail of the Hulk, the Avengers find clues of his presence in New Mexico. But their former teammate is now in New York City and has defeated the Fantastic Four. They travel back home where they face the Hulk. Soon, the Fantastic Four have regrouped and join them in the fight, but since they never fought side-by-side, they only get in each other's way. Realizing this, they decide to collaborate and finally manage to defeat the Hulk who disappears into the Hudson River.
In New Mexico, the Avengers are attacked by the Lava Men who have been pushing an ever-growing rock outside of their subterranean domain. Thor learns that trying to make it explode would destroy both their races. When the Hulk suddenly appears and engages battle, the Avengers solve all their problems by tricking him into smashing the rock at a vulnerable spot, causing it to implode. Thor then convinces the Lava Men to peacefully resume their own lives.
Baron Zemo assembles a team composed of the Black Knight, the Melter, the Radioactive Man and himself to battle their respective nemesis in the Avengers. But the heroes defeat the Masters of Evil by switching enemies to destabilize them. The villains are arrested but Baron Zemo manages to escape.
Jane Foster confesses to Thor that she loves Blake, much to his delight. The Grey Gargoyle tries to take his hammer away from Thor and turns him to stone. The hero accidentally falls on his hammer and breaks the spell by changing to mortal form. Dr. Blake tricks the villain who ends up sinking to the bottom of the Hudson River.
The Enchantress uses a potion to turn Thor against the other Avengers and a long battle ensues. Iron Man uses the sunlight reflection on his armor to snap him out of her spell. When Baron Zemo comes back to join the Enchantress and the Executioner, Thor entraps their ship into a space warp.
King Sindri unknowingly sends Thor as a slave to the Rock Trolls so they will not attack his kingdom. The Thunder God convinces the other slaves to fight back for their freedom and defeat the Trolls.
Before he reached the age of 20, Thor is banished from Asgard by Odin as a ruse to lure the Mountain Giants and their Queen Knorda into a trap and to expose the traitor Arkin the Weak.
The Avengers are asked by the Pentagon to deal with the threat of Kang the Conqueror who came from the future to claim Earth for himself. After explaining his origin, Kang is attacked by the Avengers but he easily confines the male members of the team inside his ship. They are freed by the Teen Brigade and the Wasp soon arrives with a weapon with which Giant-Man destroys Kang's suit which controls his weapons. Defeated when Thor uses his hammer to hurl radiation back at him, the Conqueror is forced to flee in his ship.
The Avengers meet Wonder Man for the first time as he helps them fight the Masters of Evil. Then the Avengers discover this is all a set up to lure them to South America where they all get captured by the villains. Ultimately, Wonder Man redeems himself and sacrifices his life when he saves the heroes from Zemo who is about to kill them.
Odin banishes Thor from Asgard for letting his love for Jane get in the way of capturing Mister Hyde and the Cobra who have kidnapped her. But he suspends his punishment when Thor breaks into Asgard to confront Loki who was acting behind the scene to have Jane abducted. When she gets injured by an explosion, Thor creates a time warp around her until he has defeated the two villains and Balder has sent him a cure to save her.
When Immortus captures Rick Jones, each Avenger must confront a legendary figure to free him and Thor beats Hercules. Before all his champions are defeated, Immortus leaves with Captain America. Meanwhile, the Masters of Evil attack the Avengers and gain the upper hand until Cap returns victorious with Rick. The Enchantress casts a spell to bring her team back to the moment before they met Immortus, so for anybody else, it is as if nothing ever happened.
Led by Thor's hammer which has detected evil impulses in the Balkans, the Avengers engage in a fight against the X-Men. Professor X explains that Earth would be in peril if their foe Lucifer was to be slain and convinces them that they will handle the situation.
Gets his left arm severed by a Frost Giant.
Thor is forced to overthrow the local dictator known as the Executioner who is keeping the people of San Diablo under his control by denying them medical assistance.
Thor solves the mystery of scientists who are inexplicably defecting to Soviet Union.
Dr. Blake is forced to treat a wounded criminal, so Thor appears and rounds up Thug Thatcher and his gang.
During the shooting of a movie, Thor loses his hammer. He discovers that it was stolen by Loki who wants to confront his foster brother in Asgard.
A hit to the head provoked by Loki causes Thor to go evil, free his foster brother, and go on a rampage with him around the world. Thor is restored to normal thanks to Odin and Heimdall.
Thor's identity is compromised when Professor Zaxton sees Blake changing into the Thunder God. The Asgardian is confronted by an evil duplicate of himself created by Zaxton. While the real the hero destroys his doppelganger, Zaxton creates a duplicate of himself to confuse him but accidentally falls to his death.
When Merlin the Mad rises from his crypt with plans of world domination, Thor tricks him into going back into it for another thousand years.
After Thor defeats the Cobra, a scientist who got bitten by a radioactive cobra, Jane asks Dr. Blake if she can come back to work for him because she has realized that Dr. Andrews is a coward.
The Avengers meet an alien invader called the Space Phantom who uses his ability to borrow the body of any mortal to put the Avengers against each other, paving the way for his people to invade the Earth. The threat is over when the alien trying to take the immortal Thor's body and ends up in limbo himself. The Hulk announces to them that he is leaving the team.
Odin cuts Thor's power in half to punish him for keeping feelings Jane and even revokes his right to visit Asgard. The Thunder God is then forced to follow the Tomorrow Man to the 23rd century as his slave. Once he has completed his promise, the Avenger is free to defeat the villain and deliver him to his people.
When Odin visits him, Thor informs his father that in his absence from Asgard, Loki has released Skagg and Surtur from their prisons. They join forces with Balder against the two enemies who are defeated after a battle of titans.
During their teenage, Loki sends Thor alone against a force of powerful enemies in hopes that he would be destroyed. But the young god holds his own until Odin's army repels the intruders.
Rick Jones informs the Avengers that he found the Hulk back in New Mexico. They confront him in the desert to reason with him but it turns in to a fight and the Hulk chooses to escape. Days after, he has found an ally in the Sub-Mariner and they challenge the Avengers to battle them at Gibraltar. When the Hulk apparently deserts in the middle of the fight, Namor plays it safe and swims away.
Thor captures the Cobra and Mister Hyde who have teamed up against him.
Odin orders Thor to execute Balder who is condemned to the test of Mortal Death, but at the last minute, he stops his reluctant son from throwing his hammer at the brave Asgardian because he did not flinch at the test.
Flying back from a mission for the Avengers, Thor's hammer suddenly vanishes from his hand only to reappear before he falls to his death. He follows the source of the enchantment until it disappears as well, never to know that Loki had tricked Doctor Strange into stealing his weapon.
Thor finds Doctor Strange unconscious at his home and has him taken to an operating room where Dr. Blake saves his life. Grateful, Strange repays the favor when Blake asks him to locate his cane which was taken away by Loki. Thor also asks him to protect Jane Foster while he defeats his brother.
Thor finds Magneto who has been causing magnetic disturbances in New-York and battles him in his camouflaged submersible fort. The battle ends when the X-Men find the fort and Magneto if forced to flee while Thor destroys the vessel.
Thor and his fellows Avengers go to a charity event outside New York.
As the Avengers are about to investigate the sinking of entire city blocks into the ground, the Fantastic Four inform them that this is the Mole Man's doing so they prefer to handle the situation themselves.
During a fierce battle against Rivvak, Odin, Thor and their army are forced to retreat by fiery geysers erupting in the plain.
In the Forbidden Forest, Thor, Balder and Loki are challenged by Sigurd. The warrior seems to grow stronger and rivals even Thor's power until Balder remembers the Earth Sprites increase their son Sigurd's strength each time his body strikes the ground. Thor gets rid of the enemy by hurling him into space.
Contacted by Iron Man who requested permission to skip an Avengers meeting, Thor expresses his concern about his loyalty to Tony Stark who has gone missing.
Thor sees children arguing on who is the strongest between Thor and the Hulk so he tells them of the fight they had when the Avengers had to face their former partner. Odin had granted his son the chance to remain Thor with his hammer for five minutes instead of only one so he can measure up his strength against the Hulk. As the battle had ended with no real conclusion, Thor tells the kids that valor is more important than brute force.
The Avengers vote a leave of absence for Iron Man who has been missing after the announcement of Tony Stark's death. Spider-Man offers to join the team, announcing that their armored comrade has been taken to Mexico by the Masters of Evil, but at the Temple of Tirod, the Avengers are ambushed by the webcrawler. As they free themselves, they understand that they were actually saved by the real Spider-Man who has disabled the robot replica of himself sent by Kang.
After a victory against the Demon Men of Jotunheim, Odin asks his son to return to Asgard to assume his princely duties but Thor refuses. Dr. Blake finally tells Jane that he is Thor. Since she does not believe him, he tries to prove it but he discovers that he can no longer change into his immortal form. They are suddenly attacked by the Grey Gargoyle. Running away with Jane, Dr. Blake gets help from Honir who secretly restores his powers for thirty seconds, enabling Thor to defeat the villain. Feeling later that his powers have finally been given back to him, Dr. Blake decides not to renounce his immortal heritage.
During a combat tournament, Loki cheats to get his favorite the advantage. When the attendees want to punish the culprit, Thor insists to share the punishment, thus earning the respect of all warriors.
Thor transports T'Challa and himself to Arkon's dimension where they fight to free the Black Knight and the other Avengers, defeating Enchantress and Arkon.
He attends a charity event for children after coming back from Arkon's dimension.
After mocking Giant-Man who brought them a warning sent by his ants, worldwide tremors make the Avengers realize their mistake. After a failed attack from the Mole Man's minions, they dig their way to the villain's lair where they find that he has associated himself with the Red Ghost. Thor destroys the Mole Man's equipment and the team seals off the villains' access tunnels to the surface world.
The Avengers are attending a fake charity event at Count Nefaria's castle where they are put in stasis. As they leave, the confused Avengers are attacked by the US Armed Forces and have to retreat to their HQ where they learn that they supposedly threatened to take over the government. Suspecting that Nefaria is behind this, they go back to his castle where they free the Teen Brigade, defeat the Count and force a confession that clears their names, but the Wasp has been hit by a stray bullet in the fight.
At the hospital, the Avengers learn that the Wasp is in critical condition and only one specialist may save her. Thor brings the doctor from Norway but he turns out to be an imposter. The real Dr. Svenson had agreed to help an alien race and the Avengers find themselves caught in the middle of an interplanetary war. When the Yirbek locate their foe on Earth, the Avengers force the Kallusians to send them back to the hospital with the doctor and to take their conflict elsewhere. Svenson's operation on Janet is successful.
Thor listens as T'Challa tells of his origin.
Thor is called by the UN to protect an experimental weather control station with Goliath and Iron Man from a seeming attack by the Hulk, whom Thor has to fight, and his allies.
During a battle against the Storm Giants, Thor accidentally finds himself in the outskirts of Olympus. He gets into a battle with Hercules over the right to cross a bridge first. Both are more than a match for each other until Zeus stops the fight and orders them to make friends.
When Rick Jones is pulled into an aircraft by an attractor beam, the Avengers follow after it and are attacked by the Masters of Evil. To avoid injuring citizens, Thor uses his hammer to teleport his teammates and the mortal villains in a neutral place where they easily capture them. Then he tells the Wasp he has to leave for the Trial of the Gods.
Dr. Blake learns from patient, the reporter Harris Hobbs, that a superpowered convict has broken out of jail. Thor finds the Absorbing Man in Black Mountain Swamp and engages in a fight. When Hobbs arrives, Thor sends him to warn the authorities about this threat. His fight is interrupted by Balder who teleports him to Asgard and informs him that Loki has captured Jane Foster. Thor battles Loki but when Odin intervenes, his step-brother accuses him to have brought a mortal to Asgard. The All-Father decides to submit them both to the Trial of the Gods but allows Thor to leave for 48 hours to take Jane back to Earth and finish his battle against the Absorbing Man. He finds Hobbs and the police at a suburban house. After the reporter has lured the villain out of the cottage, Thor defeats him by making him absorb the properties of helium which sends him adrift into the atmosphere. After thanking Hobbs for his courage, he leaves for Asgard to face the Trial of the Gods.
For the Trial of the Gods, Odin sends Thor and Loki to Skornheim where they are to survive without any weapons. The first to come back shall be declared victorious. To distract his opponent, Loki informs Thor that he has sent the Executioner and the Enchantress on a visit to Jane Foster. With his strength only, Thor manages to get past all of Skornheim's traps, including Yagg the Slayer, but Loki cheats his way to victory thanks to the enchanted Norn Stones he illegally brought with him. Thor is granted 24 hours by Odin to find proof of Loki's deceit. Thor first flies to check on Jane, who has been protected by Balder, and forces the evil Asgardians to escape. Guided by his hammer, Thor flies to Asia where he is stunned by a Viet Cong mortar shell and tended by a Vietnamese family. After finding the Norn Stones and helping the village against the Red tyrants, Thor safely takes Kim, the only survivor of the family welcomed him, to the care of the US Air Force. Then in the jungle, a greedy hunter shoots a sleeping-gas shell at Thor who falls unconscious. Waking up, Thor faces the Destroyer who has been activated by the hunter. During the battle, his incredible foe is able to slice his hammer in two with a bolt of force and traps in inside a diamond-hard floor. When the Destroyer is about to strike a deadly blow, Thor's body mysteriously turns unsolid long enough to help him escape the trap. Then he finds the hunter's body and shields himself with it, which forces the hunter to return to it. After destroying the temple, Thor uses a Norn Stone to levitate and journey back to Asgard.
After repairing his hammer at a Pittsburg forge, Thor inspects the Norn Stones and unknowingly drops one in a jungle. In Asgard, he proves to his father that Loki has indeed cheated in the Trial of the Gods. Thor later returns to Earth and as Dr. Blake, he finds his office completely abandoned and that Jane Foster has gone missing. Going to the Avengers headquarters, he learns that the old Avengers have been replaced by arrogant youngsters. Then he is attacked by the Absorbing Man who has been brought back from orbit, stronger than ever. During the fight, the Absorbing Man suddenly vanishes, transported to Asgard by Ularic's Attractor Beam. A gas explosion catches his attention, and when he finds Jane unconscious. As he turns into Dr. Blake to examine her, Harris Hobbs takes a picture of him. Amazed at Hobbs' resolve, Thor agrees to take him to Asgard if he destroys the evidence of his secret identity. In Asgard, they find that the kingdom has been attacked by Loki and the Absorbing Man. Despite Thor's help, Odin is forced to yield his kingdom and scepter to Loki. Yet while the two villains fight over the possession of the scepter, Odin sends them both adrift into the vastness of space. Then Thor takes Hobbs back to Earth and grants him the Gift of Forgetfulness.
Accompanied by Loki and a group of warriors, Thor battles the Storm Giant Ghan, but their foe mysteriously vanishes.
King Hymir challenges Thor to shatter an enchanted goblet within two minutes or he will become the king's slave. Thor succeeds by throwing the goblet at the king's crown.
On his way to Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding day at Baxter Building, Thor intercepts the Super-Skrull who intended to attack the Fantastic Four and both engage in a fight. While the battle rages on, Reed Richards uses a machine that transports all their enemies back to the recent past with no memory of what occurred. Finally, Reed and Sue are wed in front of all their family and friends.
