Mighty Thor #22
Mighty Thor #22 (August 2017) marks the first full appearance of Sindr, the Queen of Cinders — daughter of Surtur and heir to the throne of Muspelheim — making it a meaningful character-introduction issue within one of Marvel's most ambitious long-form cosmic narratives of the 2010s. The issue plants the seeds for Malekith's Dark Council and the escalating multi-realm conflict that Jason Aaron had been threading across years of Thor storytelling, all of which culminated in the 2019 War of the Realms event. Structurally, the issue is also notable for juggling two simultaneous Thors — Jane Foster's Mighty Thor and Volstagg's fury-driven War Thor — in a single story without losing dramatic coherence, a storytelling feat that reviewers at the time noted was uniquely difficult to sustain. Marvel itself later selected this issue for inclusion in the official War of the Realms Prelude trade paperback, signaling its editorial weight as a foundational chapter in that macro-story.
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The issue was written by Jason Aaron, with interior pencils and inks split between series regular Russell Dauterman (credited on page 1) and Valerio Schiti (pages 2–20), with colors by Matthew Wilson, Veronica Gandini, and Rain Beredo, and letters by Joe Sabino. It was edited by Wil Moss, Sarah Brunstad, and Tom Brevoort under Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, and went on sale August 16, 2017 with an October 2017 cover date. The issue follows directly from Mighty Thor #21, in which Surtur was assassinated by Thor Odinson — an event Sindr explicitly references upon her debut, anchoring her character's motivation in the immediate continuity Aaron had just established.
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- First full appearance of Sindr, the Queen of Cinders — daughter of Surtur and new ruler of Muspelheim — a character who would go on to serve as a major antagonist in War of the Realms (2019) and subsequent Thor titles.
- First appearance of Smoketongue and Smoketongue's mother, two minor Fire Goblin characters native to Muspelheim.
- Written by Jason Aaron; interior art split between Russell Dauterman (page 1) and Valerio Schiti (pages 2–20); colored by Matthew Wilson, Veronica Gandini, and Rain Beredo; lettered by Joe Sabino.
- Cover art by Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson; variant cover by Joyce Chin (Marvel vs. Capcom variant).
- Published on sale August 16, 2017, with an October 2017 cover date; rated T+ (Ages 13 and up); edited under Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso.
- The story pits both active Thors — Jane Foster's Mighty Thor and Volstagg's War Thor (wielding the Ultimate Universe Mjolnir) — against Sindr and the assembled Dark Council, picking up immediately after Surtur's assassination in issue #21.
- Sindr's backstory, revealed in this issue, establishes her as the only one of Surtur's children to choose a cauldron of flames over food in a ritual test, making her the first in a thousand of his offspring to do so and earning her the Burning Throne.
- Reprinted as part of the War of the Realms Prelude trade paperback (Marvel, 2018), which Marvel assembled as an official fast-track reading guide to the 2019 event.
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↩ Reprints Mighty Thor #23 (2017)
Reprinted in Mighty Thor #4 (2017), Mighty Thor #19 (2017), Mighty Thor #21 (2017), The Mighty Thor #4 (2018), War of the Realms Prelude #[nn] (2019), Thor by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman #3 (2019), Thor by Jason Aaron: The Complete Collection #4 (2021), Thor by Jason Aaron Omnibus #2 (2023)
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