Thor #1

Sep 2007 · Marvel

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About this Issue

Thor (2007) #1 marks the thunder god's return to ongoing publication after nearly three years of absence following the 'Avengers Disassembled' Ragnarök storyline, making it one of the most consequential character comebacks in Marvel's post-2000 publishing history. The issue launches the bold creative conceit of transplanting Asgard — physically — to a floating city above rural Broxton, Oklahoma, grounding Norse mythology in recognizably human American geography and generating a sustained culture-clash dynamic that ran through the entire J. Michael Straczynski era. By directly engaging with the fallout of Marvel's 'Civil War' event — including Thor's fury over Tony Stark's use of his DNA to build a clone — the series used the God of Thunder as a moral counterweight to the post-Civil War Marvel status quo, giving the character fresh ethical weight rather than simply restoring the previous one. The run also served as a narrative foundation for the 2010 'Siege' event and, according to reader accounts, meaningfully informed the tone and mythology of Marvel Studios' 2011 Thor film.

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History

The character had been off the board since the conclusion of Thor vol. 2 #85 (December 2004), in which writer Michael Avon Oeming and artist Andrea Di Vito staged a definitive Ragnarök that destroyed Asgard and seemingly ended the Asgardians' existence. Marvel editor Warren Simons brought in J. Michael Straczynski — fresh off a celebrated long-form run on Amazing Spider-Man — to engineer the revival, pairing him with Olivier Coipel, who had drawn House of M, and inker Mark Morales, with colors by Laura Martin. A narrative prologue was quietly seeded in Fantastic Four #536–537 (written by Straczynski), where Mjolnir is recovered and Donald Blake reappears, so that by the time Thor #1 shipped on July 5, 2007 (with a September 2007 cover date), the resurrection mechanism was already in motion across two titles. Straczynski ultimately departed the series before completing his intended arc when the editorially-driven 'Siege' event required a story direction he did not wish to follow, at which point Kieron Gillen took over with issue #604.

Trivia · 8 facts

Written by J. Michael Straczynski with pencils by Olivier Coipel, inks by Mark Morales, colors by Laura Martin, and letters by Chris Eliopoulos; edited under Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and editor Warren Simons.
Cover-dated September 2007; released on newsstands July 5, 2007 — the character's first ongoing series issue after roughly three years of publication absence following Thor vol. 2 #85 (December 2004).
Debuts the 'Asgard over Broxton, Oklahoma' status quo: after reclaiming Mjolnir with the help of a restored Donald Blake, Thor resurrects himself and erects a floating Asgard just outside the small Oklahoma town, setting the defining backdrop for the entire JMS era.
First appearance of Beth (Beth Sooner) in issue #1, a Broxton local who becomes a recurring human anchor character for the Asgardian storylines throughout the run.
The issue is the third volume (vol. 3) of Thor as an ongoing series; beginning with what would have been vol. 3 #13 (January 2009), Marvel reverted the numbering to #600 to reflect the cumulative total of published issues across all three volumes.
Multiple variant covers were produced for the issue: a standard Olivier Coipel cover, a Michael Turner variant, an Arthur Suydam 'zombie' painted variant, a black-and-white Coipel sketch variant, and a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Coipel sketch cover.
The JMS run (issues #1–12 and #600–603) was collected in trade paperback as two volumes and later in a hardcover omnibus (ISBN 978-0-7851-4956-9) that also reprints the two Fantastic Four prologue issues (#536–537), as well as a Giant-Size Finale.
Olivier Coipel's cover for issue #1 is noted by the GCD as an homage to the Jack Kirby splash page from Journey into Mystery #83 (August 1962), Thor's original debut issue.