Thor Annual #3

In "A World Gone Mad!", Thor's declaration of love for Jane Foster ignites tension with Odin, setting off a chain of events that unravels Don Blake’s fragile secret. When Blake tries to prove his identity to Jane, the enchantment that grants him godhood has been stripped away—leaving him powerless as the Grey Gargoyle attacks. With help from the mysterious Honir the Hunter, Blake must summon Thor’s might for just thirty seconds to save Jane, only to retreat into denial when the madness passes.

In a tale of cunning and fate, Loki manipulates the Norn Queen to reveal Balder’s fatal weakness—mistletoe—then hurls a dart of the plant in a bid to end the beloved god’s life. But as the arrow flies, the Norn Queen intervenes, her power halting the strike and setting a fateful course.

Thor finds himself captured and sold into slavery by the king of the dwarfs, who has disguised him as a common laborer. Trapped in a troll mine, the god of thunder must outwit his captors and free the enslaved dwarfs before the trolls' dark workings claim more lives.

In "The Stronger I Am, the Sooner I Die!", Thor faces a terrifying new foe when Loki transforms Crusher Creel into the Absorbing Man, a being whose power grows with every blow. When reporter Harris Hobbs, a patient of Don Blake’s, warns him of the creature’s rampage, Thor must abandon a dinner with Jane Foster to confront the threat. As the battle escalates, Thor is forced to tend to Hobbs after he’s injured, then abruptly whisked away to Asgard by Balder—only to learn Loki has kidnapped Jane and taken her to the Golden Realm. With the Absorbing Man believing himself victorious, Thor and Balder prepare to race to her rescue.