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Brad
Cover Date: March 1963
Plot Overview: The Xartans depart to conquer Earth as the issue opens. Meanwhile, Dr. Don Blake struggles over revealing himself to Jane Foster. As he's about to finally reveal himself as Thor, Odin shows up and tells him not to. Blake heads out into the city and finds that people are acting more and more crazy as he walks about. He returns to the office and Jane is also acting crazy. Blake leaves and becomes Thor. He visits the mayor to realize that, he too, is acting different.
Thor thinks back to his younger days and the teachings of Odin. Odin tells him that the simplest answer however impossible is probably the right answer since nothing is impossible. Thor decides that the people must be imposters if they aren't acting themselves.
Thor finds a spaceship but the ship traps him and he drops the hammer. Thor becomes Blake again and he's captured by the aliens. They take him into the ship and the mayor and Jane are inside. Blake agrees to take the aliens to attack Thor if they let him go. The mayor and Jane are outraged as Blake leaves the ship with the aliens. Blake sends the aliens into the brush so he can grab the hammer and once again become Thor.
Thor bests the son of the head Xartan in one on one battle and then easily defeats the head alien. The other Xartans surrender and Thor makes them turn into trees. Thor reveals that the Xartan people take on all the qualities of what they turn into. As trees, they can no longer think and turn themselves back. Thor tells the mayor and Jane to go easy on Blake, he was only helping him get the drop on the aliens. Jane and the mayor are confused by the explanation but ultimately accept it.
My Take: I hated this issue. Lee didn't write it and the artist was new. So the art was bad and the script was really weak. The story was just absolutely ridiculous. I really don't know what to say about this issue. I really didn't like it.
Thor is kind of lagging behind some of the other books. You have the Thor/Blake/Foster love triangle and really nothing else. Being in love with Foster is really the only personality he has as a character.
This title in general is really up and down. When they do Asgard stuff, it's really interesting and stand apart from the other titles out there. When he's more Earth bound, he comes across like a Marvel imitation of Superman. Hopefully they start focusing more on Asgard soon.
I'd give this 1/4* out of *****.
Notes: This is a rare early Marvel story that Lee didn't write. He's credited with the plot but a different writer is credited with the script.
Next Issue: Strange Tales #106
Posted in: Jane Foster,Journey Into Mystery,Thor
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