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  1. Nov 15, 2022 · Simonson took a middling Marvel character and made him a huge industry hit. It is unlikely we would have seen him in the Marvel movies if Simonson hadn’t helmed his popular and imfluential run on the book. Almost 40 years later, the repercussions of Walter Simonson’s Thor are still being felt.

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    • What if Walter Simonson had not helmed Thor?1
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  2. Early on, Simonson wisely ditches what had been a plot device and convention of Thor since the very beginning: his mortal identity of Dr. Don Blake, whom he reverts to if separated from Mjolnir for sixty seconds.

  3. Jan 31, 2013 · Simonson introduced a very real mortality to Thor, in which he increasingly could not shake off his injuries and needed to relay more on his wits, while facing ever more powerful foes. Partway through his run as writer and artist on the title, he handed off the artistic duties to Sal Buscema.

  4. I had a tough time narrowing it down, but here would my picks for the most essential issues: Thor #337-340 - The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill. Introduction of Beta Ray Bill. Thor #344-355 - Ragnarok and Roll.

  5. Jul 19, 2011 · A more befitting bit of Thor monumentalism was the thousand-plus page collection of Walter Simonson's run on the character: a real cinder block of a book, retouched to the artist's standards, that virtually dares you to question the “definitive” label so often applied to Simonson's Thor.

  6. Feb 1, 2016 · Walter Simonson was new to Marvel Comics when he came over in the early 1980s, picking up Thor with #337 and ending at Thor #382, with most of that run being with him serving as both writer and artist.

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  8. I had the pleasure of interviewing Simonson about his work on Thor -- his enjoyment in having free rein to (re)introduce mythic elements to Marvel's Norse pantheon, which he had enjoyed reading in books of Norse myths as a kid, was clear, even many years after he had stopped working on the title.

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