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7 59606 09628 2 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! ODINSON IS THE GOD OF THUNDER AND PROTECTOR OF MIDGARD. ALONG WITH ALL THE POWERS OF THE STORM, HE WIELDS MJOLNIR, A MIGHTY HAMMER FORGED OF URU THAT ONLY HE CAN LIFT — OR SO HE BELIEVED FOR MANY YEARS. OVER TIME, HE HAS WITNESSED OTHERS WHO CAN LIFT THE HAMMER. OTHERS WHO ARE…WORTHY.

ON A QUEST TO PROTECT HIS PEOPLE, THE KORBINITE RACE, BETA RAY BILL ONCE GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH THOR DUE TO A MISUNDERSTANDING, AND DURING THE BATTLE HE PICKED UP MJOLNIR AND WAS GRANTED THE POWER OF THOR. SO IMPRESSED WITH THE KORBINITE’S WORTHINESS WAS THOR’S FATHER, ODIN, THAT HE FORGED A NEW ENCHANTED HAMMER FOR BILL CALLED STORMBREAKER. BILL HAS BEEN AN ALLY OF ASGARD EVER SINCE, AS WELL AS AN OCCASIONAL ROMANTIC PARTNER OF THE LADY SIF. WRITER PENCILER COLORIST LETTERER WALTER MIKE SAL TAMRA JOHN SIMONSON HAWTHORNE BUSCEMA BONVILLAIN WORKMAN

ERIC MASTERSON WAS A MORTAL ALLY OF THOR WHO PROVED HIMSELF WORTHY OF AN ENCHANTED WEAPON OF HIS OWN AND BECAME THE HERO KNOWN AS THUNDERSTRIKE. HE WOULD EVENTUALLY DIE IN BATTLE, AND HIS SON KEVIN NOW CARRIES ON THE THUNDERSTRIKE LEGACY, BUT WHILE HE LIVED ERIC FOUGHT DAILY TO PROTECT MIDGARD AND REMAIN WORTHY. SCRIPT, PLOT & PENCILS INKER COLORIST LETTERER TOM DeFALCO & RON FRENZ KEITH WILLIAMS RACHELLE ROSENBERG VC’S CLAYTON COWLES

WHEN THOR BRIEFLY FOUND HIMSELF UNWORTHY TO LIFT MJOLNIR AND JANE FOSTER BECAME THE NEW THOR, INITIALLY NO ONE KNEW WHO THIS NEW GODDESS OF THUNDER WAS, NOT EVEN THOR HIMSELF. FOR A TIME, HE SUSPECTED IT MIGHT BE THE LADY SIF, AND ONE NIGHT HE CONFRONTED HER DIRECTLY WITH HIS THEORY… WRITER ARTIST COLORIST LETTERER KATHRYN IMMONEN TOM REILLY CHRIS O’HALLORAN VC’S CLAYTON COWLES

COVER ARTISTS VARIANT COVER ARTISTS KIM JACINTO & JAVA TARTAGLIA WALTER SIMONSON & PAUL MOUNTS

THOR CREATED BY & JACK KIRBY

ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE EDITOR CHIEF CREATIVE EXECUTIVE EDITOR EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF OFFICER PRESIDENT PRODUCER SARAH WIL TOM C.B. JOE DAN ALAN BRUNSTAD MOSS BREVOORT CEBULSKI QUESADA BUCKLEY FINE

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