As writers are wont to do, however, much creative license was taken, to the point where there is a great deal of departure from the original Norse myths that Marvel's Thor is based on. However, as time went on, more and more of Thor's Norse roots were added, and it was eventually established that he was indeed the true God of Thunder (with Blake being nothing more than a false identity). Donald Blake) who was merely gifted with the power of Thor, much like another publisher's hero, Billy Batson, AKA Captain Marvel, was gifted with the power of the gods by the wizard Shazam. The original conception of Marvel's Thor was that of an ordinary man ( Dr. And who else was fit to join Marvel's fledgling pantheon of heroes but the most famous Norse god of them all Thor, God of Thunder! Joined by artist Jack Kirby, and Stan's brother Larry Lieber who scripted the early issues, Marvel Comics' Thor was born. Instead, he turned to the more ethereal realm of mythology, but rather than relying on the well-worn gods of the Greek pantheon, he looked to the land of the ice and snow…Scandinavia, from whence Norse mythology sprang. In 1962, as Stan Lee continued dreaming up the ideas that would eventually comprise the core of Marvel's pantheon, he began to look beyond the science-fiction background that produced the space explorers of the Fantastic Four, the Jekyll & Hyde monster known as the Hulk, and the incredible shrinking Dr.
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