Funnily enough I heard of Thor (the comic book character) for the first time just yesterday on this Youtube clipof Conan.
Jesus, dropzone, what the hell is your problem? You’re shooting the mesenger, big time, for no reason. The OP asked a valid question that I’ve wondered about myself. You know, if you really don’t give a shit, you can show it by not posting.
Thor has been in popular, mainstream comics every month for the last 50ish years, roughly. He has had tv appearances, and the Hulk tv movie appearance as noted, and he’s getting his own major film.
He’s currently being written by a very popular writer.
He’s very well-known to anyone who has ever had any interest in comic books. Outside of that, I really don’t know, but he could become very popular, like Iron Man, if his movie is good.
DC’s thor also appeared in John Byrne’s run on New Gods in the 80s, and in Jack Kirby’s version of Sandman in the 40s. He was in one issue of each and was not a major character.
I don’t think that more than 2% of the US population could tell you that Thor is Dr. Donald Blake.
Know him? The punk owes me 20$
DC Thor also dragged Superman and Wonder Woman off to Asgard for two thousand subjective years of war. It was a moderately important plot point that Clark was recently married to Lois, so although he and Diana were occasionally tempted to do the nasty, they never did. At the end of the war they returned to the moment they’d left.
blink Thor’s mortal avatar is Otto?
Just to be clear, Vertigo is not a title, but a line of comics published by DC, united only in being mature readers books.
For Thor, you need to check out Sandman. I think he only appears in Season of Mists, though, as mentioned, Loki, whose first Sandman appearance is in SoM is important later.
Some Vertigo books tie into the main DCU in various ways - Sandman and its related series and are considered to take place in a far flung corner of the DCU, occasionally moving closer…others were never particularly detached - Doom Patrol, for instance, while not crossing over with other books when it moved to Vertigo, was still grounded in the DCU by the characters, and was important to the creation of the team in the next series when it returned to the DC imprint. There’s currently claims of an inviolable wall between Vertigo and DC, but actual books in both lines have put the lie to that - Madam Xanadu, particularly, currently uses the Homo Magi (the people from whom the Zataras are descended) as a major plot point, has featured the Green Lantern, the Demon, the Spectre, Zatara, etc…
Then there are books completely unrelated to the DCU, or other Vertigo books, which are the bulk of them.
Actually, Thor is a Lee/Kirby retelling of Captain Marvel, according to their own lights.
… and the scales fell from his eyes, and Dr Fidelius saw a character with greater clarity than ever before…
Of Course he’s a Captain Marvel swipe! Weakling, powers of a god, magic walking stick instead of magic word.
Damn. Why didn’t I ever see that before.
(Maturally, this makes no difference in The Real World, but it adds to my geek factor.)
And the lightning. Don’t forget the lightning.
I don’t *collect *comics, but I do read them, and I know him, although I greatly prefer the much more realistically-Scandiwegian-looking eco-warrior version from The Ultimates.
If true, I’m glad they didn’t take it any further. I would have hated to see a Thor family consisting of Thor Jr., Thelma Thor, etc.
And if it had carried over to the bad-guys, we might have had the Absorbing Man & Absorbine Jr.!
If you actually said “No one outside the comics community knows he’s a character”, maybe people wouldn’t report you, but if these posts are typical of your behavior in these thread, then you’re being a jerk, and threadshitting.
And reported.
For what it’s worth, I’ve never been much of a comics reader, and get most of my knowledge through its adaptations, wikipedia articles, and threads like this. I also don’t really care about the Avengers or Thor, and my favorite characters are all second to third tier X-Men characters that are even less known than the God of Thunder. I don’t give a damn about their popularity except in so far as they’re popular enough for writers to keep using them.
As to the OP: I agree with Cisco. Anyone who’s been into comics should be aware of him as he’s one of the core members of the Avengers, Marvel’s elite team of superheroes.
In the world at large, though, I doubt many really know him at all.
This is borderline threadshitting, and this
is way over the line. If these threads annoy you so much, dropzone, you should probably avoid them. “He’s not well known” is an acceptable answer. “He’s not well known, and god, you guys are so stupid for asking” is threadshitting. This is not the first time this has been explained to you and this is a warning not to do it again.
I do have a totally inappropriate bug up my ass about comic book fans and have asked to have my account suspended for a while. I apologize for my threadshitting.
Hey, drop, I can empathize. Comic book fans tend to annoy me and I’m one of 'em.
A long time ago I read some Thor and I liked it but I can’t remember who his alter ego is? IIRC he is a doctor and he has a cane, which he strikes to the ground to become Thor.
Dr. Donald Blake.
I’m guessing Marvel’s Thor is roughly as well-known as Iron Man was before his movie. Maybe slightly less since Thor didn’t have a 90’s cartoon.
I’ve heard before that there is a comic character called Thor, but I don’t think this has come up often.
I don’t believe I’d ever seen a picture of the Marvel comics Thor before I looked at the links in the OP. Between the helmet and hammer I could have identified him as being based on the Norse god Thor, but I don’t have any idea whether this character is actually the mythical Thor or a superhero named after Thor, what his powers are, or the basics of his origin story.
I gather from this thread that there’s going to be a Thor movie, but this is the first I’ve heard of it.