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#0056 • PUNISHER 2099 | COSTUMES | SPACE KNIGHT • #0058 | ![]() |
HERALD OF THUNDER | ||||
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RARITY | EPIC | ID NO. | 1039500 |
TYPE | Permanent | HERO | Thor | |
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Thor (2020) #1 | ||||
DESCRIPTION | ||||
"...There is Thor. The God-King of Asgard and thunder. The burning Herald of Galactus. And to all of this, the Herald King says... Nay." | ||||
RELEASE DATE | ||||
December 06, 2024 | ||||
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THOR | CATALOG GUIDE | IN ORDER OF RELEASE | |||
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#0001 • MIDGARD UMBER | THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER • #0003 | ![]() |
Origins
Thor (2020) #1
THOR ODINSON (Earth-616)
Writer: Donny Cates | Penciller: Nic Klein | Cover Artist: Olivier Coipel
A few months after his coronation, Thor began feeling dissatisfied with being the King of Asgard, missing his glory days as a hero, with both Sif and Loki taking note of his desire to shirk his duties and that Mjolnir was becoming heavier. Thor's melancholy was interrupted when a badly injured Galactus crash-landed into Asgard. Thor initially attacked the World-Devourer but was told that he faced a much greater threat: the coming of the Black Winter.
Gathering Galactus' former heralds, Thor was informed by the Silver Surfer that the Black Winter had destroyed the 6th iteration of the universe, and if Galactus was going to be powerful enough to oppose it, he had to consume five special planets. Thor prepared a fleet to evacuate those planets in preparation for Galactus devouring them but was stopped by the World-Devourer telling him that the Black Winter had shown him that Thor was to be his death. Stating that he would keep a close watch over Thor from then on, Galactus imbued him with the Power Cosmic and turned him into a Herald.