Dates
- Cover date
- 2013
- On sale
- August 7, 2013
- Pages
- 236
Editions and covers (2)
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- 2nd printing
Second Edition
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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Stories
- Doom! · 24 pages
Nick Fury asks Thor's aid in investigating an alien ship heading for earth. Thor arrives and triggers the awakening of an alien protector, Beta Ray Bill. Bill bests Thor and takes up his hammer only to be accidentally summoned to Asgard by Odin who thinks he is summoning Thor.
- A Fool and His Hammer... · 22 pages
Bill and Thor fight in single combat for the honor of wielding Mjolner and the alien bests the god of thunder.
- Something Old, Something New... · 22 pages
Odin has the dwarves create a hammer for Bill and sends the alien and his son into space to rescue Bill's people.
- Though Hel Should Bar the Way! · 22 pages
Thor, Sif and Bill save the latters people from alien demons. Odin gives Bill a civilian identity when he strikes his hammer on the ground.
- The Past Is a Bucket of Ashes · 22 pages
Thor loses the Don Blake identity and gains secret identity of Sigurd Jarlson courtesy of Nick Fury. Sigurd gets a job as a construction worker but the site is wrecked by Fafnir looking for the god of thunder.
- The Last Viking! · 21 pages
Thor is called to an old viking village in the arctic wastes where an old viking, last of his people, tries to trick the thunder god into killing him so he can enter Valhalla.
- If I Should Die Before I Wake...! · 24 pages
Eilif is granted strength by Odin so he can assist Thor in fighting Fafnir.
- Whatever Happened to Balder the Brave? · 22 pages
Balder is sent by Odin to make the perilous journey to Loki's realm to ask the god of mischief for aid in combating an ancient evil. Malekith makes it there first and sways Loki to his side. Balder, forced to break his vow of nonviolence by a taunting Loki, cuts off the schemer's head and wanders into the desert to die. Loki, the trickster, retrieves his head and replaces it.
- That Was No Lady · 22 pages
Lorelei continues her seduction of Thor. Malekith and the Dark Elves try to capture the Casket of Ancient Winters from its keeper, but the Casket is passed on to his son for protection.