I knew that continuity and the original What If? books were not that distant from those original stories - we were taking those stories we grew up on and just twisting the history a little bit. I was a Marvel fan from the core days when books like Fantastic Four #1 and Amazing Fantasy #15 came out. Glut: I think Roy asked me to do What If? because he knew that I knew the old stories. But, a few issues in, now that I'd created it, I decided that I didn't really want to write What If? so I called Don Glut, because Don was looking for work, and I was looking to avoid it. What If? occurred to me as a good way to fill that bill and fill out my schedule. Roy Thomas : When I moved out to Los Angeles, I wanted to find another comic that I could write - besides Conan and The Invaders - that would keep me from having to confer with others about what their characters were up to since they were all in New York. I’m setting up a small group of people here in Los Angeles that I can work with on a regular basis.” I, of course, was interested and Roy gave me some small things to start with and, after a while, I became a regular guy for him. It was short-term employment and once I’d finished with him, I got a call from Roy Thomas who told me, “People have talked about you and I’ve seen some of your work.
Rick Hoberg : I had been working for Russ Manning doing Tarzan comics for overseas distribution. Roy knew I needed work and needed the credits, so he, very graciously, threw a job my way whenever he had the opportunity. I had been writing for both Warren and Gold Key for a number of years, but if it wasn’t Marvel or DC in those days, what you did didn’t matter to people. He was still working for Marvel as an editor and writer and Roy was trying to establish a Marvel bullpen out here on the West Coast. “we were taking those stories we grew up on and just twisting the history a little bit.” Emilio Lopez/Inverseĭon Glut :, my good friend Roy Thomas - who had been Marvel editor-in-chief after Stan Lee - moved out to the West Coast because he was interested in writing for television and motion pictures. The Viking Issue celebrates the glorious weirdness, diversity, and curious nature of everyone's favorite Scandinavian seafarers. Aaron’s story was met with great acclaim and would influence Thor Love and Thunder, but both of those stories owe a debt of gratitude to What If? issue #10 and, here to tell the story of that What If? issue are writer Don Glut, artist Rick Hoberg, and former Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas. It’s an awkward ending for a book that was intended to be - and largely delivered on - a story of female empowerment, but, hey, it was 1978.įor decades, nothing more was done with the idea of Jane as Thor until, in 2014, Marvel writer Jason Aaron and artist Russell Dauterman introduced The Mighty Thor, a story where Jane Foster picked up the hammer in the standard, 616 Marvel continuity. After she defeats Mangog, Odin quickly earns respect for Thordis and rewards her by telling her they are to be married. Still equipped with the power of Thor, Jane then becomes a hero to the people of Earth but heads back to Asgard when it’s under attack by the monster Mangog. Except, because it’s 1978, she has to effeminize the name, so she chose to call herself the none-too-catchy “Thordis.” From there, the issue portrays Thordis as reliving many of Thor’s greatest hits, but things take a turn when she heads to Asgard.įurious that this woman has taken his son’s place, Odin banishes her from Asgard in a chauvinistic tirade.
In What If? #10, pretty much the same thing happens, but Donald Blake is on vacation with his caretaker, Jane Foster, and she stumbles into the cave, finds the stick (Mjolnir), and becomes Thor. (The stick only looked like a stick, it was actually Mjolnir, and don’t worry, Marvel retconned all this to give Thor a more coherent origin story years later.) After seeing some rock-like aliens from Saturn, Blake hides in a cave where he discovers a stick, picks it up, and becomes Thor, the God of Thunder. The issue basically retold Thor’s origin story from 1962’s Journey into Mystery #8, where Donald Blake - a seemingly ordinary doctor who is disabled - is vacationing in Europe. Much like “What If the Fantastic Four Had Different Super-Powers?”, the premise of Jane picking up Thor’s hammer was built on a whim of an idea that was interesting enough to fill 32 pages.
#Stick em up comics series
At the time, the 10th issue of the series wasn’t something all that special. In early 1978, writer Don Glut had been working on the first volume of What If? for several issues, having taken over writing duties from Roy Thomas, who switched to overseeing the book as the editor. Pencils by Rick Hoberg, Inks by Dave Hunt, colors by C.
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