In Meta-Messages, we look at times that comic books employ meta-commentary, with this latest one being the time that Thor lost the ability to travel through time due to a specific comic book writer having very specific views about time-travel in the Marvel Universe.One of the interesting things about comics in the beginning of the Marvel Age of Comics is that clearly, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, and the other writers didn’t really think that what they were doing at the time would necessarily be remembered in five years, let alone sixty plus years later, and as a result, those early stories took some major swings, and occasionally, there were some notable misses. However, one of the things that they definitely WEREN’T was consistent, as they would just pull things out of thin air, and then go in a totally different direction in the next issue. It was obviously really EXCITING, too, of course, and those early issues were still a lot of fun, they just weren’t consistent at all. Soon, though, they hit a certain level of consistency, and that’s what we now think of as the “Marvel Universe.”Since things took such big and wild swings in those early years, it was notable that Thor’s fourth-ever story, Journey Into Mystery #86 (by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Dick Ayers), saw Thor actually specifically ASK Odin for the ability to travel through time with Mjolnir. This was unusual because, most of the time, writers would just pull new powers for Mjolnir out of thin air (here are some of the most unusual abilities for Mjolinir that Silver Age writers pulled out of thin air)…
In Meta-Messages, we look at times that comic books employ meta-commentary, with this latest one being the time that Thor lost the ability to travel through time due to a specific comic book writer having very specific views about time-travel in the Marvel Universe.
One of the interesting things about comics in the beginning of the Marvel Age of Comics is that clearly, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, and the other writers didn’t really think that what they were doing at the time would necessarily be remembered in five years, let alone sixty plus years later, and as a result, those early stories took some major swings, and occasionally, there were some notable misses. However, one of the things that they definitely WEREN’T was consistent, as they would just pull things out of thin air, and then go in a totally different direction in the next issue. It was obviously really EXCITING, too, of course, and those early issues were still a lot of fun, they just weren’t consistent at all. Soon, though, they hit a certain level of consistency, and that’s what we now think of as the “Marvel Universe.”
Since things took such big and wild swings in those early years, it was notable that Thor’s fourth-ever story, Journey Into Mystery #86 (by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Dick Ayers), saw Thor actually specifically ASK Odin for the ability to travel through time with Mjolnir. This was unusual because, most of the time, writers would just pull new powers for Mjolnir out of thin air (here are some of the most unusual abilities for Mjolinir that Silver Age writers pulled out of thin air)…
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