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John Byrne
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Interesting!
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Ben Herman
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Some further thoughts about Joe Sinnott's work, and a few of my personal favorites...
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Vinny Valenti
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Wow. Swannott!!!
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That would have been a fun team on the regular "Superman" title!
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Ben Herman
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Yes, totally. I am one of those people who really feels that Curt Swan was paired with some unsuitable inkers during the Bronze Age. Frank Chiaramonte immediately comes to mind. Tex Blaisdell is another. I dislike seeing Swan inked by either of them.
Murphy Anderson is, of course, the exception. I really enjoyed "Swanderson" and I could certainly see Joe Sinnott bringing a similar slick polish to Swan's pencils.
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Jim Burdo
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Thor's hammer in the myths had a too short handle, but Sinnott's had it as very long, sometimes as in Journey Into Mystery #95 looking like croquet mallets. (This story sounds more like a DC one.)
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John Byrne
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And your point is.....?
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Robert Bradley
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All of the early Thor artists in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY - Kirby, Sinnott, Al Hartley - drew Mjolnir with a smaller head and longer handle compared to what we are accustomed to now. Many of the Marvel characters were tweaked their first few issues (including Thor, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Iron Man) until they settled into their now-familiar appearance.
In the myths Mjolnir had a short handle, but Stan and Jack were known to take a few liberties (Thor was also a redhead and had a beard in the myths) so a little experimenting until they got to what they felt worked was certainly not out of the ordinary.
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John Byrne
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It’s important to remember that in the early stories it was Don Blake with the “power” of Thor. So, blond hair. Slowly but surely the mythology crept in, bringing much confusion in its wake.
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Thor, more than any other character, makes you wonder if they were "flying by the seat of their pants" at times.
It was six years after his first appearance that we get a story (in THOR #159) telling us how Odin had placed Thor's essence into Don Blake in order to teach him humility. (This may have been the first big "retcon" in Marvel history since it was never hinted upon in Thor's earliest appearances).
Edited by Robert Bradley on 09 July 2020 at 8:19am
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John Byrne
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Hindsight being 20/20, I’ve long thought it would have been better if Thor had died saving Asgard from Ragnarok, and Odin had passed his son’s soul into the hammer. Then the whole “if he be worthy” thing would have made sense.
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That sort of thing was fairly common in the early Marvel universe. For example, Jack Kirby never seemed to remember how many toes the Hulk had on each foot.
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