COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Thor 372 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0965534013
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Owner:
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Thorseface
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Thor no. 372: "Without Justice, there is no Peace!"
Publication date: October 10, 1986
Census: As of 6/20/23, 71 copies in 9.8 (up by 6), of which 2 are signed (no change). There are no Canadian 9.8s.
Writer: Simonson
Penciller (cover and interior): Buscema
Inker: Bret Blevins, Al Williamson
Letterer: Workman
Color: Scheele
Favorite line and some thoughts:
"Are you...are you Mom's boyfriend?"
-a hopeful Mick Mortensen
The only issue in Walt's run for which he did not do the cover: Sal did the honors here.
Nurse. Jane. Foster. She's back, she's got herself a Don Blake clone, she's pregnant, and she's busy cooking because her husband can't even boil water. Well, it's 1986 in the Chicago suburbs. Peg and Al were probably her neighbors.
Bill is off, this time for good. We won't see him again in Walt's run. And Sif, for her part, doesn't leave with him. Looks like she's still down to clown with the God of Thunder, at least for the remainder of Walt's run, but if so we never see the happy couple together again.
Turns out Justice Peace was sent back in time by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to eliminate Zaniac to prevent him from possessing an Uzbekistani diplomat in the far future. Just like Terminator, but with demonic parasitic vermin. Well, he and Thor team up too late to stop the current iteration of Zaniac (Thug Thatcher) from acing 'ol Jane, so Thor taps whatever fumes might be left of Mjolnir's time travel capabilities (another ridiculously deep reference, this time to Thor no. 123).
The TVA acronym is Walt's homage the Tennessee Valley Authority and the state in which he was born. Here's a terrific recent interview where Walt explains this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DURfbGa6GH0. The TVA returned in Walt's subsequent run on the Fantastic Four. Now, of course, the organization features in the MCU's "Loki" series, hence the huge increases on the census for this book over the past year.
There's always a method to Walt's madness. The wonderful splash of Volstagg and Gudrun with their brood in Thor 368, with its connotations of generosity and abundance, anticipates the couple's adoption of the orphans Keven and Mick in this issue.
Most important: Hela finally takes her revenge on Thor, cursing him with brittle bones. Thus disabled, Thor will need an edge.
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