Thors First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous Variant

Thor’s First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous Variant

Daniel Warren Johnson’s cover for Thor #18 is an amazingly faithful homage to Jack Kirby’s Journey Into Mystery #83 featuring the Mighty Throg.

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Thors First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous Variant

Daniel Warren Johnson has done it again with an incredible homage variant based on Thor’s first appearance. The homage is taken directly from the cover of Journey Into Mystery #83 drawn by Jack Kirby and features one of the best characters to wield the powerful Mjolnir, the Mighty Throg!

Originally published in August 1962, Journey Into Mystery #83 marked the first comic to feature Marvel’s Thor. Written and drawn by Jack Kirby with dialogue and co-plotting by Stan and Larry Lieber, Thor exploded onto the pages of the science fiction anthology and proved that fans were hungry for a modernized take on the God of Thunder. The cover to Journey Into Mystery #83 quickly became iconic and would inspire a number of homages in the years to come.

Johnson’s homage appears on a variant cover of Thor #18 that is exclusively available through The Hall of Comics. Thor #18 by writer Danny Cates and pencils by Pasqual Ferry features the glorious return of the fan favorite amphibian Throg, and Johnson’s homage variant is a fitting tribute to the Frog of Thunder. Throg’s appearance on this homage is one more in a line of homages to Jack Kirby’s original, and it’s one of the best.

Thors First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous VariantThors First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous Variant

The first homage to Journey Into Mystery #83 was 1978’s What If #10, which featured the first appearance of Jane Foster as Thor, and was originally drawn by Jack Kirby himself. Marvel decided to have the cover redrawn by John Buscema, which unfortunately was pretty common in Jack Kirby’s career. For a What If story, having a homage cover absolutely made sense to emphasize the alternate reality aspect of the story. The next cover to homage Thor’s first appearance was drawn by Art Adams for 1985’s X-Men Annual #9, and featured Storm in Thor’s role. The cover was inked by Walt Simonson, the creator of Beta Ray Bill, and the man Throg (otherwise known as Simon Walterson) is named after.

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Thors First Comic Gets Reimagined With His Most Ridiculous Variant

The Marvel homages continued with 1992’s Thor #450 drawn by Ron Frenz, and 1996’s Thor #495 drawn by Tom Grindberg, before returning to Jane Foster again on 2007’s Avengers Next #2 drawn by Mike Wieringo. Venom even got in on the hammer swinging action on Clayton Crain’s 2019 variant of War of the Realms #1. Other companies have created first appearance of Thor parodies and homages as limited variants and one shots, but Daniel Warren Johnson’s Throg cover feels fresh and inspired, and unlike the X-Men and War of the Realms covers, tie directly into Thor’s mythology.

With Daniel Warren Johnson currently writing and drawing Marvel’s Beta Ray Bill series, it feels like only a matter of time before Johnson gifts us with another Journey Into Mystery #83 homage featuring everyone’s favorite hammer of Thor-wielding horse-faced alien.

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