Marvel Comics has often push to make their lineament interact with " the world outside your window , " but one has been doing that for far , far longer than any of the others . TheFantastic Fourmay be cerebrate of as Marvel ’s First Family because they were the first character co - created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961 when they get down their intense period of publishing that caused a gyration in the universe of superhero comics . Prince Namor , the Sub - Mariner and the original Human Torch may be the first characters seen in the first issue ofMarvel Comics#1 back in 1939 and fought Nazi Germany during World War II . Yet , they are just the oldest Marvel superheroes that are wholly original . Thorwas an old case before Stan and Jack were even born and has been involved with real - world chronicle all along the way .

Lee , Kirby , and Larry Lieber create the Mighty Thor in the pages ofJourney Into Mystery#83 , which landed on newsstand and in the hands of the children of America in July of 1962 - commit his departure behind those other heroes . But in a very real sense , Thor was , for a very , very , very farsighted prison term , the oldest Marvel Comics superhero . Thor may have look in this specific form in a comical book after many others but even in the Marvel Universe ? He was there far before the residue of them . Truly , just as it was in the literal earth . He is nearly immortal , a God of Thunder bulk large over everything that has ever bechance , live in a heightened style beyond human imagination .

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Thor , after all , is n’t originally a superhero . He was believed to be an actual immortal and was worship and beg to in Northern Europe during time dating so far back even scholars ca n’t be sure . keep this in mind will always make you reconsider how much Thor appear to be a full - of - himself jerk . The former percipient recorded mention of Thor is in an inscription dated to the sixth or 7th Century and the poems that really tell his stories would be recorded in the thirteenth Century . But we do n’t really know how far back Thor ’s line of life goes because none of them let out Thor ’s origins ( nor have the funnies ) .   These poems described a world of power and loftiness . This is the world Thor comes from , the populace before humanness first arrived .

In the Beginning: Asgard Established

The remarkable originative team of Lee and Kirby did not signify to leave these ancient stones unturned and the year after Thor debuted .   They began a secondary five - page back - up feature article called " Tales of Asgard . " This was now late 1963 . But there fan learned thepre - account of pre - historyas the classic stories were re - separate aboutThor ’s father , Odin , and many of the other gods of the Norse pantheon . finally , these short pants even unfolded some narration of Thor before he was banished to Earth ( or Midgard as the ancient Germans called it ) by Odin , to live as a frail individual identify Dr. Donald Blake and study humbleness . These story cement the concept that had only been implied before : this superhero is the god of ancientness , Thor Odinson , born before the startle of humanity itself .

And there ’s really no way to know how long before human account . Regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe , we have a more firm understanding of the issue because inAvengers : Infinity Warthe quality , expertly played by actor Chris Hemsworth , specifically says , " You know , I ’m 1,500 long time quondam . I ’ve shoot down double as many foe as that . " But in the comics , it ’s much toilsome to immobilise down . The earliest sense of the depth of this time comes fromJourney Into Mystery#85 , Loki ’s first visual aspect . Loki says he has been trapped on Asgard for … Well , it ’s not clear how recollective . " Ages " was Lieber ’s answer in the script to most situation in which time has passed in these other result ofThor . So Loki says : " Ages ago , the immortal doom me to be trapped within this Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ! " and " Thor has not been in Asgard for age ! No one knows where he is ! " and " It has been ages since I was last on Earth ! " all in two pages .

Over A Long Lifetime: A God Evolves

Many Thor writers over the long time have given us tantalizing hints amid vague history of the intersection of Asgard and Earth but very little in decipherable milestones of time . Lee accept over all committal to writing responsibility from his brother Larry Lieber withJourney Into Mystery#97 and in issue 98 the unnamed narrator declares “ For time as we cognize it intend nothing to the Supreme Being of Asgard ” when Thor is whisked off to Asgard for the umptieth fourth dimension . J. Michael Straczynski’sThor#3 , from 2007 describe Thor visit New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and reminisces about the instauration of Orléans , France by Emperor of Rome , Aurelian in 275 A.D. and the conflict agitate there over 1,000 year later by Jeanne d’Arc , cement the idea that Thor interacted with humans on their grade . The flashbacks in Jason Aaron ’s 2012 serial , fresh rechristenedThor : God of Thunder , take place in 893 A.D. according to the caption that open most of those issues . These draw a teenage Thor who ’s not yet suitable of liftinghis mystic pounding , Mjölnir . Just recently , in Donny Cates ' third issue onThor , write out # 729 , Cates made the big , clearest , and most poetical statement on Thor ’s close - immortality yet . He and creative person Nic Klein opened the issue with a panoramic showing of an vivid ancient struggle against some race of monstrosity on some extraneous world and explained that the readers do n’t recognize it because neither would Thor , it was too long ago . The memory is " mislay , in the ocean of his immortal mind . "

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We have to remember that the nose drops God lived through not just the times of the Romans and the Vikings , but also the Egyptians , Mesopotamians , the Paleolithic cave - dwellers , maybe even the birth of our species itself . Humans only appear 315,000 years ago . Thor could presumptively tell us about all of human pre - story and the time before man appeared on Earth ! Thor , is not only the God of Thunder but also , very possibly , a attestator to nearly everything that has ever happened . Among the only hold out thing with more experience would be Thor ’s father Odin ! Combined , their computer memory stretch over more than a billion years . They do n’t live in a Marvel Universe as it exists " outside your window " but they could recite you about the huge duad of the worldbeforethe globe outside your windowpane !

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The Mighty Avenger has always hold a somewhat unique position . One of the first few superheroes derive from mythology , he sit at the crossroad between myth and popular culture . He fits into the Avengers and the larger Marvel Universe only because we have gotten used to him there . Earth andAsgard and all the Nine Realmsmake his level seem epical and above human concerns . struggle in diachronic wars and his 20th Century ostracism by Odin can dish to humanize him , but only partly .

When one considers how old Thor is and how much he ’s experienced and execute   — just what he ’s seen passively with time   — it ’s easier to understand why he can be a little haughty . It also brings home how vivid the trouble in adjust and live on on Midgard was during his banishment . Thor seems to have memorize the lesson from his time living as Blake . Do n’t overlook the immeasurablerespect Thor must have for Steve Rogersto agree to take orders from the good Captain . Most human being would certainly seem like less than ants to a near immortal god . WheneverThordefers to a mortal on anything we can conclude he has learned the lesson of humbleness Odin sent him to Earth to learn in those original Stan Lee Silver Age story . The character has learned to take himself lowly , look at that which seems small than him , and abide by it . As the opening night line of the first " Tales of Asgard " short tale Stan Lee and Jack Kirby made said , " Before man could scan or spell , he had his caption ! "

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