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The Time Variance Authority (TVA) first appeared in Thor #372 (October 1986). [1] Created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema, the TVA originally paid homage to long-time Marvel writer/editor and continuity expert Mark Gruenwald: the TVA staff were all visually designed as clones of Gruenwald (the classification system for alternate realities—the Marvel multiverse—was devised, in part, by ...
Walter Simonson was born September 2, 1946, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived there for two and a half years.When his father, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, received a promotion at work that required him to relocate to Washington, D.C., Simonson, his younger brother and his parents moved to Maryland, where Simonson's parents still lived as of 1989. [3]
Bill was created by Walt Simonson as a new concept for the title Thor. Simonson said, I wanted to start fresh, and I thought a new character would be the way to go on that. My thinking was that comics are a short form, and one of the things that's mostly true about comics characters are what they look like ...
Malekith the Accursed (/ ˈ m æ l ə k ɪ θ /) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.He is the ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim, and has come into conflict with Thor.
The Midgard Serpent debuted in Marvel Tales #105 (February 1952) and was later tied firmly to Marvel continuity in the Silver Age of Comic Books in Thor #127 (April 1966). As in Norse mythology, the Marvel version of the Midgard Serpent is the nemesis of the Thunder God, who has two encounters with the creature – the events based directly on mythology – in Thor #272-273 (June–July 1978).
Carl "Crusher" Creel was a boxer and jailed criminal who becomes the Absorbing Man when he drinks a liquid which the Asgardian god Loki laced with a mystical potion. [13] [14] Discovering that he could absorb the properties of anything he touched, Creel escapes prison by absorbing metal from the guards' bullets and goes on to battle Thor. [15]
Surprise cameos and a sweet coda: Director Taika Waititi and the film's stars explain what exactly is going on in the end credits of the latest Marvel blockbuster — and what it means for the ...
Walter Simonson wrote a celebrated run of Thor in the 1980s. Kirby stayed on as Thor's artist until Thor #179 (1970). [24] Lee eventually ceded control of the titles he worked on to other writers, and Thor was given to Gerry Conway, who at the time was a teenager. John and Sal Buscema were the artists for this run. [25]