[Peter] "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor. " Odin enchanted the hammer Mjolnir to teach his son a moral lesson. Thor, the God of Thunder, felt like he was the last piece of cake and needed a lesson in humility.
And there? Is it worth what is written? We called our lawyers and learned the shocking truth: Mjolnir is from DC.
The hammer first appeared in DC several times, before Marvel used the same idea. I was right there in DC! A DC hero, who has even appeared in the movies, wield it first!
Was it plagiarism? Did Odin steal the stuff? You will understand this mess now.
Hey Nerd, what's up? Peter here! Thor Odinson appeared in comics in 1962, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Save this date: 1962. We are going to talk about this date, this timeline here will be important. It was very different from what we know today.
At the time, he was the human doctor Donald Blake, a physically handicapped man who transformed into Thor when he knocked a magic cane on the ground. There was an old cartoon of that, the old ones, those who are old will remember what I'm talking about. The cane was the hammer Mjolnir in disguise.
He knocked and that lame doctor became Thor, and that Cane became Mjolnir. If Donald Blake stayed sixty seconds away from Mjolnir, the transformation was reversed. Over time that changed, of course.
Stan Lee himself sent a retcon there and it was established that Donald Blake was always Thor, he just lost his memory. Odin wanted so much to teach his son humility that he put Thor in the body of a mortal, who pulled from one leg on top. But… what about that whole hammer thing?
How is it? Finding isn't stealing and three DC characters have preference there. .
. it's a lawsuit over Odin! Let's understand!
But first, comment below, would you lift Thor's hammer? Crazy thing, huh! No, that's not it, I want to know this: do you miss that tough Thor?
Are you in need of a tough Thor again in theaters? Comment down here, let's take advantage of this theme for you to comment down here, okay? Let's go.
Remember I said that Marvel's Thor appeared in 1962? So long before that, in 1940, Mjolnir was already debuting at DC. The Asgardian hammer originally appeared in the hands of Carter Hall, Hawkman.
It's the same character we saw in theaters trying to beat up Black Adam and getting his ass kicked, the leader of the Justice Society in the movie. When Hawkman appeared in the comics, he arrived using a weapon that was called the Hammer of Thor. The weird thing is that Hawkman had strong ties to Egyptian mythology, but he was wielding a weapon from another mythology.
In the story, the hammer is an iron ball on a handle and would be useful for its strength. Carter Hall also calls Thor a "blacksmith". Anyway, DC realized that the bagasse didn't make much sense and made a retcon.
We learned later that the hammer had been manufactured by an "Ancestral Race", which had disappeared from the planet a long time ago. The so-called “hammer” also gained iron spikes. In other words, it turned into a mace.
This has been Hawkman's default weapon in magazines for decades. This was even the weapon that the character used in the Black Adam movie. In addition, Hawkman started to be marked by truculence, he is a guy who doesn't take shit home and hits with will.
I don't know if you could call the guy noble or worthy of Mjolnir in the Marvel version. Now, there was another DC hero who also wielded Thor's hammer before Thor himself in Marvel. In 1944, it was the turn of Jay Garrick, of the Justice Society.
This sim is a well of dignity, one of the noblest and kindest heroes of DC's so-called Golden Age. Jay Garrick used Mjolnir in battle against a Viking warrior named Sven Scarface. The madman had found Thor's hammer centuries ago, but it had been frozen in a glacier.
Sven Scarface thaws in the present and gives work. But Jay Garrick manages to take the hammer out of the guy's hand and wins the battle. And what happened to that hammer?
Thor's real hammer? DC answered that one in 1959, also before Marvel's Thor debuted. The hammer was in the Gotham City Museum.
The gun was struck by lightning and became charged. Mjolnir then transformed Henry Menke, the museum owner. The guy who was an ordinary person became.
. . Thor, the God of Thunder.
I'm not kidding, it happened! This was just three years before Stan Lee came up with the same idea. As you know, Thor was actually a god in Norse mythology.
Myth has no owner, no copyright. If I want to do a version of Thor, I can. Anyone can.
Anyway, Henry Menke turned to evil and started committing crimes. The villain came out on the slap with none other than Batman. And lost.
As? Preparation, people, intelligence. Batman deciphered how the guy had turned into Thor and outsmarted him.
Batman managed to get Menke to hit a fuse box with the hammer, the electrical discharge reversed the transformation. If electricity made the guy turn Thor, electricity could make him untap. Comic book stuff from the 50's.
After that, this version of Thor's Hammer was pretty much settled in the DC universe. It must still be in the museum today. If DC decides to use it, it's going to rain Marvel fans complaining that it's a copy, that it can't and such.
If DC pulls out that hammer Mjolnir again and gives the powers of Thor, God of Thunder to someone else in there, a lot of people will be like "Hey, DC is copying", you know? Now, Marvel's Mjolnir has also been lifted by DC heroes. This happened in two different crossovers.
In 1996, during the Marvel versus DC saga, Wonder Woman lifted Thor's hammer. Thor had gone out on a slap with SHAZAM and gone soft with the hammer. Diana saw Mjolnir brewing and picked up the weapon.
In the same instant, Wonder Woman was transformed and given the powers of the Goddess of Thunder. In 2004, it was Superman's turn to hold Thor's hammer. The rubbish is rotated too much!
This time, it was a consensual bid. Thor himself loaned Superman Mjolnir to beat up a villain who was threatening both universes. It was an epic moment because Kal-El also wielded Captain America's shield in the same battle.
And there? Who actually owns it? Can you take the case to court?
Imagine if Thor loses custody of the hammer? Comment below: who else at DC do you think would be worthy of lifting Marvel's Mjolnir? C'mon, let's begin!
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