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Thor
First appearance : Journey into Mystery #83 (1962)
Stan Lee, his brother Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby reinvented the Norse thunder god as a Marvel hero in Journey into Mystery #83 (1962). Kirby's cosmic Asgard — gods, rainbow bridge and all — became one of the most spectacular visual mythologies in comics.
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