NaNoWriMo 2025, day 12: The Snuff of Legends
Thor had red hair long ago/And a beard/And a boy companion named Thialfi/And he drank so much ocean the tide ebbed/Not noticing his beer was actually seawater
Millennia later Stan Lee came along/Having co-created superheroes and having space to fill in the monster-genre comic Journey Into Mystery/He told his brother Larry to bring thunder god Thor into the fold/And Larry and Jack “King” Kirby concocted a myth of a myth/Turning timid but worthy Dr. Don Blake into the hammer-wielding blonde prettyboy Thor/And with the hammer BlakeSlashThor discouraged some rockpile-looking invaders from Saturn from conquering the Earth
Silly though this may seem/A not-even-mint copy of Journey Into Mystery #83 is now on sale on eBay/With an asking price of $39,500.00 US
(But hey–free shipping)
And Thor became the stuff of new legends
And is now featured in several movies
But the Marvel Cinematic Universe retrofit the Thor legend to mostly ditch Dr. Don Blake and turn Jane Foster from Blake’s decorative, pining nurse to a kickass scientist specializing in weird energies
So there’s now a myth of a myth of a myth
Please look into it if you haven’t
You don’t want to myth out
One with Clay, Image and Text 
My dad used to get marvel comics, but when he died mom threw them all out! I loved reading them. I wonder what they would have been worth in pounds?
There are two important factors, Christine, being Rarity and Condition. Once upon a time I owned the first issue of X-Men. Had my mom not thrown it away, it might fetch £25,000 or so today
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