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Essential Thor: V. 1 (2000)

by Stan Lee(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1904159613 (ISBN13: 9781904159612)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

series

Essential Thor

review 1: Like all of the really early Marvel stuff this was kind of hard to get through at times. For being a comic it's amazing how word heavy they were back then, although I enjoy being able to compare that to newer stuff and being able to really appreciate how far the medium has come. I have to say though, the first half of this seemed to go even slower than normal. I'm not sure why... it could be that Thor isn't really a character that I hold dear to my heart, or it could be that the stories in there seemed kind of un-marvel-ish (they were repetitive and had little carry over story wise). About halfway through the volume things picked up and felt much better. I actually found my self getting really into it. Even though I found the secret identity a little bleh, I enjoyed ... morethe Thor personality. So in short, if you can push through the first half it is worth reading, although unlike most of the early Marvel Essentials I didn't feel like there was too much essential marvel history here.
review 2: It took Kirby and Lee a long time to invent Marvel Comics. This evolution was especially slow for the character Thor. There is interest in seeing the title character grow as his world was slowly broadened, but while Lee was always editor, others wrote and drew most of the stories in this book. After the initial Lee/Kirby start, the evolution stalls for a very long time. Then Lee first and soon Kirby return and the evolution resumes, but the only story in this book that is truly satisfying, which is to say that the only story that really captures that Marvel magic, is the very last. less

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