Since the events of Ragnarok, Thor has been dreaming: recalling his victories and losses as both the Norse God of Thunder and as the human physician Dr. Donald Blake. Now, Thor’s hammer Mjonir falls to Earth creating a huge crater in a rural area; a curious bystander touches it and a bolt of lightning summons Thor back into existence. In a shadowy void, Thor discovers who has summoned him back: Don Blake, his human host while on Earth, who had been erased from existence by the Odinpower. But now Don is real again, as the Odinpower has lost its force with the death of Odin. Don tells Thor that he is needed once more. Thor balks at the idea of returning to the cycle of death and rebirth, but Don explains how the choice is up to him, the cycle has been broken and now the Thunder God can create his own destiny, rebuild Asgard and reawaken the gods and return them to existence. Thor is then attacked by the monsters that inhabit the void, and he must fight his way through to life—and when he grasps Mjolnir by the handle, he is transfigured into the Thunder God of old, defeats his enemies and chooses to return to life….
Dr. Donald Blake arrives in a small town in Oklahoma and rents a room in a hotel run by the sweet Beth Sooner. Don goes up to his room, sits on his bed and strikes his walking stick on the ground—and lighting illuminates the sky with a crash of thunder….