On a visit to Avengers Mansion, Thor is working out and
starts talking to Wasp. Thor changes into Donald Blake and he and Jan have a
nice chat lasting several hours. Meanwhile downtown, reality begins to warp and
Graviton arrives, having escaped the dimension he was trapped in. He goes to
the home of his former love and finds Judy Parks is now married to Joe and
expecting a baby; she tells Graviton she could never love a man like him and he
could have any other woman he wanted. The villain then decides to follow up on
that, asking a bartender where he could meet classy women; bartender suggests a
high-end clothing store like Bloomingdale’s. Graviton heads to the fashionable shop
and levitates the entire building into the sky; entering, he announces over the
store intercom that he is looking for a bride and offering the store as a
dowry. Thor, on his way back to Chicago, sees the floating store and enters to
find everyone and everything inside also floating. After being filled in on the
situation, Thor hunts down Graviton and hurls his hammer at the villain, who
halts it in mid-air with his powers and reminds Thor that if he is knocked unconscious,
the store will plummet to Earth, killing everyone inside. Graviton then bounces
Thor around and hurls him out through the wall without his hammer. He plummets
and summons Mjolnir to him but it arrives as he transforms back to Don Blake
with the hammer becoming a stick. Don drops hundreds of feet to the pavement
but places the stick under him so that it hits the ground a fraction of a second
before Don and he becomes Thor once more. As Blake he stops by a drugstore
before heading up to face the villain, who is creeping on as many women as he
can find. Thor injects the villain with sodium pentothal so that he must return
the building to the ground lest he pass out and perish when it plummets. Thor
explains to confused former hostages that he also had a stimulant ready to wake
Graviton up should his first plan fail. Thor then takes the villain to outer space
where he leaves him and returns to Chicago….
“A Gathering of Evil”
Writer: Doug Moench. Pencils: Alan Kupperberg. Inks: Jim
Mooney. Colors: George Roussos.
Synopsis: Having married Frigga, Odin says a tearful goodbye
to his old flame Queen Jolena. Loki spies them, gets the wrong idea, and is
soon announcing to Asgard that Odin has been cheating on his wife. Loki then
joins Tyr, who holds a grudge against Odin, in a plot to overthrow the All-Father
and the first step would be to steal the Golden Apples of Idunn, without which
Odin and his gods would becomes weak and easy to defeat. So the two baddies go
out recruiting more enemies to their cause: Hela, declines
the offer, having made peace with Odin but the Storm Giants, the sons of
Surtur, Karnilla the Norn Queen, and the Wolfing Warriors gladly join the forces
gathering against the All-Father….