Thor Vol 1 197

Thor Vol 1 #197
Previous Issue	Thor #196
Next Issue	Thor #198
Art by: John Romita and Artie Simek
Cover Date	March, 1972
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Roy Thomas

1. "The Well at the Edge of the World!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Gerry Conway
Penciler(s)	John Buscema
Inker(s)	Vince Colletta
Letterer(s)	Artie Simek
Editor(s)	Stan Lee

 My father, what hast thou done to me? Hast thou stolen the privilege of fighting by thy side--? -- Hast thous stolen from me, thy dying words? Thy fatherly hand, thy fatherly smile? 

—Thor

Appearing in "The Well at the Edge of the World!"

Featured Characters:

• Thor

Supporting Characters:

• The Warriors Three
  • Fandral
  • Hogun
  • Volstagg
• Kartag
• Satrina
• The Norns
  • Urd
  • Skuld
  • Verdandi
• Odin (Appears in mystic vision and main story)

Antagonists:

• Mangog (Appears in mystic vision and main story)
• unidentified Blackworld monster

Other Characters:

• Hela (Vision)
• Loki (Vision)
• Sif (Appears in mystic vision and main story)
• Hildegarde
• Silas Grant (First appearance)
• Khan (Vision) (Deceased)
• unnamed Asgardians (Deceased)
• unnamed Asgardians

Races and Species:

• Asgardians
• Frost Giants (Vision)
• Giants of Jotunheim (Vision)
• Norns
• Humans

Locations:

• normal enthropic universe
  • World's End
    • Twilight Well
  • Blackworld
• somewhere outside the normal enthropic universe
  • Asgard
    • City of Asgard
    • Bifrost
    • Cosmic Well (Mentioned)

Items:

• Mjolnir
• Water from the Twilight Well
• Sif's magic sword

Vehicles:

• Silas Grant's steamship & lifeboat

Synopsis for "The Well at the Edge of the World!"

Thor is defeated by Kartag, but the Norns intervene and grant Thor his request of water from the Twilight Well. They command Kartag to accompany the Asgardians back to fight Mangog. They arrive just in time, as Mangog is about to kill Odin. Meanwhile, Sif and Hildegarde fight off a monster on Blackworld before meeting Silas Grant, a native who promises to tell them who is responsible of the mysterious changes all around them.

Solicit Synopsis

(Mislabeled as THOR #196:) Who could possibly smash Thor, Odin, and all the hosts of Asgard? No one but - Mangog! With a climax that'll stun you!

Notes

• Thor's image on this cover is recycled (flipped and a smile added to his face) and used for marketing and later cover image logos such as this one.

• As seen on page one, this issue is Story#814-Z.

• This issue contains a letters page, The Hammer Strikes. Letters are published from Virginia Seagate, Alfred Massi, and Jeff Freun.

Trivia

• The Bifrost is shown "dissolved" this issue, but appears intact in Thor #199. Since Odin was extremely weakened and near death,,, I wonder who had the power and time to repair the Rainbow Bridge? (Thor was also preopccupied with his father's death and the coming of Hela for the All-Father.)

See Also

• 2 image(s) from Thor Vol 1 197
• 2 reprint(s) of Thor Vol 1 197

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