Appearing in "This Hammer Lost!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Space Phantom ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Phantoms (supposed residents of Phantus) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Hyperion (Referenced)
- Mimir (Referenced)
- Eternals (Only in recap)
- Deviants (Referenced)
- Deviant Mutates (Only in recap)
- Thunder (Only in recap)
- Dromedan (Only in recap)
- World-Devouring Worm (Only in recap)
- Celestials (Only in recap)
- Arishem the Judge (Only in recap)
- Spider-Man (Vision or hallucination)
- Captain America (Vision or hallucination)
- Dr. Doom (Vision or hallucination)
- Fantastic Four (Vision or hallucination)
- Reed Richards (Vision or hallucination)
- Susan Storm (Vision or hallucination)
- Ben Grimm (Vision or hallucination)
- Johnny Storm (Vision or hallucination)
- Avengers (Only in recap)
- Iron Man (Only in recap) (Also as a vision or hallucination)
- Giant Man (Only in recap) (Also as a vision or hallucination)
- Wasp (Only in recap)
- Hawkeye (Only in recap)
- Black Panther (Only in recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Only in recap)
- Grim Reaper (Only in recap)
- Immortus (Only in flashback)
- Rigellian Colonizers (Mentioned)
- Odin (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Asgardians (Main story and recap)
- Eternals (Only in recap)
- Deviants (Only in recap)
- Celestials (Only in recap)
- Space Phantoms
Locations:
Items:
- Mjolnir (Main story and recap)
Vehicles:
- Time-Cube (Vision or hallucination)
Synopsis for "This Hammer Lost!"
Thor dwells upon what he has learned about the Eternals and the Celestials after some long-lost memories were recently restored.[1] He decides that he will travel back in time to when the Celestials first appeared on Earth. However, once in the timestream, Mjolnir vanishes from his grasp and Thor is left in a land of fog and shadows. He is then confronted by the Space Phantom, who tells him that he is in Limbo. The Space Phantom reveals his origin and shows Thor his planet, Phantus, which has been pulled halfway into Limbo, claiming that Mjolnir has undoubtedly been attracted to the vortex to real-time at the planet's core. Thor agrees to help him save Phantus if he will help find Mjolnir. Once on the surface, they are repeatedly attacked by the warring Phantoms. The Space Phantom leads Thor to a complex containing a shaft that leads to the core. Thor leaps in, but it was a trap. The Space Phantom planned on using Thor's immortal body like a cork to plug the hole from real-time to Limbo so that Phantus would slip back into its own space/time continuum. However, what the Space Phantom didn't know was that, now that Thor was partially out of Limbo, 60 seconds had passed for him, so that part of his body has begun to change into his mortal counterpart, Dr. Donald Blake.
Notes
- Plot assist by Gillis and Catron.
Trivia
- In the original published version of this issue, pages 16 and 17 were accidentally switched and printed out of order.