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Synopsis for "Blood of a Goddess!"

At a police station in Chicago, Lieutenant Timpano is interviewing Dr. Donald Blake in connection to the disappearance of Jane Foster, a nurse with whom Blake was once romantically involved. Timpano suggests that, several years ago, Blake may have wanted to rekindle their affair but Jane, who then involved with her new boss, Dr. Keith Kincaid, refused, so Blake pulled out a gun and killed her. Although Blake insists that that did not happen, Timpano points out that it does explain how Jane Foster just vanished and gives Blake a motive for moving from New York City to Chicago. When Dr. Kincaid arrives, Blake gets a strange feeling about him and Timpano observes how much alike they look. Kincaid reveals that he and Jane had been in love and were engaged to be married but that, one day when he was out of town on business, Jane took ill and was hospitalized. By the time he returned, Jane had mysteriously disappeared without a trace and private detectives he hired could only discover that she was last seen in the company of Donald Blake. Timpano wants an explanation but Blake refuses, since revealing what really happened, that Sif had saved Jane's life by transferring her living energy into Jane's body but that Jane had later transformed into Sif and has remained that way, would expose his true identity as Thor. Since Blake has not been charged, he's allowed to leave, but Timpano states that his stonewalling makes him think Blake might be guilty.

Once outside, Blake enters an alley and transforms into Thor who then begins flying to New York City to get the Runestaff of Kamo Tharnn that he feels might be the key to what happened to Jane Foster.

After saving a young boy who had run out into traffic, Sif sees a newspaper headline about Donald Blake being questioned in Jane Foster's disappearance.

In New York City, Thor visits Midtown Hospital but the only person who remembers the Runestaff is the superintendent, Oli Sundval, who can only tell Thor that it disappeared from storage one day. Thor next goes to Avengers Mansion where he tells new members Captain Marvel and Starfox about his plight. They can't help but do promise to keep their eyes open.

Back in Chicago, the vampire Dracula awakens among his followers who have just completed a ritual to strengthen him. Dracula then goes out for a night flight and to get some blood.

When Thor arrives from New York City, Sif greets him on the rooftop of Blake's apartment building. Thor asks her if she knows where the Runestaff might be but Sif has no idea. Neither of them notice the large bat flying nearby as Dracula senses a power below him.

Later, after five students leave Schechter High School after a late-night yearbook meeting and begin walking home through the fog, two of them go their own way and the remaining three notice that the fog is following them. They run but end up in the clutches of Dracula who mesmerizes them and then drinks enough of their blood to kill them.

The next morning, Lt. Timpano is at Community General Hospital where he assures the families of the three dead kids that he's doing everything he can to find the animal responsible. While viewing the corpses in the morgue, the lieutenant mentions that he wouldn't mind having Thor's help on this case. This is overheard by Blake, who has just entered the morgue after having been asked to look at the bodies by Dr. Jerry Weinberg. Once Timpano has left, the morgue doctor shows Blake the neck wounds on the three kids and mentions a fourth victim who's in the freezer, all of whom died from severe blood loss. Soon afterwards, as Timpano is about to drive away from the hospital, Thor lands beside his car and offers to help with his investigation.

That night, Dracula awakens, sure that it was a true immortal goddess (Sif) that he had perceived. He then agrees when one of the Brotherhood requests that they be allowed to conjure on the next night, and decides to delay his planned visit the goddess to the following night.

Two nights later, Sif lies sleeping in Blake's bed but he's still awake, obsessed with the missing Runestaff. When he thinks that he can't blame the Avengers for not having been much help since it's a mystical matter, he suddenly realizes that Doctor Strange might be able to help. Blake changes into Thor and plans to fly again to New York City, but first he goes to the hospital so that Blake can perform his night rounds there. However, when he arrives, Thor spots Lt. Timpano who reveals that the body of the unidentified fourth victim has been stolen. Hearing a report on his car's radio of a mugging in progress only two blocks away, the two of them speed there and Timpano is shocked to see that the mugger is the missing corpse who is unaffected by his bullets. Realizing that Blake's suspicions were correct, Thor hurls Mjolnir at the vampire who dodges it but is then struck by it as it returns to Thor's hand. Having been a object of worship, contact with Mjolnir causes the vampire to burst into flames, leaving ashes that crumble into dust. After learning from Timpano where the three youths were buried, Thor flies to Mundelein Cemetery where the three dead teenagers have risen from their graves and attacked the groundskeeper, Polowski. When Thor arrives, the vampires try to flee by turning into huge vampire bats but Thor summons a rainstorm to slow their escape and then strikes them, one by one, with Mjolnir, destroying them all by turning them into dust. After ending the rainstorm, Thor recognizes Polowski who admits that he had been the Crusader's assistant, but Thor tells him that bygones are bygones. As Lt. Timpano arrives, Thor flies away but calls back to him that the vampires have been vanquished.

Meanwhile, in Blake's apartment, a sleeping Sif hears someone (a bat) tapping on the windows and, while dreaming of Thor, drowsily calls out for her prince to enter. Having thus been invited in, the bat enters through the partly-open window and transforms into Dracula who then drinks from the neck of the still-sleeping Sif. With her blood on his lips, Dracula declares that the ravishing goddess is now his!

Notes

  • Dr. Keith Kincaid's full name is revealed for the first time in this issue's story.
  • Kincaid's story doesn't mention that Jane Foster was hospitalized for weeks and that Thor was often at her bedside.
  • The scene on page 7 in which Dracula interacts with his cultists also appears on pages 5-6 of Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #59. However, although both versions of that scene are very similar, they aren't identical. The Doctor Strange version of that scene includes a panel in which Dracula asks a Darkholder a question and receives a reply that is relevant to that issue's plot. In this issue, that exchange is removed and replaced with Dracula saying something else. The Marvel Chronology Project's listing for Dracula has a detailed breakdown of how the two versions of that scene can be fit together to make a single coherent whole.
  • Although Dracula's minions are identified as Darkholders in that Doctor Strange storyline, they are not referred to by that name in either of their Thor appearances.
  • Earth-83632 is a timeline in which Don Blake killed Jane Foster in a jealous rage, as theorized by Lieutenant Timpano in this issue. Given that Timpano's scenario was based on "facts" that aren't likely to have ever been true in any reality, this timeline seems more theoretical than actual.

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  1. ↑ Police lieutenant investigating the disappearance of Jane Foster.
  2. ↑ Lawyer representing Don Blake in the case of Jane Foster's disappearance.
  3. ↑ Child that runs out into traffic and is saved by Sif.
  4. ↑ Superintendent at Midtown Hospital who runs the storage department.
  5. ↑ Student at Schechter High School who is attacked by Dracula and turned into a vampire.
  6. ↑ Student at Schechter High School who is attacked by Dracula and turned into a vampire.
  7. ↑ Student at Schechter High School who was not attacked by Dracula.
  8. ↑ Student at Schechter High School who was not attacked by Dracula.
  9. ↑ Student at Schechter High School who is attacked by Dracula and turned into a vampire.
  10. ↑ Doctor who assists Don Blake during surgery at Community General Hospital.
  11. ↑ an unidentified man who was turned into a vampire.
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