Thor manifests as Thunderbolt Jaxon in 1949!
Decades before Marvel's Thor , there was Thunderbolt Jaxon (1949!), an Australian sort-of Shazam-style superhero featured intermittently in Comet and Knockout comics. A youngster finds Megingjörð, Thor's belt of strength and becomes a superstrong adult! A 2006 miniseries published by WildStorm FX retold this origin story. [Read the miniseries here at Comic Extra.] Addended 3/3/2017 MiniReview: After reading the above linked miniseries, we can't really recommend it. It feels more like an English gangster film with the Norse Gods context thrown in for adornment, and the art's only fair. Still, we're providing the info since it's an interesting note in NorsePlay comics history. # # # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately r