{"id":1127,"date":"2007-01-14T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1127"},"modified":"2007-01-14T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T01:22:13","slug":"thor-172-1970-the-immortal-and-the-mind-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1127","title":{"rendered":"Thor #172 [1970] &#8211; The Immortal and the Mind-Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel was in the middle of Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;single issue stories&#8221; experiment, which wasn&#8217;t really playing to the strength of the whole Marvel way of doing things.  Thor returns as Don Blake to his office, where he&#8217;s met by Jim North, Jane Foster&#8217;s new boss, who brings news that Jane has been kidnapped by Kronin Krask, who wants North to perform a forbidden operation for him.  North has come to see if Don Blake can contact Thor to help.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Odin takes a look around at where everyone is, using his Enchanti-Scan.  The odd mix of mythical and high-tech in Asgard always confuses me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1126\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/01\/Thor1721970.jpg\" alt=\"Thor1721970.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Krask wants North to perform a mind-transplant, and the body he wants for his mind is Thor, who he knew North would contact.  Thor is captured and the mind-exchange is attempted, which leads to a battle of the embodied egos of Thor and Krask, which Thor wins, killing Krask in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Not the greatest story (although with a few ideas that came together a bit better in some Fourth World stories).  Bill Everett inks the 20-page story and cover, and that looks really nice.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel was in the middle of Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;single issue stories&#8221; experiment, which wasn&#8217;t really playing to the strength of the whole Marvel way of doing things. Thor returns as Don Blake to his office, where he&#8217;s met by Jim North, Jane Foster&#8217;s new boss, who brings news that Jane has been kidnapped by Kronin Krask, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}