{"id":238,"date":"2005-01-27T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/01\/27\/thor-171-the-wrath-of-the-wrecker\/"},"modified":"2005-01-27T20:52:14","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T20:52:14","slug":"thor-171-the-wrath-of-the-wrecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/238","title":{"rendered":"Thor #171 [1969]"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the middle of the great run of THOR inked by Bill Everett. It’s a beautiful thing to see the texture that Everett brings to these pencils both in the 20-page story and the cover.<\/p>\n

In “The Wrath of the Wrecker”, the basic story this time around has Thor returning to Earth and his Don Blake identity, just in time to operate on a a civil rights leader who was shot (somewhere along the line Don Blake seems to have gone from a decent surgeon to the greatest surgeon in the world). In the middle of the operation, the Wrecker manages to escape custody and Blake has to leave the operation for a knock-down fight, returning just in time to finish the operation.<\/p>\n

\"Thor<\/a><\/p>\n

A bit of an oddly written issue, as Thor spends most of the fight lecturing the Wrecker on morality and responsibility, in between the punches and hammer blows.<\/p>\n

But the art is a masterpiece of destructive action. There’s one really good scene where the Wrecker sends his crowbar right through a truck, sending the engine flying out the front. Then when he and Thor get to fighting in the city, it’s as powerful as Kirby’s art ever looked. It’s a shame most of this run of THOR has never been reprinted, and probably won’t be for a few more years at least.<\/p>\n

Published 1969<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the middle of the great run of THOR inked by Bill Everett. It’s a beautiful thing to see the texture that Everett brings to these pencils both in the 20-page story and the cover. In “The Wrath of the Wrecker”, the basic story this time around has Thor returning to Earth and his Don […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","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\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}