Featuring: Tales of Asgard
Release: June 30, 1966
Cover: September 1966
12 cents
Script writing: Stan Lee
Picture drawing: Jack Kirby
Panel inking: Vince Colletta
Word lettering: Sam Rosen
Armor polishing: Irving Forbush
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Well do I know that ominous drumbeat! It summons the Great Black Stallion of Doom! It means the death of a mighty warrior is near at hand!
The battle is won. Harokin defeated and Muspelheim liberated.
Thor and this three warrior friends take a bath.
The drumming is an ominous portent and perhaps a summoning. The Black Stallion comes. Death is at hand.
Most warriors do not know for whom the Stallion has come and fear it is for them.
But Harokin knows.
Harokin was Thor’s enemy but still Thor treats him with honor, and mourns when he realizes his time has come.
This is a good issue, a quiet aftermath to battle, a somber meditation on death.
Harokin doesn’t die in the comic. But he knows he is about to. The Stallion has come to take him away. When last we see Harokin, he can still hold his drink. As of the final panel, the Stallion continues to approach.
The saga is not yet done. Come back next issue for the death of Harokin. This issue was about acceptance that death is coming.
I do not see a letters page for this issue, though the GCD claims there is one.
Rating: ★★★½, 61/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Thor Epic Collection vol. 3: The Wrath of Odin.
Characters:
- Volstagg
- Hogun
- Fandral
- Thor
- Harokin
Story notes:
- Thor and friends remain in conquered Muspelheim.
- Volstagg the Vainglorious; Hogun the Grim; Fandral the Dashing.
- Harokin dying of old wounds from previous battles, not from Thor.
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