Thor

THOR ("FAIRY TALES" FENTON)

Real Name: "Fairy Tales" Fenton

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Criminal, former professor of mettulurgy

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City, NY, 1940s era

First Appearance: Adventure Comics I #75 (June, 1942)

Powers: Thor used a Viking ship as transportation and wore a sheer steel bodysuit that was pliable as cloth. The suit granted him invulnerability and enhanced strength., He wielded a hammer he called Mjolnir that gave off electrical discharges strong enough to shatter steel.

History: (Adventure Comics I #75) - “Fairy Tales” Fenton was a professor of metallurgy who turned to a life of violent crime. He used his inventions, including sheer body armor and an electrical hammer to pose as Thor, Norse god of thunder. He recruited a gang to act as his Viking seconds and made a dramatic entrance at New York harbor in his Viking ship. He robbed a bank and laid waste to the NYPD. Sandman and Sandy responded to the scene, but Thor beat them both, badly injuring Sandy with a hammer shot to the head. Once aboard his ship he stripped from his protective gear, knowing the police would be on look out for Vikings, not common criminals. His timing was bad, as Sandman and the NYPD spotted them, and without Thor’s metal bodysuit he was easy prey for Sandman, who avenged his partner by sending Thor to the hospital.

Comments: Created by Jack Kirby

Thor’s appearance in Adventure Comics I #75 was reprinted in Adventure Comics I #499 & Forever People I #6.