Journey into Mystery #88

[cyberghostface]

Loki is able to separate Thor from his hammer for sixty seconds and encase it in a force field which leaves his brother powerless as Donald Blake. Loki proceeds to cause havoc on Earth.

Comments

[donnblake]

Interesting choice, in '63, to have Loki's demonstrate how wily, dangerous, and uncontrollable he's becoming... by sabotaging a Soviet nuclear test.

[lego_joker]

Hey, he may be a callous, murderous Norse God of Chaos, but he's an American callous, murderous Norse God of Chaos!

[lordultimus]

"I am most pleased to see my favorite son again!"

Geez, Odin, no wonder Loki turned out the way he did.

[lego_joker]

It's hilarious, because these early stories tend to begin with everyone in Asgard treating Loki as Public Enemy Number One, but once Kirby became a regular artist (around the #102 mark or so), Loki became this Villain With Good(?) Publicity that even the Warriors Three were obligated to obey in Thor's absence.

[donnblake]

Hey, he's (officially, at least) a prince of the blood royal! If you start suggesting that people don't have obey royals just because they're evil murderous ice-cream obsessed dark magicians next they'll start wondering if royal blood is a good indicator of effective rulership at all!

[tripodeca113]

I hope those dogs are okay from eating that ice cream.

[scorntx]

Some villains restrict themselves to poisoning one dog at a time.
Not Loki.
He truly is the God of Evil!

[scorntx]

Even for a Silver Age comic, this is very Silver Age.

Foiled by a dummy, peanuts and a net.
Guessing that's yet another chapter Loki's going to leave out of the autobiography.
(still, better than the time his manipulations were foiled by him sitting on a haggis...)

Those are some pretty chill pigeons though. What have they seen that a man looming over them with a hammer does nothing to disturb them?

[lego_joker]

New York pigeons are just Like That, m'man. They haven't feared Man since the turn of the 20th century.