Every Character Who Lifted Thor's Hammer Mjolnir

17. Donald Blake

What better place to begin than at the beginning?

The first person to ever use the hammer of Thor in the comics was a doctor named Donald Blake. Blake was a disabled doctor who suddenly found himself, like many folks in the Marvel universe tend to, at the mercy of an invading force of aliens. He hid himself away in a cave, where he found the hammer of Thor. The hammer took the form of his walking stick when he was Blake, and changed into the hammer when Donald cracked the stick against a solid surface.

Of course, as you can imagine, this did not last long past Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's era. Specifically, it was the great Walt Simonson who revealed that the identity of Donald Blake was a fake, and that he had been Thor the entire time.

Like the 2011 movie, Odin cast him out for being vain, cruel, and far too blood hungry, removing his god powers and overwriting his personality with that of Dr. Blake.