Thor was one of the handful of Marvel heroes who found themselves wiped from continuity as a result of the Onslaught crossover, wherein Professor X of the X-Men absorbed the bad parts of Magnetos personality, turned into a despotic psychic monster and decided the world would be much better off without the Avengers or Fantastic Four. It later transpired that Franklin Richards, pre-teen son of The Invisible Woman and Mr Fantastic, had actually used his god-like powers to spirit all of those heroes away to a pocket dimension where they could be redesigned by a load of poached talent from Image Comics who decided Captain America needed more abs and less tiny wings on his mask. Thor wound up acting basically the same in the relaunched Heroes Reborn Avengers, albeit with a stupid costume, and a great indignity was wrought on his book: it was renamed Journey Into Mystery again, and his stories jostled for space in what became an anthology title that also included Black Widow and Master Of Kung Fu. Never again!
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