What about the 5 worse to hold the hammer?

You missed Storm!

In concept Superman would be a good pick, but that AWFUL Busiek dialogue really kills it for me. I really can’t be the only one that thinks the dialogue in that panel is just godawful, can I? Totally reminded me why I could never get into his Avengers.

I dunno — I will confess I am reading it out of context, only just recently having come to comics, but I find the Wonder Woman panel more compelling than the Superman one. True, the Wonder Woman panel has a bit much “exposition disguised as dialogue” (this seems to be a common flaw in comics, let alone other narrative fiction), but the Superman panel has a bit too much of “Harry-Met-Sallyesque” orgasmic subtext to it for my liking…

Just my opinion.

I enjoyed Defalco’s run on Thor with Eric Masterson as “Thor’s Buddy” and later, as “Thor’s substitute”. It was pretty clear that Defalco was trying to get Thor back to the Kirby version without just retconning away all of the stuff that had happened in the interim. I usually hate that kind of “back-to-the-past” revisions on a character, but the Thor stuff was different enough that it worked okay (not great, admittedly, but Defalco was not the worst person to ever write Thor).

It worked much better than his utterly terrible run on Fantastic Four – where he seemed to be trying to redo all of John Byrne’s plots, only different! Of course, he wasn’t the worst person to ever write Fantastic Four either, but he comes a lot closer than his Thor run did.

I rather self-servedly suggest it’s really, really cool when robots pick up Thor’s hammer.

DeFalco was resonsible for Alicia Masters turning out to be a Skrull since Secret Wars, yes? I really disliked that plot twist, enough that I stopped reading the book. Walt Simonson’s run on the book, right before his, was genius, though, especially the Reed-vs-Doom-through-the-Time-Travel-Agency story from #350 through #354.

Wait, this was a Thor entry… sorry!

(I was just kidding about Storm, by the way. If I remember correctly, Loki gives her a fake Mjolnir, or something like that. This was in the Asgardian Wars storyline, with a cool homage to Thor’s first cover -Storm in his place – for the cover of Uncanny X-Men Annual #9).

Christopher Priest got it into Deadpool’s hands during his run. I think he had a winged helmet, too. Absolutely the weirdest, coolest thing I’ve seen.

I believe that was a fake Mjolnir, though.

Aw, and I was hoping for Old Rick Jones from Captain Marvel #27-30….

See, it’s killing me, because I don’t know if Eric Masterson or Beta Ray Bill should be #1. I’m surely the biggest Thorophile here, and Eric’s one of my favorite Marvel characters ever, but hey, Bill has a horse’s skull for a face!!!

But yeah, DeFalco and Frenz’s Thor run does not get the amount of respect it should. Yes, they were following Simonson, but they did a damn good job and evoked a modern Lee/Kirby feel… sure, some of the dialogue is just terrible, but that’s okay. They’re fun comics.

And Dargo Ktor *is* cool, darn it.

When Captain America grabbed the hammer, Thor was being held by a bunch of lackeys of Seth, The Serpent God of Death, and being blasted with some really powerful ray buy Grog, the God Crusher. So Cap figured he’d better get Thor his damn hammer.

I’d go for Bill for #1, but only because Thor-Frog was actually Thor and not a different character.

And yeah, much as I liked JLA/Avengers, that dialogue up there is awful. We do get a great bit later as thickie Superman tries to pick the hammer up again but can’t, and Thor explains that it was just a “loan”.

What? No Deadpool? Shame on you.

Deadpool never had Mjolnir!

He only had a fake.

He at least deserves an honorable mention, though. And a picture.

How about Top 5 People to *fail* to lift the hammer? Someone who tried but couldn’t budge it.

Can’t disagree with the order, though a cool moment with Wonder Woman and Mjolnir DID occur in issue #4 of Marvel/DC, when Diana casually tosses the hammer to Thor.

The look on Thor’s face, a stunned silence that expresses the thought, “that REALLY shouldn’t have happened,” is priceless.

Is Wonder Woman the only woman to lift Mjolnir?

Oh, I wish I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
That is what I’d truly like to be
Cause if I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
Stunning Sif would be in love with me.

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I’d forgotten all about Beta Ray Bill. Yeah he desreves 1st–I originally was going with Cap– i remember that issue with Thor when he was “The Captain”
But Beta Ray Bill was better–and with very cool art by Walt Simonson.

Oh, I wish I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
That is what I’d truly like to be
Cause if I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
Stunning Sif would be in love with me.

Well done!!

Thunder Strike ruled!

Single Dad as superhero – that’s a great concept.

The proper name for Bill’s hammer is STORMBREAKER. A minor error, most likely a typo on your part.

I actually earned a NO-PRIZE in Thor 408 for trivia concerning who had and hadn’t lifted Thor’s hammer.

In Thor 400, there was a full page spread showing everyone who had lifted Mjolnir. In the 404 letters page some readers took the editors to task for forgetting certain people. In 408, my letter was printed explaining why the other people didn’t warrent mention.

I can’t remember the details now, but it was certainly a cool moment for me as a child. I think it was my only printed letter in any comic book.

Theno

omg im like orgasming at thir hes hotttttttt

yeah lily..

i wanna fuck wonderwoan in that pic of her
sexy muchhh?

Oh, I wish I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
That is what I’d truly like to be
Cause if I were a Non-Thor Mjolnir Wielder
Stunning Sif would be in love with me and we couls have sex

Has stormed ever held Thor’s hammer?

I believe it was a replica, not the actual hammer.

Superman should be number 1.
But eric masterson numer 3??? LOL

“I believe it was a replica, not the actual hammer.”

It was – Loki forged it for her himself.

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“The proper name for Bill’s hammer is STORMBREAKER. A minor error, most likely a typo on your part.”

Indeed. It’s not an uncommon mistake, though, since Stormbringer is the name of Elric of Melniboné, so it probably sounds like a name people know they’ve heard before.

To bring things around full circle, though, the new hammer that Storm wields in the aforementioned X-Men/New Mutants Asgardian storyline was explicitly named Stormbringer in the What If…? issue based on the premise:

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/earthxmenstayedasgard.htm

Gah, that should say “Stormbringer is the name of Elric of Melniboné’s sword”. Accursed lack of edit button! ~shakes fist~

hey what about frog thor that one is te coolest

You forgot Rogue from xmen!!!!!!!!!!!!

what about when hulk picked it up? does that count?

I think I am torn between Superman and Captain America being the #1 non-Thor Mjolnir wielder. The image of Superman holding Mjolnir and Cap’s shield on the cover is just amazing and pulse-pounding. On the other hand, I was stoked when The Captain (Captain America) saw Thor being piled upon and overrun and without giving it much thought, grabbed Mjolnir and tossed it to Thor. Thor used it to dispatch the Hyrdra swarm, and then realized later that meant that Cap had hefted Mjolnir. That was a very strong statement about Cap and probably one of my favorite comic book issues.

As silly as the writing in the DC vs. Marvel series was, I did like that Wonder Woman picked up the hammer in the midst of a monologue about what a subjective standard “worthiness” is. I love Diana, but sometimes the ol’ wisdom of Athena runs away with her.

All of them sucked except for beta ray bill. And superman and wonder woman were the suckiest

You suck