Jack Kirby is getting ready to leave Thor for good, so he sits this one out.
Abomination and The Stranger are the enemies here, in a story that didn’t make any sense to me at all. But then, I don’t really get what Stranger’s deal is anyway. Like, what’s he about? Last time we saw him, he came to destroy Earth-but now he appears to be some kind of policeman locking up cosmic crooks. And somehow Abomination qualifies, but much bigger and more important villains don’t. Weird.
At least we get to see Thor hit Abomination a few times.
Anyway, it ends with Thor going back in time to fix his own mistakes in the issue-a power set that basically gives him infinite power, which explains why it’s almost never used and most Thor writers pretend it doesn’t even exist.
Forgotten powers: Yeah, that blows. “It is FORBIDDEN for you to interfere in the course of human history!” Let’s all of us just forget about that power. “The Stranger’s ‘Deal'”- “………I don’t really get what ( the ) Stranger’s ‘deal’ is, anyway………like, what’s he about-??” See the conclusion of ‘Fantastic Four’#116, and all will be made clear. Very soon following the events of this issue, the Stranger will fulfill his destiny, at the conclusion of that 1971 ‘FF’ Quadrology. “D+”-???!!! I will agree that Thor’s power to “rewrite history” SUCKS, but, nevertheless, this all-in-one had quite a bit going for it, not the very least being, Jumbo John Buscema’s debut on his legendary run on ‘The Mighty Thor’! I would award this issue a solid “B”, only the annoying “magic time-rewriting” element preventing it from achieving a total “A”! For ASGARD!!!!