Thor No. 1

Thor (2018) #1, part of Marvel's "Fresh Start" relaunch, written by Jason Aaron with lead art by Mike del Mundo, published June 13, 2018. After the "Death of the Mighty Thor" storyline in The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster's story reaches a pause, and Odin's son Thor reclaims the name and identity of Thor—but his situation is very different from before: Mjolnir is destroyed, the left arm he lost has been replaced with a golden prosthetic, and after the destruction of Asgard, countless Asgardian artifacts are scattered across Earth. To recover these dangerous artifacts and to prove himself worthy again, Thor must face some less flattering truths—among them the practical question of who is going to pay for forging several hundred new hammers. In this issue Thor fights with multiple new dwarven-forged hammers, taking on Namor, then Loki, and finally using all his hammers against the supposedly "unstoppable" Gladiator (the Juggernaut), whose performance is put to the test in this hard fight. The issue also includes the "King Thor" backup: a far-future tale drawn by Christian Ward, in which an aged future Thor reunites with an old friend who has undergone a startling change, setting up the longer arc to come. The issue contains two stories, "God of Thunder Reborn" and "The Grace of Thor," runs about 43 pages, and is rated T+.