DeFalco/Frenz Retrospective: Thor #447


 

Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciler: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: Eric teams up with the Absorbing Man in an attempt to scare Titania straight. 

Comments: Creel turns into the material Titania has stolen, gold. In Amazing Spider-Man #283, by DeFalco/Frenz, he turned into diamonds after feeling around for what she stole. 


 You think Eric could just tell Jarvis not to come in. 



Stone is usually friendly towards Thor, but doesn't want to seem to involve Spider-Man. 



Creel leaves Eric with the bill. Eric mentions that he can't appear in public without his mask and ends up having to pay the tab with his cape. When Eric becomes Thunderstrike, he ditches the mask and cape when he gets a new costume. Also, the manager of the diner doesn't cut Eric any slack with the bill when Thor was able to get out of paying the bill as demonstrated in Thor #129 and #143. 








Eric interrupts Captain America's work out and gets overwhelmed the stun balls, unlike Thor who neutralized them in Thor #427. 






The target of the robbery, the Golden Bull appeared in a previous Thor arc, Thor# 145-147. The Ringmaster tried to steal it from an unidentified museum. Here the museum it's currently at is the Guggenheim. The Golden Bull was identified to have appeared in Daredevil #129, but it doesn't look anything like the one that appeared in the Thor stories and since it was destroyed by Man-Bull, I can assume it was a replica. 








The pose of the Absorbing Man carrying the Golden Bull is like that of Thor in issue #146. 







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