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It could be that Stan was slowly changing his mind about who and what Thor really was. His first appearance seems to say out right that Don Blake was a doctor with a bum leg who stumbled upon a walking stick that gave him "the power of Thor."Didn't take long, I guess, before it turns out Blake was Thor all along, just "humbled" by Odin through a change into the form of Don Blake--which the walking stick temporarily undid. And then he was just Thor all the time. •• It wasn't so much about Stan changing his mind, as it was about him breaking one of his own rules -- albeit a rule he probably hadn't thought of at that point. (This might have been what created the rule, after the fact!) "Never give the fans what they think they want," the Man hath wisely said, but Marvel was deluged by demands from anal retentive fans (yes, they existed even back then) who wanted to know where the "real Thor" had been all the time that stick was lying in that cave. Stan eventually answered the question. And, for a lot of us, not satisfactorily, as it severely damaged Don Blake. Oh, for a time machine, and a chance to whisper in Stan's ear! "No, see, Ragnarok was about to happen, and Thor sacrificed himself to save Asgard, and in order that his son not perish entirely, Odin transferred Thor's power into the hammer, and then transformed the hammer into a stick, casting upon it the enchantment that the right 'worthy' man would be able to summon that power." The singularly stupid thing, of course, is that even after the "true" story of who and what Don Blake was had been revealed, later writers insisted on invoking the "if he be worthy" enchantment, something which should have been forgotten (along with so much early Marvel lore) once we knew Blake had "always" been Thor.
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