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Mikael Bergkvist
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Posted: 29 August 2025 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Is Thor the character with the longest origin story? It didn’t ’conclude’ until Thor 158/159. 
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I have read Thor #120-159, and never got the feeling an origins story was ongoing the whole time.  Do you mean we just incrementally kept finding out additional things about Asgard?

Perhaps not the longest, but I was struck when I read the origin of the Juggernaut in X-Men #12-13.  Juggernaut is approaching the mansion, and the Professor activates all the defences of the grounds, but he fears it will not be enough.  He gathers the X-Men to tell them the origin of his evil brother…AND THEN WE ARE OUT OF PAGES, COME BACK NEXT ISSUE.
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This may be a stretch, but maybe Superman not finding out that we was an alien for 10 years publication time?
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I’d say Superman easily walks—er, flies away with this one. Because of DC constantly tinkering with and retrofitting his backstory, everybody’s favorite Man of Steel has had basically an eighty seven year “origin”.
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I’d put Wolverine in this category as well.

Not that I felt we needed a full blown origin as little snippets of dialogue and a minor flashback worked for me. The mystery was far better than peeling the whole onion.
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Wolverine has only been around since the Seventies. Superman beats him by decades!
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