Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Villain of the Week- Marvel's Loki

 From Wiki-  A version of Loki made his first Marvel Comics appearance in Timely Comics' publication Venus #6 (August 1949),[7] where Loki is depicted as a member of the Olympian gods. Planning to spread hate, he convinces Jupiter to let him travel to the realm of Earth, using Venus already being allowed onto it as his justification. Venus pledges herself to Loki's service to stop his plans, with Jupiter seeing her unselfish act and freeing her from the pledge, with Loki subsequently being sent back to the Underworld. The modern-age Loki made his first official Marvel appearance in Journey into Mystery #85 (Oct. 1962), where Loki is reintroduced as Thor's sworn enemy. The modern age Loki was introduced by brothers and co-writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and was redesigned by Jack Kirby.

As one of Thor's arch-nemeses, Loki has frequently made appearances in Thor-related titles like Journey into Mystery and Thor, as well as other Marvel Universe titles such as The Avengers and X-Men, and brief appearances in the Spider-Man and The Defenders comic series. now back to me: 

This was the version of Loki I was most familiar with, since he was "the evil one" and made a handy villain for a lot of the Marvel (comic book) universe heroes.   He didn't do his face turn until Tom Hiddleston made him too wonderful to hate.  Every so often in the comic books he would do something heroic, though it was rare.

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