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8 Things Marvel Got Wrong About Thor and Norse Mythology [View all]
t may shock you to learn that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did not do an accurate job bringing the Norse god Thor and his mythology into the Marvel comics universe back in 1962. If they had, they would have been arrested, because Norse myths are full of murder, mayhem and weird sex, most of which still wouldn’t be publishable nowadays. Here are eight major ways Thor and his world differ between the comics and the myths.
http://io9.com/8-things-marvel-got-wrong-about-thor-and-norse-mytholog-1458989921
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