Issue(s): Thor #309
Cover Date: Jul 81
Title: "Beware the Bombardiers!"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Rick Leonardi - Penciler
Chic Stone - Inker
Bob Budiansky - Assistant Editor
Jim Salicrup - Editor

Review/plot:
Just a dumb fill-in that fits nicely into Thor's "god of the people" phase in that he's defending tenement houses from a landlord looking to destroy them for the insurance money.

It's dumb because the people hired to destroy the buildings have equipment far more valuable than whatever they're getting paid by the landlord.

Particularly egregious is the use of adamantium, which repeatedly gets destroyed.

Accompanying Thor on this mission is a cat whose owner was killed in the attack on the initial building.

Also in this story is Blackbyrd, a character from Bill Mantlo's White Tiger stories. He was a private detective, but he's now back on the force.

I was amused by this exchange, where the guy in the tenement can't "dig" Thor's "lingo".

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Pushed back slightly in publication time to allow Avengers annual #10 to take place between Thor #310-311.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

It would've been cool if the cat came back.

Why do I suddenly imagine that cat as the steed for Frog-Thor?

Mantlo's plot for this story is very similar to "The Bulleteeers," one of the classic 1940s Superman shorts by Fleischer Studios.