Thor loves Jane, and Jane lusts after both Thor and his secret identity of doctor Donald Blake, who's basically Dr. House but blond and slightly more personable. So, what's stopping these two from turning the comic into 20 monthly pages of glorious, literally god-like lovemaking? Mainly Loki and his most devious superpower: dick-blocking.Â
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Yes, Loki is constantly telling on Thor to their dad, Odin, who is kind of old fashioned and doesn't believe in mixing the human and Asgardian races. In one 1960s tale, Loki even convinces Odin to send the most desirable goddess in Asgard to seduce Thor, just to prevent him from scoring with Jane. Thor barely notices that there's an insanely attractive lady throwing herself at him, but she still succeeds in making Jane jealous via a smooth seduction technique known as "pretending to have defective ankles."
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Another time, Loki takes advantage of Thor's love for Jane to goad him into throwing his hammer, which he then traps inside a force field. And, since "not holding his favorite phallic object for 60 seconds or more" is Thor's version of kryptonite, this means the god of thunder now trapped in his puny human form and no one can stop Loki from doing the most evil things imaginable. Luckily, the most evil things Loki could imagine in 1963 were "turning things into candy" and "disarming Soviet nukes."
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To the relief of diabetic communists everywhere, Thor manages to get his hammer back by simply standing behind a plastic dummy of himself and saying he's got his powers back. This causes Loki to lift the force field to check if the hammer is still there, at which point Thor snatches it away. Yes, even the god of trickery himself can be tricked by the powerful dark art known as "ventriloquism." OK, so the '60s were not Loki's brightest years -- we're getting the impression that candy wasn't the only substance he was abusing back then.Â