Mark offered me Thor, and we had talked about it a bit before. I had a Thor story I’d come up with in college, originally. I hadn’t worked out a lot of the details. My idea was to do a story that would begin in an issue of Thor and, in the same month, run through all of the other Marvel Comics (there were only ten other titles then) and each would be a chapter of the story, and a month later the annual would be the conclusion of the story. When the book was coming up and Mark asked if I wanted to do Thor, he gave me carte blanche on it. He gave me a sheet of paper with seven or eight ideas of what to do with Thor. He said ‘I don’t care if you do these or not, but this is just to show you that I’m serious about doing things different.’ It included killing the character and having a new guy become Thor. The book wasn’t selling well. It was a great position to be in because, had it gone down the tubes, I’d still have a lot of room to play. I think that Frank also had a lot of room on Daredevil.
— NYC Graphic Novelists: Walter Simonson and How He Became the Man Who Fell Into Comics
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