Jane Foster IS Thor...I mean Thordis...in WHAT IF? "...Jane Foster Had Found the Hammer of Thor?" Conclusion

When Last We Left Thordis, the Goddess of Thunder...

...well, I'll let The Watcher bring the reader up to speed...

Writer Don Glut did a pretty good Stan Lee-style pastiche while penciler Rick Hoberg and inker Dave Hunt gave the story a Silver Age "look".
For the record, What If? later returned to the Thor/Don Blake & Jane Foster relationship with a story continuing from this point...

...resulting in a much more tragic tale...

...with multiple major character deaths!
But, that's a story for another time!

Jane Foster IS Thor...I mean Thordis...in WHAT IF? "...Jane Foster Had Found the Hammer of Thor?" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...
...in an alternate universe, Jane Foster: RN, accompanied Dr Don Blake on his Scandinavian vacation.

When the Stone Men from Saturn (who weren't really from Saturn in any universe, BTW) arrived, she, not he, was the one to find Mjolnir, Thor's hammer!
After driving the aliens off, the heroine now known as Thordis performed the same deeds as the Thor of our universe, including encountering Thor's vengeful half-brother Loki...

To Be Concluded...
...with the most astonishing ending of all time...
TOMORROW!
Misseth it not, True Believer!

As you can see, alternate history is now diverging extensively from the Marvel Universe as Odin helps reintroduce Sif (whom Thor last met when she was a child) to the Thunder God (still trapped in Don Blake's mortal form) before Jane Foster had her memory wiped of Don Blake/Thor, resulting in a romantic triangle that didn't previously exist!
You can read how all that happened HERE!

Jane Foster IS Thor...I mean Thordis...in WHAT IF? "...Jane Foster Had Found the Hammer of Thor?" Part 1

Before Jane Foster became Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder...
...she had wielded Thor's hammer, Mjolnir in the comics, the first time in what is considered an "imaginary story" (ie: a tale not in official continuity).
But let The Watcher explain...

Verily, the saga continues...
TOMORROW!
Note: In the Silver and Bronze Ages, DC had no problem using the multiverse/parallel world concept regularly, beginning with "Flash of Two Worlds" Flash #123, creating multiple Earths where variations (including the Golden Age versions of characters) lived!

Marvel, OTOH, shied away from the concept like poison, believing everything from the Golden Age Timely days to the 1950s Atlas era to the 1960s Silver and 1970s Bronze Ages could fit in a single universe, with any variations...

...like this being mere temporary glitches in the fabric of the Marvel Universe!
Of course, all that's changed since😱...

Who WAS Nubia? Nubia in the Bronze Age and...On TV???

After her three-issue premiere in DC's Wonder Woman 204-206 (1973)...

...which we covered HERE, HERE, and HERE, Nubia appeared only twice more in the Bronze Age...DC's Supergirl #9 (1973-74)...

...where she served as a plot device to show Supergirl as worthy to become an Amazon!

Here's her final appearance in DC's Super Friends #25 (1979)...

...where she fought a mind-controlled Wonder Woman to a stalemate until the Amazon was released from mental manipulation!

Note: though not part of pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Super Friends did follow the continuity established in the TV series, potentially-setting Nubia up for an animated appearance (which never happened)!

So, why was Nubia introduced...then ignored?

After the Wonder Woman TV series debuted, Mego launched a line of 12" action figures...

...including Nubia, in her costume from Wonder Woman #204-206!

Note the text on the box:

"It's Wonder Woman's Super-Foe!

That heartless arch-mistress of evil...NUBIA!

Direct from her reign of TV terror!

Were they going to incorporate Nubia into the TV series...which never touched upon how Diana was "born"...as an ongoing enemy?

There are rumors that singer/actress Jayne Kennedy, who had experience in genre/action roles...

...had been offered the role.

But the network (unknown if it was ABC, which handled the first, WWII-era season, or CBS, which ran the updated-to-present day later seasons) balked at having an ongoing Black villainess!

Though Nubia never appeared, Kennedy did play Carolyn Hamilton, an ex-policewoman and former associate of Steve Trevor Jr, in the second season episode "Knockout"!

Whether she was brainwashed or willingly-joined (it's never made clear), Carolyn is sent by a terrorist organization to perform an assassination, which Wonder Woman prevents!

The character was never seen again...until the recent DC Wonder Woman '77 comic, which continues plotlines and continuity from the TV series!

In DC/Dynamite's Wonder Woman '77 Meets the Bionic Woman mini-series, Diana brings Jamie Sommers to Paradise Island, where she meets...

....the now-reformed Carolyn has adopted the name of "Nubia", along with the doll's comic book-based armor and white streak in her hair!

Note: apparently living on Paradise Island stops the aging process, since WWII villainess Fausta (from the first season episode "Fausta: the Nazi Wonder Woman") hasn't aged since arriving!
There are several different incarnations of Nubia presently published by DC, none of which have any relation to either the pre-Crisis or 1970s Lynda Carter TV series versions we've shown you.

If there's reader interest, we'll cover those women in future posts!

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