Membership: Beta Ray Bill, Loki Laufeyson, Storm (Ororo Munroe), Thor (Jane Foster), Thor of Earth-8710 circa the 26^th Century A.D. (Dargo Ktor), Thor/Thunderstrike (Eric Masterson), Thor Odinson

Purpose: Gathered for specific missions, such as foiling Zarrko the Tomorrow Man, locating Ellene or defeating Toranos

Affiliations: Ellene, Warlord Kargul;

Enemies: Demonstaff (Hallan Gorko), Servitor, Toranos, Zarrko the Tomorrow Man;
    time-displaced counterparts of Cobra (Klaus Voorhees), Executioner (Skurge), Grey Gargoyle (Paul Duval), Loki Laufeyson, Mercurio the 4-D Man, Shatterfist, Tyrus the Terrible, Uroc;
    battled in a case of misunderstood purposes: Invaders (Bucky Barnes, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Human Torch/Jim Hammond, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Toro/Thomas Raymond).
    formerly Ellene,, Warlord Kargul;

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: (Alliance made) Thor I#439;
    (Thor Corps name used) Thor I#440 (December, 1991)

Powers/Abilities: Each of the members of the Thor Corps wielded the enchanted hammer Mjolnir or a similar weapon (such as Beta Ray Bill's Stormbreaker or Thunderstrike's mace), which served as striking weapons, allowed them to fly and to control the weather and/or project powerful energies in various forms. 

    They also each possessed the power of Thor on some level (superhuman strength and durability)

History:
(Thor I#439 (fb) - BTS) - Zarrko the Tomorrow Man sought to harness the energies of multiple versions of Mjolnir (the uru hammer wielded by Thor) to power his Radical Time Stabilizer, merging all divergent realities into a single timesteam of which he would be the master.

(Thor I#438 - BTS) - Zarrko sent his Servitor to 2591 A.D. of Earth-8710 to recruit Dargo Ktor, the Thor of that time period/reality, telling him that in the modern age of the true Thor, Mjolnir had been stolen by the criminal Eric Masterson. Zarrko further lied, telling Zarrko of a time virus that could allow Masterson to form a relationship with an alien, which would alter the timestream and prevent Dargo's timeline from coming about.

    Believing Zarrko, Dargo allowed him to transport him to the modern time period, where he observed the Thor Masterson battling the alien Stellaris, and he attacked Masterson with a lightning bolt. Dargo and Stellaris both charged Masterson.

(Thor I#439 - BTS) - After some back and forth, Stellaris lost interest in the battle between the two Thors and departed. Eventually the two Thor struck their hammers together at full force. While Zarrko's Radical Time Stabilizer absorbed enough energy to operate at peak efficiency, the energies of the collision caused Stormbreaker, the hammer of Beta Ray Bill to reverberate. Sensing that he was needed on Earth, Bill traveled there and convinced them that their possession of Mjolnir indicated that they were worthy as "Brothers of the Sacred Hammer."

(Thor I#439) - After Masterson had explained the current fate of Thor Odinson, the three heroes flew to confront Zarrko, who departed that time period in his Time Cube. Bill convinced Masterson that he was honor-bound to help Dargo locate Zarrko and return to his own, and an informal team was founded as they shouted, "Hammers High!"

(Thor I#440) - Bill convinced Dargo and Masterson to spin their hammers in perfect turne, bringing them into the misty limbo realm in proximity to Zarrko's Time Cube. After they broke in, however, Zarrko summoned a number of foes from throughout time to oppose them: Cobra, Demonstaff, Executioner, Grey Gargoyle, Mercurio the 4-D Man, Shatterfist, Tyrus the Terrible, Uroc. After the heroes defeated them, Zarrko sent them back to their own time and summoned Loki to face them.

(Thor I#441) - Loki assaulted the Thor Corp but also punished Zarrko for trying to order him about. As the Servitor attacked Dargo, Loki easily overpowered Masterson and Bill. After defeating the Servitor, Dargo used Zarrko's computer to observe Masterson's future and saw his imminent demise. Eventually, Masterson had Loki read his mind to see how Thor slew him in the relative future for Loki.

    As Loki demanded Zarrko show him the the exact moment Thor would destroy him so he could defend against it, Zarrko's Radical Time Stabilizer entered its critical phase, and he refused to aid him. Loki pushed Zarrko aside so he could check for himself, knocking him into the control panel, causing an accidental shift in the Stabilizer's polarity and beginning a chain reaction. The resultant explosion blew a hole in the Time Cube, and both Zarrko and this past incarnation of Loki were pulled out of it, caught in the backlash of a temporal cyclone and sucked into the timestream.

    Finding the Time Cube's controls to be similar to Skuttlebutt's, Bill sent Dargo back first, and he and Masterson were returned to their own times and places shortly thereafter, escaping just before the time cube broke apart.

(Thor Corps#1) - Seeking to recover his lost/estranged wife, Ellene Gorko, Demonstaff kidnapped Dargo's wife, Salla, to force his compliance. Not trusting Dargo alone to the task, Demonstaff additionally summoned Beta Ray Bill, who was in the midst of saving a settlement on his homeworld from a monstrous plant, and Eric Masterson, now Thunderstrike, who was in the act of saving his young son, Kevin, from an onrushing car.

    However, after Dargo had explained the need to locate Ellene as well as Demonstaff's threat, Warlord Kargul -- who dwelled within Elsewhen with Ellene -- instead transported the trio into the past of Earth-616 circa World War II and into a conflict with the Invaders (Bucky Barnes, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Human Torch/Jim Hammond, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Toro/Thomas Raymond).

(Thor Corps#2) - After some stereotypical conflict with the Invaders, Beta Ray Bill opened a portal intended to take them to Elsewhen, but after Masterson was knocked through the portal, he instead ended up in Earth-8410 circa 2020 A.D., briefly encountering that reality's Iron Man and Machine Man before being pulled into the void between dimensions by Bill.

    There they were confronted and attacked by Psilord (a divergent counterpart of Franklin Richards-616) before Bill successfully opened a portal to transport them to Elsewhen. The trio fought their way to Ellene's chambers and shattered the door. As Masterson and Bill engaged the guards, Dargo tried to rescue Ellene, but as she was neither a prisoner nor wished to be with reunited with Demonstaff, she blasted him away and then fled while her servants blasted the trio with mystical energies.

    As they tried to follow her, Ellene instead sent them each through a portal to a different reality and time period: Dargo arrived in Earth-928 circa 2099 A.D. where he encountered Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara); Beta Ray Bill arrived in Earth-691's 31st Century and encountered the Guardians of the Galaxy (Charlie-27, Major Victory/Vance Astro, Nikki, Starhawk/Aleta & Talon); and Masterson arrived in Earth-616's latter 19th Century's Old West amidst Kid Colt, the Rawhide Kid and the Two-Gun Kid.

(Thor Corps#3) - As Demonstaff weakened the barriers between realities and additional beings were transported across time, Bill, Dargo and Masterson all returned to the space between dimensions. At Bill's guidance, they united their hammers and took advantage the weakened barriers to summon Thor Odinson to join them against Demonstaff.

(Thor Corps#4) - The now four-member Thor Corps met with Warlord Kargul and Ellene in Elsewhen, offering to aid in thwarting Demonstaff, whose reality manipulations threatened to collapse all reality. They asked for  Demonstaff's current location. After Ellene related her version of the events that lead to the transformation of her former husband into Demonstaff and her arrival in Elsewhen, Demonstaff arrived and requested Dargo to come with him to where he held Salla prisoner. Desperate to save his wife, Dargo reverted to his mortal form, left his Mjolnir cane with Thor Odinson and allowed Demonstaff to transport him away.

    After Demonstaff toyed with Dargo and Salla with various offers and threats, Odinson used his Mjolnir to track Demonstaff to an interdimensional void, and he transported himself, Bill and Masterson there. Regaining his cane and returning to Thor form, Dargo joined his allies against Demonstaff, who summoned various monstrous creatures from a variety of dimensions to fight them. After Odinson cleared a path to Demonstaff, Bill shattered his dimensionizer staff, the source of his powers.

    However, while Demonstaff's creatures were sent back to their places of origin, the various dimensions continued to collapse upon themselves. To counteract this, Odinson led the rest of the Corps to place their mallets, call upon the enchanted forces within, collectively become one with their hammers and use the energies to bolster the sagging dimensional boundaries.

    While this was only a temporary measure, Ellene confronted Demonstaff, telling him that the dimensionizer had never functioned properly and that the reality-warping power was within his form. Ultimately, Demonstaff used all of his power to fully restore the interdimensional barriers.