Hey, that one stole Thor's hat!

Over time, I thought I had put together most of the issues of Thor just prior to when Walt Simonson reinvigorated the book with Thor #337. But I didn't recognize today's book, since I would've remembered a Bill Sienkiewicz cover! From 1983, Thor #332, "Blood of a Goddess!" Written by Alan Zelenetz, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Vince Colletta.

As Dr. Donald Blake, Thor has returned to New York City, to get ambushed with questions about Jane Foster's murder! The cops didn't have a body, or even much motive besides jealousy; but Blake may have been one of the last to see her; and the story of what actually happened to her is pretty impenetrable for the reader, so it probably wouldn't go over great with the cops, either. After Jane failed her trial against the Unknown, she had been returned to earth and set up with Blake-lookalike Dr. Kincaid, who's understandably curious what happened to his fiancé, but Thor doesn't think he can say anything without torpedoing his secret identity.

Blake's questioning makes headlines...somehow, possibly because this story was before the constant hellstorm of today's news churn. Sif sees the papers and rushes to join her beloved, while Thor is giving word to try and find the Runestaff of Kamo Tharnn, which had been used to fuse Jane and Sif together, or whatever it did. Meanwhile: Dracula! Flying by, he notices Thor and Sif (and seems to notice Sif more than the preoccupied Thor does...) then proceeds to turn three hapless teens into vampires. Dr. Blake gives a second opinion on their bodies in the morgue, then offers the lead detective assistance as Thor, so he's there the next night when another body rises as a vampire. Thor makes short work of that one, then has to fly to the cemetery figuring the teens would turn as well. Also a short fight, but at Sif's place, a half-asleep Sif hears a tapping at the window, and dreamingly thinks it's Thor...when it's actually Dracula!

The Dracula story would only run one more issue, then the Jane Foster plotline would be wrapped up--for some time--in #334-335. I feel like I have most of those, but it probably wouldn't stop me from buying them out of the quarterbin again.