In Mexico City, Thor foils a bank
robbery yet ponders why he is pausing in his pursuit of cosmic
matters to act like a mere “superhero.” He gathers storm clouds
over the city and cries out to Odin who asks impatiently whether Thor
is giving up his interest in Midgard to return to Asgard. Thor says
no and wants to know why he is so drawn to Earth and who is his
mother. Odin won't tell him. Thor summarizes the false Ragnarok
(issues #274-278) in which Odin tried to trick the prophecies into
thinking they had been fulfilled and asks why. Odin won't tell him.
Lastly, Thor asks what Odin knows of the Celestials (which Thor
learned of in THOR ANNUAL #7). Odin starts to answer, thinks better
of it and vanishes....
Thor flies to the Andes mountains in
Peru, the site of his meeting with the Celestials a thousand years
earlier; he spies a huge silver dome and tries to crash through but
is repelled. On his way he passed a jetliner which, following in his
wake, discovers a golden giant: the Celestial Gammenon whose task is
to gather living things for analysis. Gammenon seizes the plane,
tearing off the wings and when Thor tries to interfere, it blasts him
away and returns with its prize into the giant dome....