Valhalla (comic)
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Valhalla is a comic book series published by Interpresse, written by Hans Rancke-Madsen, and illustrated by Peter Madsen.
In 1977 Interpresse, a Danish publishing house, commissioned a noted Danish illustrator, Peter Madsen (cartoonist), to draw the first album in a series of adventures of the Norse gods, based on the Elder Eddas, in collaboration with Hans Rancke-Madsen, a writer. Thor would very much be the hero of this series. along with Odin and with Loki who is presented as his half brother.
The accent was on humor but the characters and much of the plot followed closely the Elder Eddas. The albums were works of art and each took a year or more to produce, the first one coming out in 1979, the second in 1982, and the seventh only in 1992. They were very much in the tradition of finely drawn and well plotted franco-belgian graphic novels like the adventures of Tintin or of Asterix.
Translations were made into Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic, so somebody who knows these languages or anyone a bit familiar with a scandinavian language (or the Old Norse language) and with a good knowledge of Norse Mythology can enjoy this droll rendition of the adventures of Thor and Loki.