Mjolnir

Mjölnir is an item featured in the folklore of Norse mythology and is often depicted as a war hammer owned by Thor - the Viking Norse God of Thunder. Some stories relating to Mjolnir, refer to it as either a club or a battle axe. Fictionalized accounts of Mjolnir have appeared in many different media, but the most popularly known of which is the version used by the Marvel Comics superhero Thor Odinson. The Marvel Comics version of Mjolnir first appeared in Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 #83 in August, 1962. Almost every different interpretation of the Thor character shows him using a version of Mjolnir, usually with a distinctive appearance to distinguish it from Marvel's Mjolnir.