Thor #346

The being called Kurse was originally Algrim the Strong, one of the Dark Elves of the extra dimensional realm of Svartalfheim who served the Dark Elves' ruler, Malekith the Accursed. Malekith captured Lorelei, an Asgardian woman who had used a magical potion to make the Asgardian thunder god Thor fall deeply in love with her


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To rescue Lorelei, Thor went to he English Cotswolds, where stood the faerie castle that serves as a nexus between Earth and the other dimensional faerie realm of Svartalfheim. Thor broke through into the world of faerie and seeing Lorelei menaced by Malekith, became oblivious to everything else. Hence, he was easily ambushed by the superhumanly strong Algrim, who stood in shadow wearing ebony armor. Malekith had told Algrim he had chosen him to defeat Thor. But while Thor and Algrim fought each other, Malekith ordered that a pitfall be opened beneath their feet.

Thor #348

Thor and Algrim fell down a great chasm toward a lake of molten lava. Thor summoned his magic hammer Mjolnir, which carried him to safety, but Algrim plunged into the magma.

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The magma's tremendous heat left Algrim on the brink of death. He would have been killed outright except that his enchanted armor protected him from the magma's full effects, and that his desire for vengeance for Thor gave him the will to live. In fact, the shock of the intense pain the magma caused him rendered Algrim amnesiac; not remembering the real reason why he fell into the lava, he knew only that Thor was somehow to blame.

Algrim's hatred of Thor was sensed by the incredibly powerful Beyonder who had come to Earth to investigate the nature of desire. Intrigued, the Beyonder decided, as an experiment, to restore Algrim to health, give him vastly greater strength and remodel his armor, and then see what Algrim would do. Somehow sensing that he would find Thor in New York City, Algrim, now transformed into the being called Kurse, passed from Svartalfheim to Earth and began walking across the ocean bottom to get to New York.

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Beyonder Checks on kurse and finds he is still walking along the bottom of the ocean on his journey to kill Thor mentions it will take a week for him to get there.

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Kurse arrives in New york and mistakes Beta Ray Bill for Thor and attack hims.

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Bill escaped death at the hands of Kurse by reverting to his humanoid form he no longer resembles Thor so Kurse no longer has any interest in him.

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The Beyonder Remade Algrim into Kurse he no longer has a body he exist in a living mutating armor with one purpose to kill Thor.

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Kurse wreaks havoc in Manhattan as he searched for Thor.He is confronted by the Power Pack who are no match for Kurse but do succeed in Temporarily stopping him after they find out he is Vulnerable to Iron and bury him alive by causing the collapse of a building under construction.

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Not even being buried alive under a mountain of iron will keep Kurse form his vengeance he digs himself out the same day.

Power pack finds a injured Beta Ray Bill and discover that Kurse was the cause of his injuries.Beta Ray Bill injuries are so severe that he can not even stand.Power Pack informs Bill they have buried Kurse alive and he is dead bill does not believe that Kurse is dead and wonders if even if both Thor and himself together would be able to stand against him.

Kurse finally finds Thor and the two engage in a battle Kurse is clearly much stronger Thor resorts to putting on his belt of strength which DOUBLES his strength to even his fight kurse.

The Beyonder further increases his strength he is now much stronger than Thor even with Thor's strength being doubled by his belt.As Kurse is about to finish Thor Beta Ray and the Power pack arrive Energizer fires off a blast at Kurse and Thor is able to maneuver him into its path

Thor used his hammer to project intensive heat at Kurse. The heat, reminding Kurse of the lava pit, reawakened his memories of how he came to fall into it. AT last Kurse realized that it was not Thor but Malekith who was responsible and his hatred therefore shifted from Thor to Malekith

On Thor's instructions, Energizer, a member of Power Pack, absorbed energy from both Thor's and Beta Ray Bill's enchanted hammers and then fired a tremendously powerful ball of energy at Kurse.Even that is only able to knock Kurse unconscious but drains both hammers of all their energies.

Thor asked the Beyonder to send kurse to hel where he may find the one who betrayed him Malekith.

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Kurse is now in Hel and has already destroyed half of Hela's kingdom looking for Malekith.He seems beyond the power of her touch and she wants him out she commands her warriors to drive him toward asgard and let the living know fear.

Kurse arrives in asgard as balder is about to be crowned wades through every asgardian warrior in his way and breaks balders neck he turns out to be Malekith in disguise.

Kurse kills Malekith and then, his mission of vengeance finally fulfilled, he became peaceful and submissive.

Thor tells Heimdall that no prison in asgard would be able to hold kurse.