> Why? Most people will never have even heard of, much less care, about Loki or Norse mythology in any context until Marvel :-o For one datapoint, when I grew

> Why? Most people will never have even heard of, much less care, about Loki or Norse mythology in any context until Marvel :-o For one datapoint, when I grew up in England, you'd learn about the Greek Myths and the Norse Myths in school. I was an adult before I ever heard of the Marvel comics.