In Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, pages 157-158 of the softcover edition, Stan Lee, co-creator of Marvel's Thor, wrote of his intentions. The passage is as follows:

"But how do you make someone stronger than the strongest human? It finally came to me; don't make him a human - make him a god. The notion intruiged me. I certainly had enough gods to choose from. There were Roman gods, Greek gods, and Norse gods, just to name a few.  I decided readers were already pretty familiar with the Greek and Roman gods. It might be fun to delve into the old Norse legends ... I picked Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, to headline the book."

There are a few other comments of that nature, but "don't make him a human - make him a god" is the key. That from the co-creator of Marvel's Thor, plus the idea that this same man wrote stories in which Thor was clearly Thor, indicates rather strongly that Stan Lee intended Thor to be that Thor. After all, those comments come from the same guy who wrote Thor as Thor.

Very nice Pat.

Thinking about getting the AIM character. Then maybe they can create a MODOK.

  " I wonder what it would take to cut the base down..."

Ryan , why dont you make a hole in your rack ??? You put Puck in the hole and , that's it !!