Item Biography
"The Death and Life of Skurge the Executioner"
A curious thing is happening in Asgard. Balder finds that his thoughts dwell on a lost comarade, Skurge, who was... what? His memory is somehow damaged on that fact. Balder checks with Thor, then Loki, and all find the same. It is clear that an enchantment has fallen on them. The trail leads them across many realms, and reality twists and warps until they come to the World Tree, Yggdrasil, the nexus of the nine worlds. There they find the Enchantress, in her grief ready to attempt to resurrect the Executioner... at the cost of all existence.
"Like a Bat Out of Hel!" reprints Thor (Vol 1) #362.
The story which served as the backdrop for the above story, when the Executioner fought a valiant battle for valor at the gates of Hel and paid with his life.