 A "larger than life" battle between Thor and the Serpent was depicted in "Thor" #379 - 380 (May - June 1987), with writer-artist Walter Simonson using a splash page to depict the creature's size, and then full pages to demonstrate the battle between the pair.Although killed, the Serpent was resurrected in "Thor" #486 - 488 (May - July 1995), and featured in "Avengers" (vol.3) #1 (Feb. 1998) before reappearing in "Thor" (vol.