Valhalla is a Danish comic series, which offers a comedic view of the gods of Norse mythology.

During 1976 and 1977, Henning Kure and Arne Stenby at Interpresse, a Danish publishing house, were planning to create a comic series based on the world of the Vikings.

They offered the place of illustrating the comic to the young cartoonist Peter Madsen, who accepted, and also enlisted Hans Rancke-Madsen.

The team set out to draw the first album (similar format as Tintin and Asterix) in a series of the adventures of the Norse gods, based on the Elder Eddas.

Valhalla would become the major breakthrough for illustrator Peter Madsen, who has developed greatly during his work on the series.

By far the most high-profile member of the creative team, the series is often referred to as "Peter Madsen's Valhalla".

Hans Rancke-Madsen has been the major writer of the series, together with Peter and other co-writers Per Vadmand and Henning Kure.

Thor and Loki visit Midgard, the world of humans, and take on farmer's children Þjálfi and Röskva as their servants.

An educational edition of this comic received The Danish School Librarians' Association's Children's Book Prize in 1982.

The giant (jötunn) Þrymr has stolen Thor's hammer Mjölnir, and will only return it in exchange for marrying the goddess Freyja.

Odin remains gone for a long time, and rumor has it that he is dead, and his brothers Ve and Vili claim his throne.

The story is not based on any particular myth alone, it consists of bits and pieces from the Prose Edda, Heimskringla and other sources.

Fander, Hogur and Voldsdag are based on Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg (Warriors Three) from Marvel Comics.

The boy behaves horribly and becomes disliked by all the gods, Þjálfi and Röskva being the only ones he finally learns to like.

Thor, Loki, Þjálfi and Röskva travel to Utgard to have a competition with the jötnar led by Útgarða-Loki.

They travel to Utgard and stay with the giant Hymir, where Tyr is forced to face a past he would rather have forgotten.

Odin plots to finally seduce her while Heimdall falls in love for the first time, and Loki gets caught in the middle of the trouble he starts between them all.

We are told the story of how the tribes of the aesir and vanir gods made war back in the days, and of how they exchanged members to ensure the peace that was finally reached.

The comic is a pastiche of Film Noir featuring Odin as the detective in what starts as a murder case.

Peter Madsen won The SAS Prize for Best Nordic for this comic at the Raptus Festival in Bergen, Norway.

A rather free adaptation about the slaying of Baldr, based both on the accounts of the Poetic and Prose Edda, as well as Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum.

In the afterword the authors explain and motivate this that out of the three accounts of the story, it is only in the Prose Edda that Loki actually has any hand in Baldr's death.

It was released one page at a time on the online edition of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten as of January 5, 2007.

All albums have been translated into Swedish and Norwegian with the earlier albums also translated into Dutch, German, French, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese and Indonesian, so somebody who knows these languages or anyone a bit familiar with Norse Mythology can enjoy these renditions of the adventures of Thor and Loki.

The story is based on albums one, four and five, focusing on Tjalfe, Røskva and their meeting with Thor, Loki and Quark.

Peter Madsen drew the artwork for the Valhalla stamp and he also made a deck of playing cards with his characters.