This screen print depicting the Marvel character Thor (opens in a new tab), as played by Chris Hemsworth, was created by the talented Uruguayan designer and artist Martin Ansin (opens in a new tab). It was commissioned by the limited edition poster outfit Mondo (opens in a new tab) as part of a series of prints that were released in preparation for the highly anticipated Marvel superhero team-up, The Avengers (opens in a new tab) (2012). A print was released for each of the seven main heroes featured in the first film. This included one for Captain America by the design outfit Phantom City Creative and one for The Hulk by Ken Taylor. This page on Collider.com (opens in a new tab) shows five of the posters and Beyond the Marquee has the other two (opens in a new tab). To finish of the series Mondo asked Tyler Stout to design a poster for the actual Avengers film itself. Read my interview with Tyler about his work on the print.

Not all of the characters that made the line-up for the first film were given a solo outing before The Avengers was released. The first Iron Man film that was released in 2008 set the template that others followed and made a tidy profit at the box office in doing so. A sequel followed two years later and then Thor’s solo outing was released in 2011 along with the first Captain America film. This then completed what is called Phase One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (opens in a new tab). Phase Two began with Iron Man 3 in 2013.

Ansin’s work has graced many of the best posters released by Mondo, including several in the Universal Monsters series, like this amazing Phantom of the Opera one. This Thor poster was printed in a regular and variant version (opens in a new tab) with the variant having a grey/silver colour-way and glow-in-the-dark inks.

See the other posters I’ve collected by Ansin. His official website (opens in a new tab) is well worth a browse.