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When Loki stole the Odin-Ring, he became powerful enough to destroy the Silver Surfer’s Surfboard – but he didn’t have this power for long.
Though Loki has become much more of a morally ambiguous character in recent years, in the Thor comics of the 1960s and 1970s he was solidly a megalomaniac villain. In one storyline from this era, he stole the Odin-Ring from Odin, which granted him immense power and allowed him to rule over Asgard. With the help of the Norn Queen Karnilla, Loki used the Odin-Ring to create Durok the Destroyer, a warrior under his command who was powerful enough to beat even Thor.
Durok managed to temporarily vanquish Thor, and when the Silver Surfer arrived to fight him, Durok proved himself to be a worthy opponent for the herald of Galactus, crushing the Silver Surfer’s surfboard into many pieces. However, the ultimate outcome of the fight showed that although Loki’s trickery may procure him great power, he is still no match for one as heroic and noble as the Silver Surfer.
In Thor #193 (by Gerry Conway, John Buscema, Sal Buscema and Artie Simek), Loki sends Durok off to fight Thor. Balder the Brave, a friend of Thor, calls on the Silver Surfer to aid Thor out of fear for his friend’s life. When the Silver Surfer finds Thor, he has already been killed by Durok. However, the Silver Surfer uses his power cosmic to revive him. While Thor returns to Asgard to fight Loki directly, the Silver Surfer battles against Durok, who catches him off guard and breaks his surfboard into many pieces.
Though the Silver Surfer has fallen, he gathers the strength to repair the surfboard using his power cosmic. Realizing that he cannot defeat Durok through brute strength, the Silver Surfer takes Durok far into the future, when no humans are left on Earth, and leaves him there. Though he may not be able to vanquish Durok, he can at least take him to a time period where he will not be able to hurt anyone else.
Meanwhile in Asgard, Thor fights Loki to prevent him from taking Sif as his bride. However, Loki begins suffering mysterious pains. He realizes that the Odin-Ring is sapping his strength. The ring is too powerful for Loki to use without killing him, so Loki removes it and the ring is reclaimed by Odin. As Odin explains, the Odin-Ring demands selflessness and nobility of its wearer. Because Loki obtained the ring through theft and used its power to satisfy his own greed, he was unworthy and unfit to wield its power, so the ring turned on him by causing him physical pain.
Through Durok, Loki was able to break the Silver Surfer’s surfboard. However, the Silver Surfer’s power cosmic enabled him to repair it right away. The Silver Surfer is deserving of his immense power because he is heroic and selfless, putting humans’ lives before his own even though he is hated by humans. Thus, Durok was not able to cause him any lasting damage. Loki, on the other hand, was not deserving of the power he wielded through the Odin-Ring. So, any damage he managed to cause through Durok was only temporary. Because of Loki’s villainous attributes, he could not wield the Odin-Ring for long, and ultimately didn’t accomplish very much with it.
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