ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1972

 

The Mangog's 8th appearance. He/she's 4th consecutive appearance (Mangog is literally composed of males and females killed by Odin). 

Mangog would not appear again for nearly 4 years.

Written by Gerry Conway, envisioned by John Buscema and embellished by Vince Colletta. 

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      Thor is on the cover but not inside.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1963

Thor's 8th Marvel appearance. Like his previous appearances, it was in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and had a Jack Kirby cover. It was the 5th cover embellished by Dick Ayers.

That was Kirby & Ayers only contribution to the issue.

Carbon-Copy Man's 1st appearance. His 2nd would be 25 years later in X-FACTOR.

Doctor Blake's 8th appearance

Nurse Foster's 7th appearance

Odin's 5th appearance.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1964

Jack Kirby composed cover art for 9 of the 11 comics released by Marvel the 1st month of 1964.

Kirby was responsible for the 25 covers Thor had appeared on since his debut.

Inker: Sol Brodsky

Inker: George Roussos

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1966

 Thor's 75th appearance.

The Marvel Age of Comparative Mythology continued with the 4th appearance of  Hercules. Herc debuted in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY ANNUAL #1 eight months earlier.

 

What the cover promises 13 of the 16 pages of the main story deliver - Thor and Hercules fighting over Nurse Foster (her 40th appearance)

Kirby/Colletta art, Thor battling a worthy opponent, the Rainbow Bridge, Asgard, angry Odin (his 35th appearance) and Balder (his 15th appearance).

Plus Loki (31st appearance) & Thor continue a quest in the Tales of Asgard 5-pager.

Doctor Don Blake does not appear in this issue

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1968

Loki's 14th cover appearance. Like the previous 13 it was penciled by Jack Kirby. It was the 6th Loki cover to be embellished by Vince Colletta.  Dick Ayers inked 5. Ditko, Roussos & Stone each did one a piece.

Besides being on the cover Loki makes his 35th appearance in this issue. 

They are not on the cover but Sif,  Balder, Karnilla, the Wrecker and the Destroyer contribute to making this a nearly perfect issue.

A 16 page chapter of a continued story.  It could have been 5 pages longer if not for the Inhumans back-up story. 

There was only 2 Kirby splash pages. The other splash was basically the same as the cover composition minus the floating Loki head.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1969

Art by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta

One of the 100 best THOR covers ever!?

The 3rd consecutive issue to feature Galactus. The 18th consecutive issue that Lee/Kirby didn't create any new characters for. 

To make sure the Galactus appearance had an epic feel splash pages were used for 30% of the issue.