IN YOUR LCS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

If you had been reading THOR for more than 8 years and you did not look beyond the copy-heavy Rich Buckler cover...

you wouldn't have known, until you started reading it, that you were buying a reprint of this Kirby-covered issue..

Minus 2 of the Jack Kirby/Vince Colletta splash pages including this one.

Three years later you might have thought that you were having an acid flashback when you saw this page as a black light poster in your local Head Shop!

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

ALLIGATOR LOKI #1 $5.99

(W) Alyssa Wong (A) Bob Quinn (CA) Skottie Young

ALLIGATOR LOKI MAKES HIS PRINT COMIC DEBUT!  First Alligator Loki chomped down on Mjolnir, and then he chomped his way into our hearts. Now, the Alligator of Mischief finds - and makes - trouble all across the Marvel Universe in his very own comic! Collecting the hit Infinity Comics series from the Marvel Unlimited app, this one-shot includes a never-before-seen adventure!

DOALY VARIANT

SKOTTIE YOUNG VARIANT

AVENGERS INC #1 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Leonard Kirk (CA) Daniel Acuna

Janet Van Dyne. She's a hero. She's a celebrity. She's hunting a killer. His name is Victor Shade. He's a villain. He's an enigma. He just got killed. And together, they're out to solve every mystery in the Marvel Universe...starting with their own. A whole new style of Avenging - from a whole new style of Avengers...

ALEX ROSS CONNECT AVENGERS PART C VARIANT

LEO ROMERO AVENGERS 60TH VARIANT

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1970

Not only is the cover drawn by the legendary John Buscema, so are the 19 story pages.

Thor delivers a previous issue recap monolog 

so that panel 3 of page 4 will make sense to the readers.

Doctor Blake reaches out to investigative journalist Harris Hobbs, who visited Asgard 5 years earlier in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #123

IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1 (OF 5) $4.99

(W) Steve Orlando (A) Smith, Cory (CA) Leinil Yu

RETURN TO AVENGERS MANSION!

When vampires attacked, a ragtag group of volunteer Avengers changed the tide of battle. And in the aftermath, Captain America has formed the Avengers Emergency Response Squad! Steve's handpicked team of veterans and newcomers live and train in Avengers Mansion, and when Captain America sounds the mission horn, whoever's on base has seconds to pack up and deploy. When the Red Skull's daughter discovers a dangerous artifact, Cap, Wasp, Photon and Shang-Chi set out to stop her - while Hawkeye hosts a poker game for the late arrivals.  

WRAPAROUND MARVEL STUDIOS variant 

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1969

The second issue of THOR to have a John Romita cover.

After a monolog recap Thor spends THOR #170 engaged in battle with a giant robot that Lee/Kirby created in the previous issue. The Warriors Three assist him. 

Plus there is a 2 page sequence "many worlds away" featuring Karnilla and Loki having a non-violent spat. One of the rare issues that doesn't introduce any new characters.