ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov/Dec 1971

It is not unusual for a THOR cover to deliver what it promises but having Thor and the Warriors Three fighting trolls is not setting the bar high.

But then to have writer Gerry Conway and cover artist John Buscema deliver this...

 

Neal Adams and Tom Palmer collaborate on the cover AND the 21 interior pages. Back then the white privilege hero versus hated-because-of-being-different hero plot was still fresh. Roy Thomas was the writer keepin' it real.

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

IMMORTAL THOR #3 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Martin Coccolo (CA) Alex Ross

THOR IN THE WILDERNESS!

As Toranos hunted him across the stars, the Odinson found himself trapped - marooned in a puzzle the size of a planet. In this place, the All-Father's crown - and even his own godly strength - availed him nothing. What power, then, would save him? This is the story of THE IMMORTAL THOR...and the time of the Trickster's Test.

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IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

WHAT IF? THOR #1 $3.99

(W) Sacks, Ethan (A) Michele Bandini (CA) Marco Checchetto
   When young THOR'S father falls to the King of Giants, his life is forever changed. He's ripped from Asgard to be raised in a world of persistent winter, learning the brutal way of life in Jotenheim. But what happens when the runt of the giants, LOKI, is under the shadow of his new step-brother?

Christopher action figure variant

SENTRY #5 $3.99 

(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Joshua Cassara (CA) Aaron Kim Jacinto
   Bob Reynolds and the Sentry are both dead...so it's time for something new to rise in their place! Thor and the Avengers appear.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #8 $3.99 

(W) Nick Spencer (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
   The heist of the century is ON!   Who are the Thieves Guild of New York?  Spidey might dying trying to find out. Thor makes a brief embarrassing appearance

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov 1965

My grandfather gave me a quarter at the drugstore. Guess what I purchased off the spinner rack?

This?

 
or this?

Instead I bought these.   

It would be a couple more years before I would outgrow Curt Swan. I would not mature sufficiently to make me appreciate a Kirby THOR cover enough to buy an issue for another 20 months.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov 1970

Thor's 16th appearance of the year.

    This comic delivers what the cover promises. 19 pages of John Buscema definitively depicting Doom battling Thor for 14 of the 19 pages. 

    The conclusion of a two part story.

    No new characters are introduced.