Monday, May 4, 2026

ON THE SPINNER RACKS May/June 1964

Good May to be a Thor fan. 

A new Lee/Kirby AVENGERS with a 23 page Kirby battlefest.


Plus Thor involved in a Loki/Doctor Strange wizard battle
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with 9 pages of art by the legendary Steve Ditko.
There was also a 2 panel Thor cameo
 in the Iron Man half of TALES OF SUSPENSE #56
(art by Don Heck)

Sunday, May 3, 2026

ON THE SPINNER RACKS May/June 1963

Thor's 5th 1963 appearance. 12th of all time.
The 3rd Thor/Loki cover of 1963. All 3 penciled by Jack Kirby. 
    A big story packed into 80 panels divided among a mere 12 pages (not counting the splash). Joe Sinnott is tasked with drawing the U.N. Building, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sphinx and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The first issue since JIM #83 not to have Jane Foster in it.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

 AVENGERS #1 $4.99 
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Ed McGuinness
    Thor Odinson, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark are reunited at last just in time to save the world from 2000-foot-tall space gods known as Celestials. What connection exists between the Final Host and Odin's ancient Prehistoric Avengers?
Arron Kuder Young Guns variant
Esad Ribic variant
Greg Land Party variant
Premiere variant

HUNT FOR WOLVERINE WEAPON LOST #1 $3.99 
    Note: Thor does not appear inside but he does appear on this Todd Nauck Where's Wolverine Variant cover

Friday, May 1, 2026

84 YEARS AGO TODAY

JACK KIRBY'S FIRST THOR COVER 
It also had Kirby's first Thor story art but it wasn't the first comic with a Thor story. Thor's first comic appearance was in WEIRD COMICS #1 more than two years earlier.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

IN YOUR LCS 12 YEARS AGO TODAY

WOLVERINE #5 $3.99 
(W) Paul Cornell (A) Gerardo Sandoval (CA) Ryan Stegman
   Logan faces his most dire threat yet -- with no healing factor to protect him!
AVENGERS #28 $3.99
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Salvador Larroca (CA) Agustin Alessio
   Bruce Banner puts the pieces together and confronts Iron Man. The Thors (that’s right, two of them) make a brief appearance.
  
AVENGERS WORLD #5 $3.99
(W) Nick Spencer, Jonathan Hickman (A) Stefano Caselli (CA) In-Hyuk Lee
   Three Avengers' lives depend on Manifold breaching the unbreachable. What is Manifold's true destiny? A dramatically posed but silent Thor appears on one page.

UNCANNY AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 $4.99
(W) Rick Remender (A) Paul Renaud (CA) Arthur Adams
   The first appearance of the Avengers of the Supernatural! When the producers of the Mojoverse can't make a hit series they call on Mojo to gather an all-new, all-creepy Avengers! Can the Uncanny Avengers survive the wrath of an unleashed Spirit of Vengeance? Thor and the Wolverine have a one-page tussle… plus see Thor in a Mojo movie!

WHAT IF AGE OF ULTRON #5 $3.99 
(W) Joe Keatinge (A) Raffaele Ienco, Ramon Villalobos, Neil Edwards and Mico Suayan (CA) Chris Stevens
   What if Hank Pym never created Ultron? Could a world survive without Ultron's own weapon-turned-Avenger, the Vision? In the darkest of all realities, can the Avengers ever hope to Assemble? Brief glimpses of  female alternate-timeline Thors!