IN YOUR LCS 15 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

What's better than having a cover by Ariel Olivetti?

22 pages of art by Ariel Olivetti.

Paul Jenkins provides a well-written Ragnarok prelude tale that cleverly characterizes Loki.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jul/Aug/Sep 1967

DC decided that the way to combat Marvel's increasing popularity was to parody Marvel.

This had shipped a week earlier

  

This was the 4th Thor comic I had purchased since discovering the character little more than a month earlier.  

Of course I bought INFERIOR FIVE too.

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR #3 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Michael Del Mundo

UNHOLY MATRIMONY!
War rages across the land of the dead, and not even the reunion of Thor with his brother Balder can stop it!  Perhaps peace might come from the wedding of the century... in Hel! With Hela, the goddess of death, as the bride, which Odinson brother is going to be the lucky groom? And what special surprise guest is looking to put a deadly stop to the nuptials?

James Harren Hammer variant

OLD MAN HAWKEYE #7 $3.99

(W) Sacks, Ethan (A) Marco Checchetto, Ibraim Roberson (CA) Marco Checchetto

   THE FALL OF THE SUPER HEROES!  HAWKEYE's been on a mission to hunt down the THUNDERBOLTS that betrayed him. Now see exactly what happened on that fateful date 45 years ago, in all of its bloody detail!  This issue - everybody dies! See how Thor dies in the Old-Man-verse.

AVENGERS #5 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Ed McGuinness, Paco Medina (CA) Ed McGuinness

    Behold the wildest, most awe-inspiring team of Avengers ever assembled! But will it be enough to defeat the combined powers of Loki and the Final Host of Dark Celestials? And what is the startling secret of the Progenitor? Thor and She-Hulk continue their team-up

LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 $4.99 

(W) Margaret Stohl (A) Carlos Pacheco (CA) Julian Totino Tedesco

    Carol Danvers was just a girl from the Boston suburbs who loved science and the Red Sox until a chance encounter with a Kree hero gave her incredible super-powers. Now, she's a leader in the Avengers and the commander of Alpha Flight. But what if there were more to the story? When crippling anxiety attacks put her on the sidelines in the middle of a fight, Carol finds herself reliving memories of a life she thought was far behind her. You can't outrun where you're from - and sometimes, you HAVE to go home again.  Thor has a 1 panel cameo and a line of dialog.

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

RAGNAROK BREAKING OF HELHEIM #1 $4.99

(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson

In the end, the gods gathered together and met their foes on the Battle Plain of Vigrid.  There, so the stories tell, the gods and their great enemies slaughtered each other, the stars fell from the sky, Midgard itself sank into the all-encompassing ocean, and the Nine worlds were destroyed. In this issue, Thor hears a voice out of the past and learns that not all the old stories are true, and that the path before him now leads to Helheim, the land of the Dead. 

LOKI #1 $3.99

(W) Daniel Kibblesmith (A) Oscar Bazaldva

    After dying a grisly death in THE WAR OF THE REALMS, Loki learned a valuable lesson in warmongering: Don't get caught. But now he has a whole new set of responsibilities - and his brother Thor is not about to let him walk away from them this time. 

Will Sliney Carnagized Variant cover.

IN YOUR LCS 41 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor's 7th appearance of 1985. His 616th appearance of all time.

It was the 35th time Walt Simonson did a THOR cover.

It was the 22nd time Walt Simonson also was the writer/artist of the  accompanying story.