Both of these 1963 covers are by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.

The stories they promote were drawn by Joe Sinnott and written by Robert Bernstein.

   I was a Bernstein fan as a child even though I didn't know his name. The barbershop where I went as a child had DCs, mostly Superman titles. Many of the stories were by Bernstein including this 1961 Swan-drawn one.

 

"I guessed that Loki must be the original ancestor of Mr. Mxyzptlk and that he, too, can be sent to the 5th dimension for 90 days if he could be tricked into saying his name backwards." JIMMY OLSEN #55 (Jimmy the Red, Thor's Best Pal)

Thor first appeared in comics 22 years before his Marvel incarnation.

 

His series debuted in Weird Comics #1 and lasted five issues.

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(W) Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing (A) Juann Cabal 

(CA) Miguel Mercado

BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!

In a devastating future born from the choices of today, time and space is threatened by the ascension of an ancient evil. The MOON KNIGHT UNENDING has risen - a nightmare born of StarkTech, the Eternal Machine and the God of the Moon - and now all of Earth bows before his overwhelming power! One man stands against Khonshu's coming tide of chaos: POWER MAN, the Marvel Universe's final living super hero. But who is Power Man - and how did he come to wield the unstable powers of the Sentry, the Hulk and the Iron Fist? What dark, deeply personal conflict underpins this mind-bending apocalypse? And at the end of the line, can the Marvel Universe ever truly be saved? 

PLUS - a SHOCKING glimpse into the next year of Marvel stories!

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ONE WILL UNITE THEM!
      A mysterious murder brings together the heroes of the Marvel Universe in the search for a killer - but no one can imagine where the trail will lead, or how it will affect everything in 2020 and beyond! Who is the victim and who is the assailant? The closing chapter to MARVEL's 80th year, which will connect the dots of everything that happened in 2019 and propel the narrative into the coming year! Featuring the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, Spider-Man, the Champions, the Agents of Atlas, Valkyrie, the Immortal Hulk, Jessica Jones, Venom, Ghost Rider, the Masked Raider and more!

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(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Mark Bagley

     VENOM ISLAND BEGINS HERE! Thor Odinson appears.  'Nuff said!

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(W) Zeb Wells (A) Will Robson (CA) Wendell Dalit

    APORKALYPSE NOW!   Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tail! Spider-Ham finally has his own series! (Again!)
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham finds himself jumping through time, side-by-side with Peter PARKER, the Spectacular Spider-MAN!  Thor Odinson doesn't appear but Dog Thor does...

Walt Simonson proto-reindeer cover

"Thor was the god of the peasants and the common people. He was represented as an elderly man, jovial and friendly, of heavy build, with a long white beard. His element was fire, his color red. The rumble and roar of thunder were said to be caused by the rolling of his chariot, for he alone among the gods never rode on horseback, but drove in a chariot drawn by two white goats (called Cracker and Gnasher). He was fighting the giants of ice and snow, and thus became the Yule-god. He was said to live in the "Northland," where he had his palace among the icebergs. By our pagan forefathers he was considered as the cheerful and friendly god, never harming humans, but rather helping and protecting them. The fireplace in every home was especially sacred to him, and he was said to come down through the chimney into his element, the fire."

        MYTHS OF NORTHERN LANDS (1895) H.A. Guerber

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Writer: Jason Aaron 

Artist: Ron Garney 

Cover Artist: Esad Ribic

   Death comes in the mountains of Jotunheim... and there is a traitor among Thor's newly formed League of Realms! As Thor prepares to execute one of his own comrades, Malekith stages his final bloody raid... on Earth.

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     Writer: Rick Remender   Art:Steve McNiven

The fate of humanity rests in the hands of Thor, but can the God of Thunder defeat the combined might of two Apocalypses? 

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   Writer: Christopher Hastings Art: Jacopo Camagni
       1 panel Thor cameo

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Thor is unconscious but Captain America isn't?!?!?

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THOR #29 $3.99

(W) Torunn Gronbekk (A/CA) Nic Klein

"THE LEGACY OF THANOS" - PART ONE!

Nic Klein returns with guest writer Torunn Gr?nbekk (JANE FOSTER & THE MIGHTY THOR, PUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL) for a Valkyrie-filled adventure! When a universally loathed foe kidnaps Thor's baby sister Laussa and drags her so deep beyond Hel that not even Sif's All-Sight can see her, the God of Thunder must call upon the one ally who has traveled so far into the unknown before. But what dark secrets of Asgard's bloody past lay beneath the frozen waters?

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(W) Christopher Cantwell, J. Michael Straczynski (A) Ron Lim, Andrea DiVito (CA) Andrea Sorrentino
• Spinning out of Donny Cates & Nic Klein's THOR comes an all-new Thanos one-shot, with Ron Lim's return to the Mad Titan!
•  Thanos is missing, presumed dead. But Thor has seen a vision of his return. And it is enough to make even a God fear. To prepare himself, to prepare the universe, Thor desperately searches for answers in Thanos' past... and finds a glimpse of the Marvel Universe's dark future.

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(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa (CA) Stuart Immonen

Trapped in a world they never made, the Avengers struggle to break free - while one of their number fights their own hopeless battle against Myrddin and his Twilight Court! But Avengers never fight alone- and the most dangerous Avenger joins the conflict!

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THOR WORTHY #1 $4.99 

(W) Walter Simonson, More (A) Ron Frenz, More (CA) Kim Jacinto

      Simonson's Thor run is considered to be some of the best comics of all time, period. The legend returns for a special tale about Thor and Beta Ray Bill - with art from Mike Hawthorne and beloved veteran Sal Buscema! The trio is joined by another unforgettable Thor team: Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, telling an all-new Thunderstrike story! No Thor story would be complete without his most trusted companion: the berserker warrior extraordinaire, Lady Sif! Kathyrn Immonen wrote one of the landmark Sif tales in her Journey Into Mystery  run - and she returns for a brand-new journey!

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(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson

    As the Great Enemies plot to destroy the God of Thunder, the last of their ancient foes, Thor fights to free slaves laboring in a deadly mine on the rim of Helheim, the kingdom of the dead. The recovered ore is being turned into magical sword blades that will enable the despotic ruler of the upper levels of Helheim to conquer the Dusk Lands with fire and blood.

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     CELEBRATE HIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY IN THIS ALL-NEW ONE-SHOT!

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An ALL-NEW cataclysmic battle from when SPIDER-MAN first got his ALIEN COSTUME, when a mysterious being called the BEYONDER assembled super heroes and villains from Earth to do battle on a patchwork planet - witness now an untold adventure set during the original SECRET WARS! This new story will at last reveal some secret connections and MISSING CHARACTERS going back to the 1984 original series, just in time for its 40th Anniversary! What SECRET TEST are the BEYONDERS conducting...and how will SPIDER-MAN, the HUMAN TORCH and the whole cast determine the fate of the universe? (PLUS: Surprise super-villain appearances inside!)

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KING THOR #3 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Esad Ribic

   All-Father Thor believed the fight with his brother Loki - now empowered by the Necrosword and more bitter than ever - would be the bloodiest fight of his long life. But he's about to be proven wrong. Gorr the God Butcher has bided his time for millennia. Now, it is the end of all things. And the end of the last of the gods. 

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(W) Kelly Thompson (A) Lee Garbett (CA) Mark Brooks

   CAPTAIN MARVEL VERSUS THE AVENGERS! Captain Marvel faces her greatest challenge: kill the Avengers. Has one of the world's most powerful heroes gone dark? But why? And what does this mean for Carol...for the world? Life on earth will never be the same.  Thor is not only on the cover he is inside too!

LOKI #5 $3.99 

(W) Daniel Kibblesmith (A) Andy MacDonald (CA) Ozgur Yildirim

    IT'S WOLVERINE VS. LOKI BACK IN THE OLD WEST! Loki doesn't exactly belong in these parts - or in this time period! But that's never stopped the god of mischief before. And with Wolverine on his side, there's no man or god with the power to stop him. Now...he's just gotta get Wolverine on his side. See their first ever team-up in this two-fisted tale of gods and gunslingers, when Loki meets: THE MAN FROM UP NORTH! Thor makes the briefest of appearances.

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Walt Simonson's 49th THOR cover

Rarely does an artist write as well as he draws but Simonson proves with this 22 page story that he is the worthy exception.

Solid Sal Buscema is not only tasked with providing Absorbing Man action sequences. He also composes sequences with Loki, Sif, the Enchantress, Hogun, Heimdall and Balder.

Neither Don Blake nor Jane Foster appears.

Like many THOR issues it has a cliffhanger ending.

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THOR GOD OF THUNDER #15 $3.99 

Writer: Jason Aaron

Cover Art & Interior Art: Ron Garney

   The hunt for Malekith the Accursed continues! Thor and his newfound compatriots in the League of Realms chase the Dark Elf marauder across the Nine Realms: From the exotic fairy gardens of Alfheim to the frozen mountains of Jotunheim, where giants dwell. But when one of the League falls...will it mean war for all Realms?

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ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #2 $3.99

(W) Mark Waid (A) Adam Kubert, Mahmud A. Asrar (CA) Alex Ross

     Captain America, Thor, Vision, and Iron Man--are living separate lives--but when a threat from beyond the stars targets our world, fate draws them together once more, alongside Nova, Ms. Marvel, and Miles Morales a.k.a. Spider-Man!

 Jim Jimenez variant cover

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 BLACK PANTHER #1 $4.99

(W) John Ridley (A) Juan Cabal (CA) Alex Ross

Secrets from T'Challa's past have come back to haunt him! Fresh from returning from space, Black Panther receives an urgent message from a Wakandan secret agent! T'Challa must not only save his agent, but also keep his true agenda under wraps. If the truth comes out, it could cost T'Challa everything.

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(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A) Yusaku Komiyama (CA) Kiichi Mizushima
    The Avengers finally come face-to-face with Patient Zero - a super-powerful zombie who can control the mindless, mutated horde on the loose in New York City. When the team discovers who Jasper Scott really is, and what he's done to facilitate the spread of the virus, they'll learn just how intertwined his and Dr. Amano's pasts truly are. Can the Avengers overcome Patient Zero and save the city? Printed in black and white in the original right-to-left reading orientation.

Kaluta variant cover

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Thor's 374th appearance was his 27th one for 1978.

What the Joe Sinnott cover promises the 17 page self-contained story by Don and Maggie Thompson, Roy Thomas, Wayne Boring and Tom Palmer more than delivers. Thor doesn't encounter just one Hyperion. He has to deal with two!!

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AVENGERS AND X-MEN AXIS #4 $3.99 

(W) Rick Remender (A) Leinil Francis Yu (CA) Jim Cheung

   The fate of the Red Skull decided. An Avenger quits. KLUH, the strongest one there is, is born. Doom tears down Latveria. The X-Men join their greatest foe. Thor appears on 6 pages.

DEADPOOLS ART OF WAR #2 $3.99

(W) Peter David (A/CA) Scott Koblish

    Deadpool's war is well under way and out of his control!  Loki has the conquest of Earth in his sights and the 'Pool in his dungeon! Plenty of Thor and other Asgardians.

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THOR #9 $3.99 

(W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel

THE RETURN OF DONALD BLAKE!

The "Prey" arc starts! Once upon a time, a mortal man bore within him the spirit of a god. With a crack of his cane upon the ground, the Mighty Thor would appear! But it's been years since the King of Asgard required his human ward. Where has the good doctor been all this time - and what does his reappearance mean for the God of Thunder? Journey into a mystery left unsolved since 1962!

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(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Ed McGuinness

The Avengers have saved Earth from the god of the Moon, but the return of a certain planet-burning cosmic firebird isn't going to give them much time to catch their breath. Plus: The devil may be dead, but the threat of Mephisto lingers on, with a legacy interwoven in heretofore untold chapters of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

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(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (A) P. Craig Russell & Various 
Loki is forced to atone for his latest prank by pitting two groups of dwarfs against each other in a contest that will either bring the gods greater treasures than they could dream of, or cost him his head . . . or both.

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