Thursday, November 30, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

RAGNAROK #7 $3.99
(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson 
The Black Elf assassin, Regn, and his young daughter, Drifa, have hunted Thor for countless leagues across the Dusk Lands, to the ruins of Asgard. Now, as Thor calls down the lightning to create a funeral pyre for the dead of Asgard, Regn prepares himself for his greatest challenge, to kill the last god standing, the god responsible for the death of his wife. 
Art Adams variant cover

MARVEL THOR 8IN RETRO ACTION FIGURE SET $80
      Capturing Marvel's God of Thunder in all his 1970s glory, this retro-style action figure set features a cloth-costumed Thor just as he looked when he was released by the Mego Corporation in his first action figure appearance! With his hammer, helmet, and long golden hair, Thor comes packaged inside a vintage-style window box. Thor also comes with two extra heads and outfits to change into his alter ego, Dr. Donald Blake, as well as a more modern take on the hero, complete with an updated hammer. All are packaged in a display-ready gift tray. Limited to 3,000 sets! Designed and Sculpted by EMCE Toys!

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

CAPTAIN AMERICA #3 $4.99
     RON FRENZ AVENGERS 60TH VARIANT


HOWARD THE DUCK #1 $5.99
(W) Chip Zdarsky, Daniel Kibblesmith (A) Joe Quinones (CA) Ed McGuinness
     CELEBRATE HIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY IN THIS ALL-NEW ONE-SHOT!


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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 34 YEARS AGO TODAY

    What the cover promises the 17 page story delivers, Ron Frenz and Joe Sinnott depicting a Thor battle. Hercules guest stars and there are two mystery villains.
    Plus there is a 5 page Beta Ray Bill back-up tale drawn by Ron Lim and Mike DeCarlo.

Monday, November 27, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 33 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor's 31st appearance of 1990

Ron Frenz collaborates with Joe Sinnott on the cover and the 22 interior pages. Co-plotter Tom DeFalco provides the variation of Marvel Misunderstanding that causes Thor to battle Excalibur.
Helping to make this a slightly better than average issue are appearances by Ulik, the Enchantress and the cover-featured Wrecker (with his Wrecking Crew)!

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


MSH SECRET WARS BATTLEWORLD #1 $4.99
(W) Tom DeFalco (A) Pat Olliffe (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli
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!)

Monday, November 20, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 4 YEARS AGO TODAY

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. 




CAPTAIN MARVEL #12 $3.99 
(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.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 36 YEARS AGO TODAY

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.

Monday, November 13, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

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?

Saturday, November 11, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

 
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

Friday, November 10, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

 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.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 6 YEARS AGO TODAY


ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 2 #4 $4.99
(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

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 45 YEARS AGO TODAY

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!!

Sunday, November 5, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 9 YEARS AGO TODAY

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.

Saturday, November 4, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

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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THOR #2 6TH PTG COIPEL VAR $3.99



AVENGERS #38 $3.99
(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.




NEIL GAIMAN NORSE MYTHOLOGY #2 $3.99

(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.

P. Craig Russell Cover

David Mack Cover

Thursday, November 2, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

 
DAMAGE CONTROL #3 (OF 5) $3.99
(W) Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff (A) Will Robson, Nathan Stockman (CA) Patrick Zircher
After two disastrous days of office mayhem, Head Intern Bart Rozum decides that he has to find Gus a job outside of the Flatiron Building - so he assigns Gus to the Search and Rescue unit. Bart thinks, if Gus is mostly responding to the scenes of superhuman battles after the fact, how much trouble could he really get in to? Unfortunately, on Gus' first day with Search and Rescue, the unit is summoned to New Jersey to deal with a giant mutated catfish monster who calls himself Trentonn the Terrible. A tale of Catfish Kaiju, Insurance Fraud and Terrigenesis with special appearances from the Black Tarantula, Hammerhead and the God of Thunder himself!

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