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!

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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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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.

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)!

IN YOUR LCS 4 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #27 $3.99

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

     STARBRAND REBORN Part One: RIOT IN THE SPACE PRISON! An epic space adventure that takes the Avengers into an alien prison the size of a galaxy, where a mysterious new wielder of the all-powerful Starbrand has suddenly appeared, unleashing cosmic chaos. Good thing the Avengers brought along their newest member, the Black Widow.
      Not only is Thor Odinson on the cover. He is inside too!

FANTASTIC FOUR GRAND DESIGN #2 $5.99 

(W/A/CA) Tom Scioli
  Writer/artist/colorist/letterer TOM SCIOLI distills the magic of Stan and Jack's legendary FF run into forty pages of nonstop fun! Featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer! Thor appears in a couple of panels.

VENOM #20 $3.99

(W) Donny Cates (A) Iban Coello, Jose Carlos Silva (CA) Kyle Hotz
    It's the final tie-in to ABSOLUTE CARNAGE! Thor appears on one flashback page

IN YOUR LCS 43 YEARS AGO TODAY

 
Cover by Dave Simons and Josef Rubinstein

Like most WHAT IF? tales the 33 page Peter Gillis self-contained story is logical and imaginative. The events it alters are from THOR #136.  To increase your enjoyment Gillis/Buckler/Simons do a 2 page retelling of the 16 page Lee/Kirby/Colletta classic.

 

IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO TODAY

 THOR #19

(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Nic Klein

"GOD OF HAMMERS" STARTS HERE!

Mjolnir has gone missing! And nobody, not even the powerful eyes of Lady Sif, is able to locate it. So Thor must turn to the last person he wants help from - Odin. For until the hammer is found, nobody in the realms is safe! Artist Nic Klein is back for the twists and turns not even the All-Father is ready for!

Gary Frank variant

Mahmud Asrar variant

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

MIGHTY THOR #13 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Steve Epting (CA) Russell Dauterman

    The War of the Realms rages on. The only way to defeat Malekith is for the realms to join forces, and it's up to Lady Thor to bring them together.  Heroes from across the ten realms - including Lady Sif and Angela - have united under Thor's command to form a new League of Realms with the sole mission of bringing this war to an end.  And their first mission: Infiltrate Dark-Elf-occupied territory.

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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!)

IN YOUR LCS 34 YEARS AGO TODAY

Not only is Thor on the cover, he also appears in 1 panel inside.

Cover and interior art by Bill Reinhold.

Not only is Thor on the cover, he also appears in 7 panels inside.

Loki appears in 5 panels inside.

Thor and Loki do not appear in any panels together.

Cover and interior art by Paul Ryan and Tom Palmer.

 

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.

IN YOUR LCS 9 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS AND X-MEN AXIS #6 $3.99 

(W) Rick Remender (A) Terry Dodson (CA) Jim Cheung
   The Axis of Evil have won, who is left to stop them?  Rogue and Nightcrawler vs Mystique! Thor vs Loki!   Magneto and Quicksilver vs The Scarlet Witch! This is it, the face of the new world disorder--The Astonishing Avengers are formed!

Ribic Inversion variant

AXIS REVOLUTIONS #2 $3.99

(W) Frank Tieri, Kevin Maurer (A) TBD, Paul Davidson (CA) Kalman Andrasofszky
   Nightcrawler decides to avenge the death of Wolverine by hunting down Sabretooth!  And Thor goes on a bender!

LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #8 $3.99

(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Lee Garbett

   With a quip on his lips and a song in his heart, Loki continues his dashing quest for truth, justice and the Asgardian Way!  Guest-starring -- the Enchantress! And some other people, including Thor. 

AVENGERS #38 $3.99 

(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Stefano Caselli (CA) Simone Bianchi
     IN 6 MONTHS...TIME RUNS OUT! Thor appears oh so briefly.

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.

IN YOUR LCS 42 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor's 436th appearance was his 21st for 1981.

What the cover promises the 21 page conclusion of a two-part story inside delivers, Alan Weiss artwork and the Molecule Man. It does not warn you that there is more Don Blake than Thor... 

MURDERWORLD AVENGERS #1 $3.99

(W) Jim Zub (A) Jethro Morales (CA) Paco Medina

   Hundreds are killed every year in an elaborate secret tournament run by a sadistic man with nearly limitless resources. It's not an urban legend. Not a myth. MURDERWORLD is real! It's gruesome truth has been hidden from everyone except its victims - until NOW.

    Meet Paul Pastor, the extraordinary young documentarian who's going to expose it all, with some super-powered help. Gut-wrenching twists, unbelievable deaths, the Avengers bloodier than you've ever seen them before!

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IMMORTAL THOR #4 $4.99

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

SUMMONS OF THE ALL-FATHER!

On the dark side of the moon, God faced Goddess - and that was only the beginning of Thor's troubles. But as his many foes gathered to destroy him, the Odinson had one final trick to play... This is the story of THE IMMORTAL THOR...and the Summoning of the Four.

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MAURO CASCIOLI AVENGERS 60TH VAR

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 52 YEARS AGO TODAY

 This issue delivers more than the John Buscema cover promises.

 

Words by Gerry Conway. Art by John Buscema and Vince Colletta.
THOR #196 was the Mangog's sixth appearance since Lee/Kirby/Colletta debuted him in THOR #154. 

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?

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 53 YEARS AGO TODAY

John Buscema became the third artist to depict Asgard's most enchanting goddess on a cover.

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

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.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1966

Thor's 13th appearance of 1966 was his 87th appearance of all time.

Not only is the impressive cover rendered by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta, so is the 16 page self-contained story of Nurse Foster attempting to prove herself worthy of godhood. Her 10th appearance of 1966 was her 49th of all time.

Plus Kirby and Colletta provide a 5 page TALES OF ASGARD backup that features Thor fighting a dragon.

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

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!!

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 59 YEARS AGO TODAY

Cover by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone. They also collaborated on 12 pages of Thor battling the Hulk and 4 pages of Thor chatting with teenage fans.

The issue ends with a 5 page Tales of Asgard spotlighting young Loki drawn by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta.