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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INCOMING #1 $9.99 

(W) Al Ewing, More (A) Aaron Kud(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Mark Bagley

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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THOR GOD OF THUNDER #16 $3.99

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!

RAGNAROK BREAKING OF HELHEIM #3  

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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.