Saturday, August 31, 2024

LEE/KIRBY/COLLETTA INTRODUCE FIVE MORE GODS

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #119's Tales of Asgard introduces crew members Hogun, Volstag, Fandral, Kroda and Magrat.
On the Spinner Racks June/July 1965.

Friday, August 30, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

SECRET EMPIRE #10 $4.99 
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Steve McNiven (CA) Mark Brooks
      Can there be any redemption for Captain America as the SECRET EMPIRE starts to crumble? Both Thor Odinson and Lady Thor appear.


JS CAMPBELL VARIANT

 SORRENTINO HYDRA HEROES VARIANT


THANOS #10 $3.99 
(W) Jeff Lemire (A) German Peralta (CA) Mike Deodato
   Earth's Mightiest Hero! Leader of the Avengers!  Champion of all that is good...THANOS?! Lady Thor appears in a few panels.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1959

Plenty of differences between this Thor and the Marvel one. Possibly the most interesting was having thunderstorms trigger the mortal-to-Thor transformation. The cover is the work of Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


MARVEL 85TH ANN SPECIAL $7.99 
(W) Ryan North, Various (A) Carlo Pagulayan, Various (CA) Kaare Andrews
      CELEBRATE MARVEL'S 50,000TH COMIC-BOOK!
In the year 50,000, the heroes of the Marvel Age are the stuff of legend, half remembered but still celebrated! Come with us now on a tour of the greatest museum in all the cosmos, in which the few surviving relics of those bygone days have been assembled. Each piece tells a unique story - about the Contest of Champions and how it wrought an end to the Age of Heroes!
 Marvel's greatest storytellers gather to commemorate the whole of Marvel history in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration!
LUCIANO VECCHIO WRAPAROUND Variant

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

INHUMAN #4 $3.99
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Ryan Stegman
   Medusa and the Inhumans get a visitor to New Attilan- THOR! 

 Joe Madureira variant cover


MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #29
 $2.99

(W) Joe Caramagna (A) Ramon Bachs, Ty Templeton (CA) Ty Templeton
    Loki puts a hex on Spidey, turning him into a pig! Enter: Peter Porker! Can our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Ham survive an Asgardian boar hunt? Of course Thor appears!



ORIGINAL SIN #5.4 $3.99
(W) Jason Aaron, Al Ewing (A) Simone Bianchi, Lee Garbett (CA) Simone Bianchi
   The deepest secret of the Nine Realms is revealed... a Tenth Realm! Thor and Loki embark on a quest to discover this strange new world -- and the sister Thor never knew he had... Angela! Can Loki be trusted? And will brother and sister murder each other before the truth comes out?



UNCANNY AVENGERS #23 $3.99 
    (W) Rick Remender (A) Sanford Greene (CA) Agustin Alessio
   Uncanny Avengers reunited! The threat of Kang is over, but what are the repercussions?  Meet the new faces of the Marvel Universe! Thor appears on the cover and in two panels on one page.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.4 $3.99 
(W) Dan Slott (A) Ramon K. Perez (CA) Alex Ross
   Witness another secret chapter from the first days of Spider-Man!  What started off as fun-and-games for new villain Clash turns deadly serious. Plus a retro two panel Thor cameo.

AVENGERS #34 $3.99 
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Leinil Francis Yu
   The first Avenger meets the last Avenger and the Avengers World crumbles. Thor appears on four pages, has one line and doesn't do any fighting.

WOLVERINE #12 $5.99 
(W) Paul Cornell (A) Pete Woods (CA) Steve McNiven
        Thor has a 1 panel cameo

Sunday, August 25, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 14 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor has been in the public-domain for centuries so every comic book universe can have a Thor as long he does not look like the Marvel Thor.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

THE ONLY NEW THOR ODINSON APPEARANCE IN YOUR LCS 27 YEARS AGO TODAY

Not only does Thor appear on the
 Ron Lim/Allen Milgrom cover.
He also appears on 1 page.
This was Thor's 19th 1993 appearance.

Friday, August 23, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

  GENERATIONS: UNWORTHY THOR & MIGHTY THOR #1
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Mahmud A. Asrar
    When a battle goes south, Thor finds herself in ancient Egypt - facing a young Odinson! A misguided party of Vikings has bitten off way more than they can spear. But when the prince of Asgard answers their cries for help, he ends up in a fight no axe alone can win! And Apocalypse is not one for mercy.  Can a not-yet-worthy god and a time-lost hero take on one of the world's most powerful mutants at the height of his empire? And what does their encounter mean for the future of two Thors?
 
Oliver Coipel variant cover
Alex Ross connecting variant cover
 

Kirby 100 variant cover
Das Pastoras variant cover
Dale Keown Marvel Vs Capcom variant cover 


SECRET EMPIRE #9 $4.99 
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Leinil Francis Yu (CA) Mark Brooks
     UNITED WE STAND - against the SECRET EMPIRE! Thor Odinson has a pivotal role. Attention Lady Thor completists: she appears on 1 page. 

Thursday, August 22, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 6 YEARS AGO TODAY


AVENGERS #6 $3.99 
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Ed McGuinness
    The final battle against the Dark Celestials. A battle unlike any the Avengers have ever experienced. A battle a million years in the making. The new team of heavy hitters assembles at last. But will the young, inexperienced Ghost Rider prove to be the most important member of all?




Plus
MARVEL HEROES THOR GEEKI TIKI GLASS $19.99 
   From Beeline Creative This Geeki Tiki stands approximately 7-inches tall and is made of durable ceramic that is top-shelf dishwasher safe and microwaveable. This Thor Geeki Tiki mug holds up to 15 ounces of your favorite beverage. 

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


GIANT-SIZE THOR #1 $6.99
(W) Al Ewing (C) Brian Hitch
Thor All-Father and Hercules, God of Heroes, had joined forces many times, as fast friends and fierce rivals...but never before like this. For in the farthest reaches of space, the Deific Duo faced the greatest and most terrifying war machine ever created...and it bore the Thunderer's face. 
ALSO: Reprinting Bob Harras and Jackson Guice's THOR #365 - a Thor and Hercules tale told by the only real authority on such things: Hercules himself!
       DAVE BARDIN DEADLY FOES Variant

WALT SIMONSON Variant

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1963


The 16th appearances of Thor and Don Blake since their debuts 14 months earlier. 
Jane Foster makes her 14th appearance since her debut 14 months earlier.
Loki's 8th appearance since debuting a year earlier.
The 13 page lead Lee/Kirby story is heavily soap opera-ish
Don Blake's rival Doctor Andrew's debuts.
Thor does not appear in the debut episode of the 5 page Lee/Kirby TALES OF ASGARD back-up serial.

Monday, August 19, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 44 YEARS AGO TODAY

Cover by George Perez and Terry Austin

Not only is Thor on the cover but he also appears on the first 5 pages of the issue.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

 KANG THE CONQUEROR #1 $4.99  
(W) Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing (A) Carlos Magno (CA) Natacha Bustos
     Kang the Conqueror has been a pharaoh, a villain, a warlord of the space ways and on rare occasions a hero. Across all timelines, one fact seemed absolute: Time means nothing to Kang. The truth is more complex. Kang is caught in an endless cycle of creation and destruction dictated by time and previously unseen by any but the Conqueror. A cycle that could finally explain the enigma that is Kang. And a cycle that begins and ends with an old and broken Kang sending his younger self down a dark path...

 GLEASON STORMBREAKERS VARIANT 


 CABAL STORMBREAKERS VARIANT

BUSTOS STORMBREAKERS VARIANT

Saturday, August 17, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 42 YEARS AGO TODAY

 
This Bob Layton/Joe Rubenstein cover delivers what it promises, an epic 37 page self-contained story (plotted by Alan Zeletz and Mark Gruenwald.)

Not only do these 6 sun gods from 6 different pantheons appear so does Hela and 6 death gods from 6 different pantheons
Plus there is a 2 page map of Asgard and an informative text page by Marvel scholar Peter B. Gillis titled A GAZETTEER OF ASGARD AND ENVIRONS.

Friday, August 16, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 41 YEARS AGO TODAY

Behind this unassuming Bob Layon cover is 40 pages of tales of Thor's early life written by Alan Zeletz, with pencils by Bob Hall and inks by Vince Colletta

And, of course, Loki plays a large role in this enjoyable, self-contained, Norn-narrated tale.

Thursday, August 15, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 6 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR #4
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Michael Del Mundo
THOR & THE VALKYRIES TAKE ON THE QUEEN OF CINDERS IN THE WAR FOR HEL!
The Queen of Cinders and her fire goblin army have invaded the land of the dead. To keep the afterlife from going up in flames, Thor and his brothers will have to forge alliances with some of their greatest enemies and seek to unlock the secrets of Valhalla and the mighty Valkyries!
Harren Hammer variant





Del Mundo proves that Thor is the god of bringing the best out in artists!

INFINITY WARS #2 $4.99 
(W) Gerry Duggan (A/CA) Mike Deodato
    As the Infinity Stones come to Earth, so too comes the war for control over them. But none who wield the stones know the truth about the power they contain or what it would take to bring them to their END. The nature of the universe itself hangs in the balance as we learn the answer to the question on everyone's lips since "Infinity Wars Prime": WHO IS REQUIEM? Thor makes an appearance so brief that it doesn't even rate a mention on the Cast Page.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


IMMORTAL THOR #14 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Jan Bazaldua (CA) Alex Ross
ALL-FATHER VERSUS SKYFATHER IN A 775th ISSUE CLASH OF TITANS!
Thor and Hercules were trapped in a realm of endless night...where Nyx and her children were at their full power. But there was a greater danger caged in this dark realm - Zeus, King of the Greek Gods! And when twin thunders met, could either survive? This is the story of the IMMORTAL THOR...and the second test of three.
JESSICA FONG variant

    GARBETT DISCO DAZZLER variant

    WALT SIMONSON variant



ULTIMATES #3 $4.99
(W) Deniz Camp (A) Juan Frigeri (CA) Dike Ruan
INTRODUCING...THE SHE-HULK!
The Ultimates search for a means of destroying the Maker's most powerful pawn, the Hulk! And in the process they uncover an army of Hulks hidden away from the world with She-Hulk at the helm!
JUANN CABAL variant