IN YOUR LCS 35 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 a 5 page Beta Ray Bill back-up tale drawn by Ron Lim and Mike DeCarlo.

IN YOUR LCS 34 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 better than average issue are appearances by Ulik, the Enchantress and the cover-featured Wrecker (with his Wrecking Crew)!

IN YOUR LCS 5 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 44 YEARS AGO TODAY

 
Cover by Dave Simons and Josef Rubinstein

The 33 page Peter Gillis self-contained story is logical yet 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 3 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 8 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.

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

THANOS #13 $3.99

(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Geoff Shaw

     THANOS WINS.  Thor’s hammer appears on the main cover and an unconscious Thor appears on the Jacen Burrows variant cover. Thor Odinson appears in 1 panel inside the comic. 

IN YOUR LCS 35 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 TODAY

 

IMMORTAL THOR #17 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Jan Bazaldua (CA) Alex Ross

THE GODS OF MIDGARD RISE!

Four new gods walked the Earth, called by Thor's foes to be his death - a man of fire, a man of stone, a beast of wrath and a trickster-serpent. All had reason to hate the thunder god...and working together, they had the power to end an All-Father's reign. This is the story of the IMMORTAL THOR...and what broke him at last.

     DAVI GO Variant

     GREG LAND Variant

     STEFANO CASELLI MARVEL TWO IN ONE Variant

IN YOUR LCS 10 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 (A) Paul Davidson (CA) Kalman Andrasofszky
   Nightcrawler decides to hunt down Sabretooth!  

And Thor goes on a 10-page bender!

Writer: Kevin Maurer

Penciller: David Lafuente

Inker: Alvaro Lopez

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 9 YEARS AGO TODAY

MIGHTY THOR #1 $4.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Russell Dauterman

   When DR. JANE FOSTER lifts the mystic hammer Mjolnir, she is transformed into the Goddess of Thunder, THE MIGHTY THOR! Her enemies are many, as Asgard descends further into chaos and war threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet her greatest battle is against the cancer that is killing her mortal form.

 Dauterman variant

 

Coipel variant

 

   Dauterman design variant

Deotato Hip Hop variant

Cosplay variant

Blank variant - duh

MS MARVEL #1 $4.99 

(W) G. Willow Wilson (A) Takeshi Miyagawa, Adrian Alphona (CA) Cliff Chiang

    Look out world, Kamala Khan is back and officially an Avenger! She's toe to toe with the best of the best, but will being one of Earth's mightiest heros be everything she imagined? Is being a celebrity hero as wonderful as Kamala has hoped? Lady Thor has a two page cameo.

SECRET WARS TOO #1 $4.99

(W/A) Various (CA) Chip Zdarsky

THE BEYONDERS TRY THEIR (SCARY, EXTRA-DIMENSIONAL) HAND AT MARKETING:

   These tales from across the multifarious domains of Battleworld - not of heroism, but of humor - provide a brief respite from millennia of omnipotence.  A couple of pages have cheap Thor Odinson yuks.

SPIDER-WOMAN #1 $3.99 

(W) Dennis Hopeless (A/CA) Javier Rodriguez

      Jessica Drew is a private investigator, a super hero and... a mom to be? Ben Urich and Porcupine are still along for the adventure, too, and aren't making Jess' life any easier - half the time they won't even let her leave the car! Lady Thor has a one panel cameo. 

MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE SEASON TWO #13 $2.99

(W) Joe Caramagna (A/CA) Various

   The Avengers and Squadron Supreme FACE OFF!  It's the final battle of the super-teams. But which will prevail?! Of course animated Thor Odinson has a large role.

RAGNAROK HC VOL 01 LAST GOD STANDING 

IDW PUBLISHING $24.99

(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson

     Ragnarök...the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology...the destruction of the Nine Worlds. And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance. Walter Simonson returns to comics in this stunning all-new series.

    Reprints the first six issues plus all the covers and previously unseen preliminary art by Walt Simonson!!!!!

IN YOUR LCS 43 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.

IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO

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!