Wednesday, January 3, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #41 $4.99
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BLACK WHITE BLOOD #4 $5.99 
Todd Nauck
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS January/February 1968

Loki's 14th cover appearance. Like the previous 13 it was penciled by Jack Kirby. It was the 6th Loki cover to be embellished by Vince Colletta.  Dick Ayers embellished 5 of the other Loki covers. Ditko, Roussos and Stone did one a piece.

Besides being on the cover Loki makes his 35th appearance in this issue. 

They are not on the cover but Sif,  Balder, Karnilla, the Wrecker and the Destroyer contribute to making this a nearly perfect issue.

A 16 page chapter of a continued story.  It could have been 5 pages longer if not for the Inhumans back-up story. 

There was only 2 Kirby splash pages. The other splash was basically the same as the cover composition minus the floating Loki head.

Monday, January 1, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 4 YEARS AGO TODAY



THOR #1 $4.99
(W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel
    A BRAND-NEW, SUPERSTAR CREATIVE TEAM TAKES THE KING OF ASGARD TO NEW REALMS OF GLORY!
The prince is now a king. All Asgard lies before Thor, the God of Thunder. And after many months of war, the Ten Realms are finally at peace. But the skies above the Realm Eternal are never clear for long. The Black Winter is coming. And the God of the Storm will be powerless before it. 
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TAROT #1 $4.99
(W) Alan Davis (A/CA) Paul Renaud
An all-new epic adventure teaming the classic Earth's Mightiest Heroes with Marvel's premiere Non-Team by Alan Davis and Paul Renaud!

      A strange and impossible lost memory from his days in World War II draws Namor the Sub-Mariner to his one-time compatriot Captain America-but the two heroes and their respective allies find themselves pulled into a labyrinth of pain, destruction and madness courtesy of the Infernal Ichor of Ish'lzog!

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Sunday, December 31, 2023

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)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

THE LAST WALT SIMONSON THOR COMIC OF 2015

RAGNAROK #7
IDW PUBLISHING
Everything: 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.

Friday, December 29, 2023

Thor first appeared in comics 22 years before his Marvel incarnation.

His series debuted in Weird Comics #1 and lasted five issues.

Thursday, December 28, 2023

IN YOUR LCS 30 YEARS AGO TODAY

The final chapter of the 11 part Blood And Thunder story.
Cover and 22 page story penciled by MC Wyman and inked by Mike DeCarlo.

Not only does Odin, Sif, Doctor Strange and Warlock appear in this Ron Marz tale, so does the Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill, Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, Pip the Troll and Loki.

This is a key issue that establishes one of the continuity foundations of the current THOR storyline.

Doctor Blake does not appear in this issue.