IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

THOR #11

 (W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel

IT'S A SUNNY DAY IN HEL!

But the God of Thunder is about to bring down a bloody rain! Trapped in a suburban horror show, THOR faces down an old foe. But something far worse than the Midgard Serpent is sinking its fangs into Thor's world...for DONALD BLAKE now roams the TEN REALMS with naught but death on the brain!

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IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR #20 $3.99

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

"GOD OF HAMMERS" PART 2 of 5

Mjolnir is on a rampage across the realms and leaving death and destruction in its path! Thor must act fast to save his kingdom for the deadly prophecy of the God of Hammers is about to be unleashed!

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ON THE SPINNER RACKS January/February 1967

 Thor's 89th appearance.

What the cover promised the story delivered - Jack Kirby trolls! 

Plus the second appearance of Ulik
- Mightiest of the Rock Trolls

Although Ulik doesn't appear in this trollfest splash, or the other  2 splashes either, he does appear on half of the 16 pages.

Sif 's 4th appearance and a 5 page Thor-centric Kirby/Colletta Tales of Asgard back-up featuring the Warriors Three make this a better than average issue. Both stories are continued. 

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 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #41 $4.99

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BLACK WHITE BLOOD #4 $5.99 

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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.

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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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)