Sunday, January 7, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1963

Thor Odinson's 8th Marvel appearance. Like all of  his previous appearances, it was in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and had a Jack Kirby cover.

That was Kirby's sole contribution to the issue

Carbon-Copy Man's first appearance. His second appearance wouldn't be until 25 years later in X-FACTOR.

Doctor Blake's 8th appearance
Nurse Foster's 7th appearance
Odin's 5th appearance.

Saturday, January 6, 2024

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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Friday, January 5, 2024

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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Thursday, January 4, 2024

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. 

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #41 $4.99
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BLACK WHITE BLOOD #4 $5.99 
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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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PLUS!  
THOR #1 TRADING CARDS - free at participating stores!