IN YOUR LCS 47 YEARS AGO TODAY

Walt Simonson's 1st THOR cover!!!

(inks by Joe Sinnott)

It was also the 1st issue of THOR that Simonson drew..

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Mar/Apr 1968

Thor's 6th appearance of 1968. 

Unfortunately it was only a 1 panel cameo.

 Words by Roy Thomas.

 Art by John Buscema and Vince Colletta.

(from AVENGERS #52)

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

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(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa (CA) Stuart Immonen

The Avengers watch over the planet from their orbital super-fortress, the Impossible City. But a headquarters is not necessarily a home, and on new territory, the Avengers are vulnerable - which calls for one of their oldest allies to come to their aid! ENTER: EDWIN JARVIS!

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ON THE SPINNER RACKS Mar/Apr 1966

 Thor's 77th appearance.

The comic delivers what the cover promises- 16 pages of Kirby action embellished by Vince Colletta featuring Hercules (his 6th appearance), trolls and Pluto (his second appearance).

There was also one of the best 5 page Tales of Asgard backups!

Nothing inspires an artist like Ragnarok

ON THE SPINNER RACKS March/April 1964

 

Thor's 26th appearance 

Odin's16th   
Loki's12th
Heimdall's 6th
Balder's 3rd
Enchantress & Executioner's 2nd

Plus it also had the 5th Tales Of Asgard 5 page back-up explaining why Heimdall was qualified to guard the Rainbow Bridge.

What more could you ask for?

IN YOUR LCS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY

  

The Bill Sienkiewicz cover would be enough to make this a worthy issue even if the 22 interior pages were blank!

     King Thor appears on 4 of those Scot Eaton/Drew Garaci drawn pages before taking a nap for the rest of the issue.

    Thor's son Magni is the star of this 2170 Asgard tale. 

    Dan Jurgens is the writer.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Mar/Apr 1967

 

If you missed THOR #140 the good news was that the Kirby/Colletta lead story would be reprinted only 7 years later in MARVEL SPECTACULAR #11.

The bad news is that 4 of these panels were not reprinted