Tuesday, April 2, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Apr/May 1963

Thor's 11th appearance in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY introduced Radioactive Man, a Stan Lee-Robert Bernstein-Jack Kirby creation (Dick Ayers embellished the 13 page story and the Kirby cover)

Radioactive Man would appear in 4 issues of the AVENGERS over the next 6 years.

Monday, April 1, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 9 YEARS AGO TODAY


AVENGERS ULTRON FOREVER #1 $4.99   
(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Alan Davis, Mark Farmer
PART 1 OF 3 - 
   500 years into the future, Ultron has won. Humanity is all but extinct - dead or enslaved by the Ultron Singularity.  Now, seven Avengers are brought through time by Doctor Doom to battle the machine god for the fate of the cosmos or die trying! Thor is 2 of the 7 Avengers!
MIKE MCKONE VARIANT COVER
SKOTTIE YOUNG VARIANT COVER


 
AVENGERS MILLENNIUM #1 $3.99
(W) Mike Costa (A) Carmine DiGiandomenico (CA) Leinil Francis Yu
   At a secret Hydra installation hidden away in rural Japan, the Avengers discover a time-portal that sends them on an adventure that spans millennia. 
     THOR APPEARS ONLY ON THE COVER!

Sunday, March 31, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Mar/Apr 1969

 PLUTO'S BACK!
Pluto's 6th appearance but only the 3rd time he made the cover (all drawn by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta)
Thor's 4th 1969 appearance, 125th of all time.
Sif's 3rd 1969 appearance, 26th of all time.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

from IDW
RAGNAROK #8
script, art and cover by Walter Simonson
With his dead child behind him, and a thousand burning demons before, the Black Elf assassin, Regn, fights furiously alongside Thor, so that after the battle, he and he alone can kill the God of Thunder.
Mike Mignola subscription variant

from MARVEL

CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #7 $5.99
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Daniel Acuña (CA) Alex Ross
  Since World War II, Steve Rogers has wielded his shield against unspeakable odds. When he fell, Bucky Barnes picked it up. When it was time to rest, he handed it to Sam Wilson. But now Steve will be asked to wield it one last time, against a foe so deadly it could very well be his final stand. Thor Odinson appears on one page as an example of a hero that "inspired" Steve Rogers.

Friday, March 29, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

 
AVENGERS BEYOND #1 $3.99
(W) Derek Landy (A/CA) Greg Land
Someone has been manipulating the Avengers for the past several months, altering the very fabric of reality in an attempt to prepare the planet for a threat that could destroy everything. Here, now, this unseen individual is to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from the shadows and into the light - and is revealed as the Beyonder! Something big is coming to the Marvel Universe...
50 COPY INCENTIVE GARBETT VARIANT

GREG LAND VARIANT


THOR #32 $3.99
(W) Donny Cates (A) Juan Gedeon (CA) Nic Klein
THOR VS. DOCTOR DOOM! It's THOR against DOOM in a battle of wits, morals and, of course-might! Doom's latest plot lies deep in Asgard's history. And nothing, not even time itself, will stop him from getting what he wants-except maybe for Thor, who must pursue him to protect reality itself!
MAHMUD ASRAR INFINITY SAGA PHASE 3 VARIANT

NICK BRADSHAW VARIANT

Thursday, March 28, 2024

NEW THOR IN YOUR LCS 6 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #686 $3.99
(W) Mark Waid & Various (A) Paco Medina (CA) Mark Brooks
    NO SURRENDER Part 12 As Wonder Man struggles to get through to the Hulk, the Black Order attacks Avengers HQ! The grand cosmic game comes to its shocking conclusion - but the war for Earth is just beginning! Lady Thor is not on the cover but she does have a large part inside.

BEN REILLY SCARLET SPIDER #16 $3.99
(W) Peter David (A) Will Sliney (CA) Khary Randolph
   DAMNATION TIE-IN!  Ben Reilly is the Spider-Man who can't die - the only spider to slip through Mephisto's grasp time and again. But even the Scarlet Spider cannot avoid DAMNATION. Demon Lady Thor appears on one page (in a group shot of the Demon Avengers).

OLD MAN HAWKEYE #3 $3.99 
OLIVIER COIPEL MIGHTY THOR VARIANT
WARNING: NO THORS APPEAR INSIDE
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #598 $3.99 
DALE KEOWN MIGHTY THOR VARIANT
WARNING: NO THORS APPEAR INSIDE
DAREDEVIL #600 $5.99  
YU MIGHTY THOR VARIANT
WARNING: NO THORS APPEAR INSIDE
BLACK PANTHER #171 $3.99 
NICK BRADSHAW MIGHTY THOR VARIANT
WARNING: NO THORS APPEAR INSIDE
THOR VS HULK TP CHAMPIONS OF UNIVERSE $14.99
(W) Jeremy Whitley (A) Simone Buonfantino, Alti Firmansyah (CA) Dan Mora
     An Elder of the Universe has come to Earth, and he means to battle our planet's strongest hero. But will Thor and Hulk ever agree on which one of them that is? Asgard's Avenger and the green goliath will have to run a gauntlet of impossible challenges to prove their worthiness to face down this cosmic menace - but what's really waiting for them at the finish line? And can even the two mightiest heroes on the planet smash their way out of this one? 
       This is a digital-original comic in print for the first time.


Wednesday, March 27, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 34 YEARS AGO TODAY

Ron Frenz channels his inner Kirby!!! 
Embellished by the great Joe Sinnott !!!