THE PERFECT THOR COMIC TO GIVE SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER READ A THOR COMIC

THOR GOD OF THUNDER #18 features a self-contained story that you don't have to have any prior knowledge of Thor or Marvel Universe History to appreciate. It takes place over one week's time in 894 in a Viking village and Asgard. The cover is by Esad Ribic. 

The  impressive interior art is by Das Pastoras.

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #5 $2.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Lee Garbett (CA) Jenny Frison

    Loki's crew (which includes Thor) comes together to crack the deepest dungeons of Asgardia itself! It's the ultimate caper - but is there one plot twist too many for even the God of Trickery to handle?

ORIGINAL SIN #3 $3.99 

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Mike Deodato (CA) Julian Totino Tedesco
    He Who Holds the Eye is still on the run, and now we meet his boss, the villainous mastermind behind the raid on the Watcher's lair. And in deep space, the Winter Soldier leads a team that uncovers the most bizarre murder of all. Thor appears just long enough to make a continuity-altering exclamation!

IN YOUR LCS 9 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS VS #1 $5.99

(W) Joe Caramagna (A) Andrea Di Vito & Various (CA) Tom Raney
   It's the Avengers versus some of their all-time greatest foes! Powerful Asgardian artifacts are on Earth...but can the Avengers recover them before Loki?  Contains four short stories featuring the  Red Skull, Attuma, Loki, MODOK, and more! Thor Odinson appears in 3 out of 4 stories and on 2 out of 4 covers (art by Ron Lim and Michael Ryan)

Ron Lim variamt 

  Michael Ryan variant

HULK #16 $4.99 

 (W) Gerry Duggan (A) Mark Bagley, Rhoald Marcellius (CA) Mark Bagley

   The HULK confrontation you've been waiting for: DOC GREEN VS JEN WALTERS  What is Doc Green's startling confession???  Lady Thor appears on five pages and Thor Odinson appears in a double-page spread of dead heroes.

SECRET WARS #1 $4.99 
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Esad Ribic (CA) Alex Ross

THE FINAL INCURSION!  THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IS COLLIDING WITH THE ULTIMATE UNIVERSE! NEITHER WILL SURVIVE! Lady Thor appears but not Thor Odinson. (unless you count his appearance on the Cheung variant cover)

Variant cover by Chip Zdarsky

Variant cover by Esad Ribic

Variant cover by Cheung

UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #5 $3.99
(W) Ryan North (A/CA) Erica Henderson
    These TAILS of the Squirrel Girl will show you the Marvel Universe's most powerful super hero from a bunch of brand-new perspectives. Lady Thor flies by on one page.

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

MIGHTY THOR #18 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Russell Dauterman

   The gods of the Shi'ar call down their ultimate judgment on the Asgardians. And where the Phoenix goes, lately so does the X-Men's favorite troublemaker, Quentin Quire! Has the rebel-without-a-cause finally found one, or will he just let the world(s) burn?

IN YOUR LCS 48 YEARS AGO TODAY

Kirby's penultimate Odin cover (Joe Sinnott inks)
Story art by John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga.

Not a good jumping-on point issue - a dense chapter of a continued story with a cliff-hanger ending...

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

AVENGERS #12 $3.99

(W) Jed MacKay (A) Francesco Mortarino (CA) Stuart Immonen

The FALL OF X comes for Earth's Mightiest heroes! The Avengers have hung in space over the Earth, a sword of Damocles over Orchis, for too long. But knowing they had only one chance to strike, they waited while Iron Man prepared. Now, on his signal, it is time, and the Avengers only know one way to strike: hard!

PETE WOODS VAMPIRE VARIANT

IMMORTAL THOR #9 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Ibraim Roberson (CA) Alex Ross

THE ENCHANTRESS OF WORLDS! The Son of Odin came to the citadel of Roxxon - to make war for the sake of the Earth herself. But his enemies were waiting to steal from him the one thing that was Thor's alone...and they had crafted the foulest of weapons to do it. This is the story of THE IMMORTAL THOR...and of the trap he could not escape.

NICK BRADSHAW CONNECTING VARIANT

SERGIO DAVILA VAMPIRE VARIANT

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