Thursday, June 27, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 35 YEARS AGO TODAY

Hate it or love it, this is an historic issue...
Not just because Thor shaves. Also Asgard drifts further into the Negative Zone, and the Eric Masterson Era of Thor truly begins.
Cover and lead story by Ron Frenz & Joe Sinnott

 


If you don't like the lead story there is always the back-up.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


BLOOD HUNT #4 $4.99

(W) Jed MacKay (A/CA) Pepe Larraz
Doctor Strange and Clea court a dread ally - but at what cost comes this aid? Hunter's Moon and Tigra do the same- but can this shadowy figure be trusted? And meanwhile, the Avengers are given the battle they so sorely crave in order to avenge their fallen friends. But in the darkness...a light?
KAEL NGU VARIANT
TONY DANIEL VARIANT

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

UNCANNY AVENGERS #21 $3.99
(W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Daniel Acuña
   The conclusion to an epic two years in the making! In our darkest hour The Avengers Unity Squad unite entirely and the fate of the seven futures decided! Thor appears for the big finale and on the cover!


FANTASTIC FOUR #6 $3.99
(W) James Robinson (A/CA) Leonard Kirk
   They were the best of friends since that fateful trip into the cosmic unknown. The day the Fantastic Four were born, they became a family. Cosmic explorers - forever united. Johnny Storm became the high-flying, hot-headed Human Torch. Ben Grimm, the hideous monster known as The Thing. Super-Scientist Reed Richards has tried time and again to reverse Grimm's condition. Each and every time was met with failure. But there was a time when he possessed a device that held the key to permanently curing The Thing - until Johnny inadvertently destroyed it! Reed has kept Johnny's secret for as long as he could - but now it's about to get out! What will Ben do when he discovers that one of his closest friends and steadfast ally condemned him to a life sentence as a monster? A silent Thor appears with other Avengers during a four page sequence.

NEW WARRIORS #6 $3.99
(W) Christopher Yost (A) Nick Roche (CA) Ramon K. Perez
  The All-New New Warriors announce their arrival to the rest of the world, which doesn't make anyone happy.  The Avengers vs. the New Warriors!  Thor pretty much dominates this issue. 

ORIGINAL SINS #2 $3.99
(W) Ryan North & Various (A) Mark Bagley (CA) Mark Brooks
    Thor makes a one page cameo for the retelling of the exploding  Truth Bomb incident!



Monday, June 24, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 15 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR has had at least 3 golden eras - Lee/Kirby, Walt Simonson and Straczynski/Djurdjevic. 
THOR #602 was Straczynski/Djurdjevic's 5th collaboration. Here is masterful Marko Djurdjevic's great cover painting minus any word salad  distractions. 

Sunday, June 23, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO

HEROES RETURN #1 $5.99 
(W) Jason Aaron (A) Ed McGuinness (CA) Leinil Francis Yu
A slugfest between the Squadron Supreme and an otherworldly group of Avengers for the final fate of the whacked-out world of HEROES REBORN.

MCGUINNESS VARIANT

VEREGGE VARIANT

Saturday, June 22, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

MIGHTY THOR #8 $3.99 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Russell Dauterman
   "LORDS OF MIDGARD" STARTS NOW!  Corporate espionage, Marvel-style. Some of the world's most powerful and evil corporations are going to war over turf.  With Lady Thor caught in the middle.  That's if Jane Foster can first escape from the clutches of... S.H.I.E.L.D.?

SAUVAGE STORY THUS FAR VARIANT

 HILDEBRANDT CLASSIC VARIANT 
Note: Thor Odinson's only appearance is on this 1 in 15 variant cover.

Friday, June 21, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #2 $3.99
(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa (CA) Stuart Immonen
The Avengers find themselves with a rare gift - foreknowledge of the dangers coming their way in the form of the deadly TRIBULATION EVENTS. But can this information be trusted? And can even Earth's Mightiest Heroes triumph in the face of cascading disaster?
PAOLO RIVERA VARIANT


ULTIMATE INVASION #1 (OF 4) $8.99
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Bryan Hitch
The Illuminati must form once again to stop the Maker from his plans to destroy - or perhaps rebuild - the universe, with Miles Morales at the center of it all!  Including new data pages by Jonathan Hickman - plus exclusive behind-the-scenes material on the world-building that has gone into this project!
50 COPY INCENTIVE HITCH WRAP AROUND B&W VARIANT