ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep/Oct 1966

From June 1962 until July 1966 there were 73 Marvel comics published with Thor on the cover. They were all the work of Jack Kirby

John Romita Senior broke Kirby's streak with this cover. (inks by Mike Esposito)

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1962

Thor's 3rd appearance.

Loki appears on a cover for the first time and debuts in the 13 page Lee/Kirby story.

Don Blake appears for the 3rd time. 

Nurse Foster's appears for the 2nd time.

Plus Heimdall and Balder appear for the 1st time as does Asgard and the Bifrost Bridge!!!

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1968

 ONE OF JACK KIRBY'S 

MANY EFFECTIVE WAYS
 OF MAKING THE HERO SEEM OUTMATCHED...
(The giant opponent hand)

It was a good summer to be a Thor fan with the first Mangog epic. It was Mangog's 4th consecutive appearance since its debut in THOR #154.

It would be more than 3 years before Mangog made another appearance.

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

IMMORTAL THOR #13 $4.99

(W) Al Ewing (A) Jan Bazaldua (CA) Alex Ross

ENTER: HERCULES!

The son of Zeus sought Thor out - for Toranos' wheel had turned for the Olympians too, and two Gods together might solve such a mystery. The trail took them to a wasteland of snow and ice...to terror and treachery...and to an old foe of Hercules, at the height of her dread power. New series artist JAN BAZALDUA draws the story of the IMMORTAL THOR...and the Night Mother's vengeance. PLUS: PART 5 OF DEADPOOL/WOLVERINE: WEAPON X-TRACTION!

HUMBERTO RAMOS VARIANT

NAUCK DEADPOOL VARIANT

WALT SIMONSON VARIANT

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

UNCANNY AVENGERS #22 $3.99 

(W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Daniel Acuña

   The fate of the seven prime timelines decided!  Kang's ultimate revenge on the Uncanny Avengers revealed.

The Avatar Press Thor appears in

GOD IS DEAD #17 $3.99

(W) Mike Costa (A) Omar Francia 

Jesus Christ walks the earth once again.  But gone are the visions of his pity and sacrifice.  Now the world trembles as the returned gods struggle to grasp the last piece of humanity for themselves.

IN YOUR LCS 9 YEARS AGO TODAY

THORS #2 $3.99 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Chris Sprouse

 (Keown variant cover)

plus

DEADPOOLS SECRET SECRET WARS #3 $3.99

(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Matteo Lolli (CA) Tony Harris

    The war that's so secret, the rest of the Marvel Universe doesn't even remember it!  Deadpool dons a new costume?! Plus an attack on GALACTUS! Classic ‘80’s Thor appears silently in crowd scenes on four pages.

MODOK ASSASSIN #3 $3.99

(W) Christopher Yost (A) Amilcar Pinna (CA) David Lafuente
    The Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing has fallen head over heels in love with a beautiful Thor.  But with the love of his life caught in the crosshairs of Killville's most ruthless mercenaries, can M.O.D.O.K. stay one step aHEAD of his rivals and live long enough to find out who set her up? Plus another Thor appearance that establishes this series as being prior to SECRET WARS #4 continuity-wise.

"In the '60s and the early '70s, I read a lot of SF, so I'm fairly well-versed in that material. And I had an interest in fantasy starting with the Lord of the Rings, I read a lot of fantasy in the '70s. Classic stuff: Lord Dunsany, E.R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake. Later work by Michael Moorcock. Besides Tolkien, Ballantine published about 60 or 70 volumes of an Adult Fantasy series, and I read that entire series. So I have a real interest in what Tolkien called secondary world creation, one of the things we do in comics. Because mainstream comics has this large shared universe-even though we all curse continuity under our breaths and sometimes, deservedly so, as far as I'm concerned. I like part of what it bestows-a rich complexity in the material that you can really mine and work. In a way, that helps to create stories worth re-reading because it enlarges them. It depends on the writer of course and the way you use the material, but it's such a fertile field for the imagination, I think it's one of the reasons I've stayed with mainstream comics for a long time."

Walt Simonson quote from his interview in COMIC BOOK ARTIST #10