Thursday, August 29, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1959

Plenty of differences between this Thor and the Marvel one. Possibly the most interesting was having thunderstorms trigger the mortal-to-Thor transformation. The cover is the work of Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

IN YOUR LCS TODAY


MARVEL 85TH ANN SPECIAL $7.99 
(W) Ryan North, Various (A) Carlo Pagulayan, Various (CA) Kaare Andrews
      CELEBRATE MARVEL'S 50,000TH COMIC-BOOK!
In the year 50,000, the heroes of the Marvel Age are the stuff of legend, half remembered but still celebrated! Come with us now on a tour of the greatest museum in all the cosmos, in which the few surviving relics of those bygone days have been assembled. Each piece tells a unique story - about the Contest of Champions and how it wrought an end to the Age of Heroes!
 Marvel's greatest storytellers gather to commemorate the whole of Marvel history in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration!
LUCIANO VECCHIO WRAPAROUND Variant

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

INHUMAN #4 $3.99
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Ryan Stegman
   Medusa and the Inhumans get a visitor to New Attilan- THOR! 

 Joe Madureira variant cover


MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #29
 $2.99

(W) Joe Caramagna (A) Ramon Bachs, Ty Templeton (CA) Ty Templeton
    Loki puts a hex on Spidey, turning him into a pig! Enter: Peter Porker! Can our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Ham survive an Asgardian boar hunt? Of course Thor appears!



ORIGINAL SIN #5.4 $3.99
(W) Jason Aaron, Al Ewing (A) Simone Bianchi, Lee Garbett (CA) Simone Bianchi
   The deepest secret of the Nine Realms is revealed... a Tenth Realm! Thor and Loki embark on a quest to discover this strange new world -- and the sister Thor never knew he had... Angela! Can Loki be trusted? And will brother and sister murder each other before the truth comes out?



UNCANNY AVENGERS #23 $3.99 
    (W) Rick Remender (A) Sanford Greene (CA) Agustin Alessio
   Uncanny Avengers reunited! The threat of Kang is over, but what are the repercussions?  Meet the new faces of the Marvel Universe! Thor appears on the cover and in two panels on one page.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.4 $3.99 
(W) Dan Slott (A) Ramon K. Perez (CA) Alex Ross
   Witness another secret chapter from the first days of Spider-Man!  What started off as fun-and-games for new villain Clash turns deadly serious. Plus a retro two panel Thor cameo.

AVENGERS #34 $3.99 
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Leinil Francis Yu
   The first Avenger meets the last Avenger and the Avengers World crumbles. Thor appears on four pages, has one line and doesn't do any fighting.

WOLVERINE #12 $5.99 
(W) Paul Cornell (A) Pete Woods (CA) Steve McNiven
        Thor has a 1 panel cameo

Sunday, August 25, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 14 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor has been in the public-domain for centuries so every comic book universe can have a Thor as long he does not look like the Marvel Thor.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

THE ONLY NEW THOR ODINSON APPEARANCE IN YOUR LCS 27 YEARS AGO TODAY

Not only does Thor appear on the
 Ron Lim/Allen Milgrom cover.
He also appears on 1 page.
This was Thor's 19th 1993 appearance.

Friday, August 23, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

  GENERATIONS: UNWORTHY THOR & MIGHTY THOR #1
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Mahmud A. Asrar
    When a battle goes south, Thor finds herself in ancient Egypt - facing a young Odinson! A misguided party of Vikings has bitten off way more than they can spear. But when the prince of Asgard answers their cries for help, he ends up in a fight no axe alone can win! And Apocalypse is not one for mercy.  Can a not-yet-worthy god and a time-lost hero take on one of the world's most powerful mutants at the height of his empire? And what does their encounter mean for the future of two Thors?
 
Oliver Coipel variant cover
Alex Ross connecting variant cover
 

Kirby 100 variant cover
Das Pastoras variant cover
Dale Keown Marvel Vs Capcom variant cover 


SECRET EMPIRE #9 $4.99 
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Leinil Francis Yu (CA) Mark Brooks
     UNITED WE STAND - against the SECRET EMPIRE! Thor Odinson has a pivotal role. Attention Lady Thor completists: she appears on 1 page.