IN YOUR LCS 48 YEARS AGO TODAY

If you had been reading THOR for more than 8 years and you did not investigate beyond the copy-heavy Rich Buckler cover...

you wouldn't have known, until you started reading it, that you were buying a reprint of this Kirby-covered issue..

Minus 2 of the Jack Kirby/Vince Colletta splash pages including this one.

Three years larer you might have thought that you were having an acid flashback when you saw this page as a black light poster in your local Head Shop!

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

 ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 2 #2 $4.99  

(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A) Yusaku Komiyama (CA) Kiichi Mizushima
    No one is immune to the zombie virus - not even the Hulk! The Avengers face off against their strongest teammates while the race to find a cure continues. As the virus spreads across New York and among the Avengers, new information comes to light about Dr. Toshiko Amano, Jasper Scott and the interstellar origins of the zombie plague. Is it too late to stop it from spreading further? Printed in black-and-white in the original right-to-left reading orientation.

 

 Da Silva variant cover

GWENPOOL #20 $3.99

(W) Christopher Hastings (A/CA) Gurihiru

   Gwen Poole mysteriously escaped from our universe to join the Marvel Universe!  And her knowledge of comics has allowed her manipulate the very panels she walks in! Lady Thor appears on 1 micro-page.

UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #24 $3.99

(W) Ryan North (A/CA) Erica Henderson

 Squirrel Girl, Nancy and Tippy are trapped in the Savage Land! Good thing there're only regular dinosaurs there and not, for example, a giant metal killer-dinosaur version of Ultron instead!!  Sorry, I'm just getting word that there is, in fact, a giant metal killer-dinosaur version of Ultron here, and Squirrel Girl needs to stop him before he takes over the world - a task that has regularly bested many other super heroes, including the Avengers themselves! Oh, also Kraven the Hunter is in this issue too!  Thor Odinson appears in 2 panels.

THOR LEGENDS 6IN ACTION FIGURES $22.99 each
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MARVEL LEGENDS 12IN THOR ACTION FIGURE $109.50
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ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1970

Not only is the cover drawn by the legendary John Buscema, so are the 19 story pages.

Thor delivers a previous issue recap monolog 

so that panel 3 of page 4 will make sense to the readers.

Doctor Blake reaches out to investigative journalist Harris Hobbs, who visited Asgard 5 years earlier in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #123

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

 

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1 (OF 5) $4.99

(W) Steve Orlando (A) Smith, Cory (CA) Leinil Yu

RETURN TO AVENGERS MANSION!

When vampires attacked, a ragtag group of volunteer Avengers changed the tide of battle. And in the aftermath, Captain America has formed the Avengers Emergency Response Squad! Steve's handpicked team of veterans and newcomers live and train in Avengers Mansion, and when Captain America sounds the mission horn, whoever's on base has seconds to pack up and deploy. When the Red Skull's daughter discovers a dangerous artifact, Cap, Wasp, Photon and Shang-Chi set out to stop her - while Hawkeye hosts a poker game for the late arrivals.  

WRAPAROUND MARVEL STUDIOS variant 

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1969

The second issue of THOR to have a John Romita cover.

After a monolog recap Thor spends THOR #170 engaged in battle with a giant robot that Lee/Kirby created in the previous issue. The Warriors Three assist him. 

Plus there is a 2 page sequence "many worlds away" featuring Karnilla and Loki having a non-violent spat. One of the rare issues that doesn't introduce any new characters.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1968

If you hadn't read JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83  or  MARVEL TALES #1, it was your lucky day. Thor's origin was available for the third time.

Even if you had, it was still worth 12 cents to experience the 7 brand new pages of Kirby Thor art that bookended the reprint. This one was my personal favorite.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct 1965

Odin's 32nd appearance. His 4th on a cover.
Absorbing Man's 5th appearance. His 4th on a cover
It is the first time they appear together on a cover.

All the covers they appeared on were by Jack Kirby

PLUS: Thor deals harshly with an investigative reporter!

Visuals by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta