Tuesday, September 17, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY


 THOR GOD OF THUNDER #25 $4.99
(W) Jason Aaron (A) Esad Ribic & Various (CA) Esad Ribic
   Young Thor vs. Frost Giants! The untold origin of Malekith the
Accursed! King Thor's granddaughters uncover a startling secret
chapter from the history of the Thunder God! Thor deals with the shocking fall-out from ORIGINAL SIN!

R.M. Guera Cover
Milo Manara Cover
Simon Bisley Cover

AVENGERS #35 $4.99 (ALESSIO VAR)
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Jim Cheung & Various (CA) Jim Cheung
   IN 8 MONTHS...TIME RUNS OUT! Thor appears on 2 pages doing what he does best



ORIGINAL SIN #5.5 $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? Will brother and sister murder each other before the truth comes out?

Monday, September 16, 2024

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Sep/Oct/Nov 1972

 The Absorbing Man appears in THOR for after a 6 year absence.

The cover and the 20 pages of story art are by the great John Buscema, who taught many HOW TO DRAW THE MARVEL WAY.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

MIGHTY VALKYRIES #5 (OF 5) $3.99
(W) Jason Aaron, Torunn Gronbekk (A/CA) Mattia De Iulis
NEW GODS BRING FRESH HEL TO THE VALKYRIES!
A new pantheon emerges from the dusty gates of Hel - one that Queen Karnilla thought she could control. She was wrong...and now all the realms must pay the price. Jane and RĂșna fight to save the gods and restore the mortal world! 

Netease variant cover

Saturday, September 14, 2024

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!

Friday, September 13, 2024

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
HASBRO TOY GROUP
Some of your favorite Thor: Rangnarok characters are brought to life in the 6" scale! Each features a detailed sculpt and comes with accessories. Collect all of the figures in the series to obtain the parts to create a Gladiator Hulk build-a-figure!

MARVEL LEGENDS 12IN THOR ACTION FIGURE $109.50
HASBRO TOY GROUP
The impressively detailed 12-inch scale LEGENDS SERIES figures are the perfect addition to any Super Hero collection! Each figure features premium detailing and finish, over 30 points of articulation, and multiple accessories for ultimate poseability.

Thursday, September 12, 2024

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

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

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