61 YEARS AGO TONIGHT

73 million Americans watched the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. If you were one of the more than 100 million Americans that didn't maybe it was because you were busy reading this historic comic...

 

Like the Rainbow Bridge's first cover 13 months earlier, it was a Jack Kirby composition. This time inked by George Roussos

Thor's 27th appearance.

1st appearances of the Enchantress and Executioner,

24th Don Blake,

20th Jane Foster,

and the 16th Odin

IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

AVENGERS WAR ACROSS TIME #2 $3.99

(W) Paul Levitz (A/CA) Alan Davis

Thor! Iron Man! Captain America! Giant-Man & the Wasp! The original Avengers invade the Baxter Building and break the barriers between worlds! Will Willie Lumpkin unleash a dangerous menace? Can Thor lose Mjolnir? Will Eisner Hall of Famer Paul Levitz and legendary X-artist Alan Davis successfully channel the classic heroes' adventures?

25 COPY INCENTIVE FELIPE MASSAFERA VARIANT

MIKE MCKONE VARIANT

SECRET INVASION #4 (OF 5) $3.99

(W) Ryan North (A) Francesco Mobili (CA) Superlog
Maria Hill has made her call about the Skrull - and now all the dominoes will fall according to her design. But Tony Stark disagrees with her decision... so Iron Man is going rogue! An action-packed issue culminates in a dramatic leap into the unknown you won't see coming... and a no-win scenario leads to our shocking conclusion!

LEINIL YU VARIANT 

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #4 $3.99

(W) Mark Waid (A) Mike Del Mundo (CA) Alex Ross
     "Kang War IV" begins! The Avengers turn the tables on one of their oldest foes by adopting one of his tactics, leaving Kang nowhere to run and nowhere to hide - except in the timestream itself! Three Thors appear.

MONSTERS UNLEASHED #2 $4.99

(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Greg Land
   The heroes of the Marvel Universe repel wave after wave of Leviathon monsters as more and more fall to Earth. CAPTAIN MARVEL rallies her ALPHA FLIGHT against these hordes from space while CAPTAIN AMERICA and the AVENGERS hold the line around the world.  Lady Thor  fights a Leviathon.

MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ULTRON REVOLUTION #8 $2.99
(W) Joe Caramagna (A/CA) Various
    Everyone's favorite synthezoid joins the AVENGERS on an adventure to ASGARD to help THOR defeat the DESTROYER - which is being controlled by ULTRON himself!

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Feb/Mar 1963

 Loki's first cover!

Jack Kirby's 20th consecutive cover for JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. 80% of those covers, including this one, were embellished by Dick Ayers.           

Thor encounters Loki for the third time in seven issues. Scripter Larry Lieber and plotter/editor Stan Lee prove that they researched Norse Mythology. 

Art by Joe Sinnott.

IN YOUR LCS 6 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

AVENGERS #14 $3.99  #14  

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) David Marquez

THE WAR OF THE VAMPIRES BEGINS!
TRANSYLVANIA IS BURNING! As vampire civil war throws the world into chaos, the mysterious Shadow Colonel and his squad of undead revolutionaries have one burning question on their murderous minds: Where is Dracula? And if the Avengers find him first, will the lord of the damned be friend or foe?

MATTEO SCALERA WRAPAROUND VARIANT

MARVEL ACTION AVENGERS #2

(W) Matthew K. Manning (A/CA) Jon Sommariva

Fiendish foes have taken control of Tony Stark's armor! With Iron Man out of the game, it's up to the rest of the Avengers to keep Fin Fang Foom out of villainous hands.

IN THE SHOPS 11 YEARS AGO TODAY

LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #1 $2.99

Writer: Al Ewing  Art: Lee Garbett  Cover: Jenny Frison

     Kid Loki's all grown up and is stronger, smarter and sneakier than ever. Asgardia's one-man secret service, he's ready for the most treacherous missions starting with a heist on Avengers Tower and the death of Thor!

IN YOUR LCS 5 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

RAGNAROK BREAKING OF HELHEIM #4  $4.99

IDW PUBLISHING

(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson

As Thor travels deeper into the monstrous canyons of Helheim, he encounters a wild pack of ferocious wolves, larger than any he has seen before. They bear him a terrible grudge and reveal a hitherto unknown secret of the final battle between the gods and their enemies, a secret that has stretched across the centuries since the fall of the gods. And it could spell death-the real death-for Thor.

STEVE RUDE VARIANT

MARVEL #1 $4.99 

(W) Alex Ross, More (A) More, Alex Ross (CA) Alex Ross
Thirty years ago, Alex Ross had a vision of a new series showing the Marvel heroes in a way they'd never been seen before. Today Alex finally brings about his original vision: An anthology of stories by exceptional talents. Over this series you'll see work by Adam Hughes, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dan Brereton and more, linked by an overarching story by Alex and Steve Darnall. Not only does Thor appear on the Rude variant cover but also in the Rude-drawn story inside.