14 YEARS AGO TODAY: the last of the 19 variant Thor covers inspired by iconic movie posters arrived at the stores.

AVENGERS ACADEMY #13 boasted the second Thor Hollywood Variant Cover by Amanda Conners. According to THOR GOES HOLLYWOOD adding Sif and the Enchantress to the composition was her idea. 

ON THE SPINNER RACKS May/June 1963

Thor's 5th 1963 appearance. 12th of all time.

The 3rd Thor/Loki cover of 1963. All 3 penciled by Jack Kirby. 

    A big story packed into 80 panels divided among a mere 12 pages (not counting the splash). Joe Sinnott is tasked with drawing the U.N. Building, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sphinx and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The first issue since JIM #83 not to have Jane Foster in it.

IN YOUR LCS 7 YEARS AGO TODAY

 AVENGERS #1 $4.99 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Ed McGuinness

    Thor Odinson, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark are reunited at last just in time to save the world from 2000-foot-tall space gods known as Celestials. What connection exists between the Final Host and Odin's ancient Prehistoric Avengers?

Arron Kuder Young Guns variant

Esad Ribic variant

Greg Land Party variant

Premiere variant

HUNT FOR WOLVERINE WEAPON LOST #1 $3.99 
    Note: Thor does not appear inside but he does appear on this Todd Nauck Where's Wolverine Variant cover

83 YEARS AGO TODAY

JACK KIRBY'S FIRST THOR COVER 

It also had Kirby's first Thor story art but it wasn't the first comic with a Thor story. Thor first appeared in WEIRD COMICS #1 more than two years earlier.

IN YOUR LCS 11 YEARS AGO TODAY

WOLVERINE #5 $3.99 

(W) Paul Cornell (A) Gerardo Sandoval (CA) Ryan Stegman

   Logan faces his most dire threat yet -- with no healing factor to protect him!

AVENGERS #28 $3.99

(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Salvador Larroca (CA) Agustin Alessio

   Bruce Banner puts the pieces together and confronts Iron Man. The Thors (that’s right, two of them) make a brief appearance.

  

AVENGERS WORLD #5 $3.99

(W) Nick Spencer, Jonathan Hickman (A) Stefano Caselli (CA) In-Hyuk Lee

   Three Avengers' lives depend on Manifold breaching the unbreachable. What is Manifold's true destiny? A dramatically posed but silent Thor appears on one page.

UNCANNY AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 $4.99

(W) Rick Remender (A) Paul Renaud (CA) Arthur Adams

   The first appearance of the Avengers of the Supernatural! When the producers of the Mojoverse can't make a hit series they call on Mojo to gather an all-new, all-creepy Avengers! Can the Uncanny Avengers survive the wrath of an unleashed Spirit of Vengeance? Thor and the Wolverine have a one-page tussle… plus see Thor in a Mojo movie!

WHAT IF AGE OF ULTRON #5 $3.99 

(W) Joe Keatinge (A) Raffaele Ienco, Ramon Villalobos, Neil Edwards and Mico Suayan (CA) Chris Stevens

   What if Hank Pym never created Ultron? Could a world survive without Ultron's own weapon-turned-Avenger, the Vision? In the darkest of all realities, can the Avengers ever hope to Assemble? Brief glimpses of  female alternate-timeline Thors!

IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #44

(W)Hickman (A) Walker, Caselli 

FINAL ISSUE!

TIME RAN OUT!

THOR DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE MAIN COVER

Avengers and the Illuminati face their final hours. The final incursion is upon us. The Incursions from parallel Earths from other dimensions have taken their toll and the Avengers stand ready to face utter decimation.

Cheung variant

Tony Harris Variant

Movie variant

IN YOUR LCS 33 YEARS AGO TODAY

An issue of Thor without Thor Odinson in it! Also yet another issue that Odin sleeps through.

In the 5 page Tales of Asgard back-up Balder and Sif search for the missing Thor Odinson.