Sunday, August 10, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

 66th BiFrost cover
50 COPY INCENTIVE KAARE ANDREWS VARIANT

AXE JUDGMENT DAY #2 (OF 6) $4.99
(W) Kieron Gillen (A) Guiu Villanova (CA) Kaare Andrews
...THE WICKED WILL BE PUT TO DEATH!
As the world shakes, an unlikely group gather to find a peaceful solution. Sadly, the best laid plans of man, mutant and Eternal oft go awry.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 2 #1 $4.99 
(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A) Yusaku Komiyama (CA) Kiichi Mizushima
   Caught in a massive explosion, Captain America, Hawkeye and Iron Man wake up in the midst of a city overrun by zombies. Miraculously, they haven't been turned, and they find themselves face-to-face with a mysterious scientist who claims to have a cure for the virus. But who is he really, and does he actually possess the antivirus that Bruce Banner has been struggling to create? More importantly: Is the Hulk immune to the zombie plague?

SAMNEE VARIANT COVER

Friday, August 8, 2025

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1966

 EGO'S FIRST COVER APPEARANCE 

Ego wouldn't appear on another cover for 28 months. Like this one it would also be a Kirby/Colletta THOR cover.
Plus: a Kirby triptych!

Thursday, August 7, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

 


AVENGERS #17 $3.99
(W) Jed MacKay (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Joshua Cassara
STORM JOINS THE AVENGERS!
In the aftermath of Blood Hunt and Fall of the House of X, where does that leave the Avengers? The team's roster won't be the only thing shaken up when a deadly threat sets its vengeful sights on Earth!

     CORY SMITH COCA-COLA Variant

     J SCOTT CAMPBELL DISCO DAZZLER Variant

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 11 YEARS AGO TODAY

ORIGINAL SIN #5.3 $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! Can Loki be trusted? And will brother and sister murder each other before the truth comes out?

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

50 YEARS AGO TODAY

How do you keep a Thor fan in suspense?

Marvel did it by reprinting this THOR #134 Tales of Asgard cliff-hanger from 9 years earlier in MARVEL SPECTACULAR #19 and then waiting another 9 years to reprint the concluding three chapters in TALES OF ASGARD Volume 2 #1.

Monday, August 4, 2025

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Aug/Sep 1964

For the first time a villain from another title appears on the cover (and inside) of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY!

Magneto had already appeared in 4 issues of  X-MEN.
Those appearances, like this one, were drawn by Jack Kirby.
Thor's 43rd appearance
Don Blake's 32nd.
Jane Foster's 27th.