IN YOUR LCS 43 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thor doesn't appear on the cover of AVENGERS #172 but he does make his 7th appearance of 1978 (his 354th of all time) on 4 of the 17 interior pages.

Written by Jim Shooter. 

Pencils by Sal Buscema. Inks by Klaus Janson.

IN YOUR LCS 38 YEARS AGO TODAY

Seems like a mismatch to me. 
Cover art by Ron Wilson and Hellboy creator, Mike Mignola.
38 pages of story art by Ron Wilson and Danny Bulanadi.

NEW THOR IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #684 $4.99 

(W) Mark Waid & Various (A) Joe Bennett, Paco Medina (CA) Mark Brooks
     Back from the dead! He cannot be reasoned with. He will not be stopped. Bruce Banner isn't home right now. There is only THE IMMORTAL HULK.

DOCTOR STRANGE #387 $3.99

(W) Donny Cates (A) Niko Henrichon (CA) Michael Del Mundo

     Strange is captive in Mephisto's HOTEL INFERNO!  His only chance to get out? Winning on the casino floor.  But remember, the house ALWAYS wins. A demonic Lady Thor with a burning hammer appears.

NEW THOR APPEARANCES IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY

THOR #4 $3.99

(W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel

    THOR'S GREATEST ENEMY - AND THE UNIVERSE'S ONLY SAVIOR - REVEALED! The Black Winter is coming - the end of the entire vast universe - and only one entity can stop it. The only one who has survived it before, Galactus the World-Eater, has come to Midgard...in search of a herald for the end of everything.

GARRON SPIDER-WOMAN VARIANT

 STEGMAN VARIANT

ANT-MAN #3 $3.99

(W) Zeb Wells (A) Dylan Burnett (CA) Eduard Petrovich

   The threat of Macrothrax and the impending invasion looms large!  With no choice but to call the Avengers for help, will Ant-Man be able to convince them to take both this threat and himself seriously? Guest-starring Spider-Man and the Black Cat!
      THOR appears in 2 panels and has no lines. Blade gets the punchline that could just as easily been THOR's!

MCKONE SPIDER-WOMAN VARIANT

AVENGERS #32 $3.99 

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

     What do the King of Atlantis, the Lord of the Vampires, the deposed duke of Hell, a mysterious Russian assassin and the secret boss of Washington, D.C.'s greatest super-team have in common? They all really hate the Avengers. And so there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest villains found themselves united against a common threat. 

79 YEARS AGO TODAY

     How familiar was the average literate American with Thor in 1940? A story called "The Roaring Trumpet" by L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt published in the May 1940 pulp magazine UNKNOWN. The 77 page story lead off the magazine and it featured Thor, Odin, Loki and Heimdall. 

    Pagsilang Rey Isip's comic book, pulp and movie poster art added to the zeitgeist of America for four decades including the Thor painting he did for the UNKNOWN cover.

The interior art for "The Roaring Trumpet" was by Edd Cartier, a prolific artist who is best known for illustrating The Shadow's stories.

THE ONLY NEW THOR APPEARANCE IN YOUR LCS 1 YEAR AGO TODAY.

AVENGERS #16 $3.99 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) David Marquez
"WAR OF THE VAMPIRES" PART 3!
    Welcome to the Avengers, Blade - hope you survive the experience! Though there are plenty of vampires out there that definitely won't, as the civil war tearing apart the worldwide undead community rages on. Thor battles the Ghost Rider.

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AVENGERS #43 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Javi Garron (CA) Leinil Francis Yu
     As the greatest heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe are trapped within the battle to decide the all-new Phoenix - a bloody battle that has narrowed to a handful of desperate combatants. Thor leads the rest of the Avengers in the fight to contain the Phoenix Force on Earth, in a quest complicated by the Thunder God's own mysterious connection to the cosmic firebird.