IN YOUR LCS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY

Writer/artist/mythologist Walt Simonson returns to THOR!!!!!

RAGNAROK #1

 (from IDW PUBLISHING)

 

   Ragnarök...the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology...the destruction of the Nine Worlds.  And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance.  

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And from Marvel...  

ORIGINAL SIN #5.2 $3.99 

(W) Jason Aaron, Al Ewing (A) Simone Bianchi (CA) Dale Keown
   Thanks to the events of ORIGINAL SIN, 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!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 $3.99 

(W) Dan Slott (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
   The radioactive spider that gave Peter Parker his powers bit someone else, too! Thor cameo in 2 panels depicting a key event from ORIGINAL SIN.

DAREDEVIL #6 $3.99

(W) Mark Waid (A) Javier Rodriguez (CA) Chris Samnee
   When Matt learns something about his past that's too terrible to accept he seeks out his mother only to find her in more trouble than he could possibly have imagined. Thor cameo in a double-page spread depicting a key event from ORIGINAL SIN.

ORIGINAL SINS #4 $3.99

(W) Charles Soule & Various (A) Various (CA) Mark Brooks
   The ORIGINAL SIN of DOCTOR DOOM! (Thor appears in an Avenger-crowd-scene cameo)   

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

EMPYRE #2 $4.99 

(W) Al Ewing, Dan Slott (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Jim Cheung

    Three Avengers are trapped on the moon as war breaks out on Earth - and an ancient enemy reveals a scheme decades in the making! Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four fight against a creeping horror that might destroy them all - starting with the Thing! Captain Marvel is their last, best hope... But if Carol Danvers survives, what will she become?

IN YOUR LCS 2 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR ANNUAL #1 $4.99

(W) Aaron Kuder, Jed MacKay (A) Aaron Kuder, Juan Ferreyra (CA) Travis Charest

    Thor and the other leaders of the Ten Realms (and, uh, Hawkeye?) have gathered for a World Tree celebration! But the festivities come to an abrupt halt when a mysterious guest - and his otherworldly powers - crashes the party. And his "plus-one" is a dark, twisted version of Thor who is determined to become the iron-fisted ruler of all the realms!  

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Thor (and Thori's) fifth page entrance.

We don't get treated to the first of two worthy splashes until the tenth page.

This would have been a flawless issue if not for the inclusion of the five page episode of a Thorless story. Part 5 (of 8) of "Infinite Fury"!

IN YOUR LCS 12 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

What's better than having a cover by Ariel Olivetti?

22 pages of art by Ariel Olivetti.

Paul Jenkins provides Olivetti with a well-written Ragnarok prelude tale that cleverly characterizes Loki.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS 56 YEARS AGO TODAY

DC decided that the way to combat Marvel's increasing popularity was to create a series that parodied Marvel.

This had shipped a week earlier

  

This was the 4th Thor comic I had purchased since discovering the character little more than a month earlier.  

Of course I bought INFERIOR FIVE too.

IN YOUR LCS 5 YEARS AGO TODAY

THOR #3 

(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Michael Del Mundo

UNHOLY MATRIMONY!
War rages across the land of the dead, and not even the reunion of Thor with his brother Balder can stop it!  Perhaps peace might come from the wedding of the century... in Hel! With Hela, the goddess of death, as the bride, which Odinson brother is going to be the lucky groom? And what special surprise guest is looking to put a deadly stop to the nuptials?

James Harren Hammer variant

OLD MAN HAWKEYE #7 $3.99

(W) Sacks, Ethan (A) Marco Checchetto, Ibraim Roberson (CA) Marco Checchetto

   THE FALL OF THE SUPER HEROES!  HAWKEYE's been on a mission to hunt down the THUNDERBOLTS that betrayed him. Now see exactly what happened on that fateful date 45 years ago, in all of its bloody detail!  This issue - everybody dies! See how Thor dies in the Old-Man-verse.

AVENGERS #5 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Ed McGuinness, Paco Medina (CA) Ed McGuinness

    Behold the wildest, most awe-inspiring team of Avengers ever assembled! But will it be enough to defeat the combined powers of Loki and the Final Host of Dark Celestials? And what is the startling secret of the Progenitor? Thor and She-Hulk continue their team-up

LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 $4.99 

(W) Margaret Stohl (A) Carlos Pacheco (CA) Julian Totino Tedesco

    Carol Danvers was just a girl from the Boston suburbs who loved science and the Red Sox until a chance encounter with a Kree hero gave her incredible super-powers. Now, she's a leader in the Avengers and the commander of Alpha Flight. But what if there were more to the story? When crippling anxiety attacks put her on the sidelines in the middle of a fight, Carol finds herself reliving memories of a life she thought was far behind her. You can't outrun where you're from - and sometimes, you HAVE to go home again.  Thor has a 1 panel cameo and a line of dialog.

IN YOUR LCS 4 YEARS AGO TODAY

RAGNAROK BREAKING OF HELHEIM #1 $4.99

(W/A/CA) Walter Simonson

In the end, the gods gathered together and met their foes on the Battle Plain of Vigrid.  There, so the stories tell, the gods and their great enemies slaughtered each other, the stars fell from the sky, Midgard itself sank into the all-encompassing ocean, and the Nine worlds were destroyed. In this issue, Thor hears a voice out of the past and learns that not all the old stories are true, and that the path before him now leads to Helheim, the land of the Dead. 

LOKI #1 $3.99

(W) Daniel Kibblesmith (A) Oscar Bazaldva

    After dying a grisly death in THE WAR OF THE REALMS, Loki learned a valuable lesson in warmongering: Don't get caught. But now he has a whole new set of responsibilities - and his brother Thor is not about to let him walk away from them this time. 

Will Sliney Carnagized Variant cover.