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.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Feb/Mar 1968

 Thor's 107th appearance

    This Kirby/Colletta impending battle cover delivers just what it promises, a dynamic Kirby/Colletta battle story so epic that it  continues to the next issue!

    Maybe they could have finished it if the Inhumans backup hadn't of used up a quarter of this issue's pages!! 
    Loki's 36th appearance.

    Sif's 16th appearance             

    Karnilla's 6th appearance 

    Destroyer's 5th appearance

    Ulik's 4th appearance 

    Odin's 54th appearance 

    Balder 30th appearance

IN YOUR LCS 3 YEARS AGO TODAY

  AVENGERS MECH STRIKE #1 $3.99

(W) Jed MacKay (A) Carlos Magno (CA) Kei Zama

The Avengers are confronted with an unstoppable new menace, one that is seemingly impervious to their every strength! But the Avengers aren't so easily beaten, and when new threats arise, powerful new tools must be brought to bear! Join the Avengers as they battle a brand-new enemy...and begin a deadly game of chess with a shadowy mastermind!

Toy variant cover

AVENGERS #42 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Luca Maresca (CA) Leinil Francis Yu

THE BATTLE TO DECIDE THE ALL-NEW PHOENIX RAGES ON!

    Who will wield the destructive cosmic power of the Phoenix Force? Namor will stop at nothing to be the fiery victor. The Black Panther worries as much about victory as he does defeat. Jane Foster knows what it means to carry on a powerful legacy. The She-Hulk cannot be stopped. And the Orb has a giant, creepy eyeball for a head! Plus things get personal for Thor.

STRANGE ACADEMY #8 $3.99 

(W) Skottie Young (A/CA) Humberto Ramos

    Students of Strange Academy go on a perfectly normal field trip... to space... uncovering a magical artifact... with Rocket and Groot.  Yep, perfectly normal.  Meanwhile, WHAT IS THE RING OF DREAD?! Thor makes a brief, amusing appearance.     

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Feb/Mar 1971

 The 7th John Buscema THOR cover.

Like the previous 6 Buscema-covered issues it has 19 pages of John Buscema story art.

The issue predicts grave consequences for Midgard if Thor fails at his current mission.

The Marvel checklist synopsis for this issue:

"The saga you never expected to see! Thor versus Odin! The world about to end! The coming of Karnilla - and the evil Loki - and, above all, the triumph of Infinity! Wow!"

IN YOUR LCS 7 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!

IN YOUR LCS TODAY

 AVENGERS TWILIGHT #2 $4.99

(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Daniel Acuna (CA) Alex Ross

With the clock ticking to New Year's Day, and the world against him, CAPTAIN AMERICA must build an army to save America! Will his surviving friends sign up, or is he going to have to lead the ragtag group called THE DEFENDERS against the expert military marksman known as BULLSEYE?

   25 COPY INCV SERGIO DAVILA VARIANT

   DANIEL ACUNA VARIANT

SPIDER-BOY #3 $4.99

(W) Dan Slott (A) Paco Medina, Ty Templeton (CA) Humberto Ramos

DISASSEMBLY REQUIRED!

The richest jerk on the planet now owns the deadliest fighting machine of all time! How can Spider-Boy even hope to stop...the Toy Soldier?! Watch out, kid! This one-of-a-kind collectible can KILL! Also...the Webless Wonder teams up with Thor, Son of Odin, as a creature from Asgard threatens Bailey Briggs' friendly neighborhood.

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Jan/Feb 1970

 What's more exciting than Thor unconscious on a cover?

Thor unconscious and falling.

It was the 4th Unconscious Thor cover in 4 years.

Jack Kirby's cover pencils were embellished by the legendary writer/artist Bill Everett. So were the 20 interior pages!!!