IT'S LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE

On sale October 4

 



COLOR YOUR OWN THOR TP  $9.99

(A) Various (CA) Olivier Coipel

Unleash a Rainbow Bridge of color! If ye be worthy, lift your pencils, crayons or markers aloft, and have at page after page of mighty artwork featuring Thor, along with his many friends and foes! Whether it's the original Thunder God himself or Jane Foster, Sif or the Warriors Three, they're all rendered here in black and white, waiting for you to fill in between the lines. But watch out for Loki - he's tricky! From Asgard's gleaming towers to Midgard's city streets, action shots from Marvel's finest artists demand you bring them to life in glorious color - whether you stick to the classic hues or make your own multicolored mythology! Why not a magenta Mjolnir? Or a damson Destroyer? And as for orange? Odin's beard, the possibilities! One thing's for sure: It'll be legendary!

NO NEW THOR ODINSON IN THE SHOPS TOMORROW

And this is the ONLY appearance by Lady Thor...

VENOMVERSE WAR STORIES #1 $4.99
(W) Declan Shalvey & Various (A) Annapaola Martello & Various (CA) Francesco Mattina
      For completists only: Lady Thor appears in 1 panel of the VENOMIZED Doom story!

IN THE STORES NEXT WEEK

MARVEL HEROCLIX MIGHTY THOR STARTER SET $24.99

WIZKIDS/NECA

The Marvel HeroClix: The Mighty Thor Starter Set includes six iconic figures with all-new dials featuring the Avengers Prime team of Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, joining together to take on all challengers with allies like Hulk and Hercules, and Thor`s mischievous adoptive brother, Loki! Each Starter Set comes with everything you need to play, including one double-sided map, a rulebook, a Powers and Abilities Card (PAC), Object and Terrain tokens, Dice, and Character cards.

IN THE SHOPS SEPTEMBER 27

MIGHTY THOR #23 $3.99

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Valerio Schiti (CA) Russell Dauterman
     THOR AGAINST THOR! When the Ultimate Thor finally goes too far, in the name of peace and sanity, Jane has no choice but to stop him. Can she quell the rage of the War Thor before he destroys the very realms he once hoped to save?

Marco Rudy 1 in 5 Rock N Roll variant cover

NUFF SAID TRUE BELIEVERS?!?!!

On sale October 18

IN THE SHOPS TODAY - ONLY $225

MARVEL MILESTONES ARMORED THOR STATUE 

DIAMOND SELECT TOYS LLC

A Diamond Select Toys Release! Prepare for the coming of the Odinson! The God of Thunder heralds the return of the Marvel Milestones line of statues, wearing his full armor as seen in Walt Simonson's issues of the Marvel comic. Swinging his hammer Mjolnir, Thor hovers above the ground, ready to repel any horde that would lay waste to his beloved Asgard! Measuring 21 inches tall, this statue's production run is limited to only 1,000 pieces, and comes packaged with a certificate of authenticity in a full-color box. Sculpted by Phil Ramirez!

"In the '60s and the early '70s, I read a lot of SF, so I'm fairly well-versed in that material. And I had an interest in fantasy starting with the Lord of the Rings, I read a lot of fantasy in the '70s. Classic stuff: Lord Dunsany, E.R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake. Later work by Michael Moorcock. Besides Tolkien, Ballantine published about 60 or 70 volumes of an Adult Fantasy series, and I read that entire series. So I have a real interest in what Tolkien called secondary world creation, one of the things we do in comics. Because mainstream comics has this large shared universe-even though we all curse continuity under our breaths and sometimes, deservedly so, as far as I'm concerned. I like part of what it bestows-a rich complexity in the material that you can really mine and work. In a way, that helps to create stories worth re-reading because it enlarges them. It depends on the writer of course and the way you use the material, but it's such a fertile field for the imagination, I think it's one of the reasons I've stayed with mainstream comics for a long time."

Walt Simonson quote from his interview in COMIC BOOK ARTIST #10

What's more racist - a Thor Shrine or a statue of a Confederate General?

(It's a trick question. Inanimate objects can't be racist, only people's perceptions of them based upon their own learned subjective biases.)

ON SALE TODAY $19.99

  

From PPW. The Thor Wood Warriors Action Figure stands 8-inches tall! Packaged in faux-organic window box packaging, this solid wood hand-painted action figure comes fully articulated to sit, stand, flex, and fight anywhere toys go on adventures.

JACK KIRBY DOES JOHN BUSCEMA A FAVOR

Just before leaving Marvel to work exclusively for DC, Kirby had Surtur burn down Asgard making it possible for John Buscema to design his own Realm Eternal when he took over the art chores on THOR.

THE PERFECT THOR COMIC TO GIVE SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER READ A THOR COMIC

THOR GOD OF THUNDER #18 features a self-contained story that you don't have to have any prior knowledge of Thor or Marvel Universe History to appreciate. It takes place over one week's time in 894 in a Viking village and Asgard. The cover is by Esad Ribic. 

The  impressive interior art is by Das Pastoras.

The caption gives the impression that Lee did not mention an Asgard Sky Ship in the plot that he supplied Kirby with.

This splash page is from December 1964. The movie THE LONG SHIPS was released 8 months earlier.

Have you met Thor's trio of good-looking grandaughters?

from THOR GOD OF THUNDER #22 

(art by Esad Ribic)

How many of their inherited weapons do you recognize?

By THOR #135 the lead strip had changed from mythology to Sci-fi.

Fortunately you could still rely on Tales of Asgard for a satisfying Dragon battle.

ARE YOU THOR FAN ENOUGH TO WEAR THIS?

MARVEL THOR T/S W/ CAPE $24.99

Rubies Costumes Company Inc.

AVAILABLE NOW!

The Wildstorm Universe Thor never appeared on panel but his hammer was an integral plot device in PLANETARY #14. A fan favorite from the early 21st Century by Ellis and Cassaday.

Coming July 26, 2017

$14.99 in Midgardian coinage

THOR ODINSON IN YOUR FUTURE

IN THE SHOPS JUNE 14

ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE #3 $4.99

(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A) Yusaku Komiyama (CA) Kiichi Mizushima
The outbreak is spreading, and two of Earth's Mightiest Heroes have been infected! Captain America, Hawkeye and Iron Man venture out into the zombie-filled streets to stem the tide, while Bruce Banner and Dr. Amano race to find a cure - and one of them will make a shocking sacrifice to test its effectiveness! Will another Avenger succumb to the virus? Where did the outbreak originate? The thrills continue as the original manga is adapted into English for the first time!

Land variant cover

NEW THOR APPEARANCES IN THE SHOPS TOMORROW

AVENGERS #7 $3.99
(W) Mark Waid (A) Phil Noto (CA) Alex Ross
     The Infamous Iron Man joins the Avengers - or, to hear him tell it, they're joining HIM.  How will Lady Thor and the Avengers  react to a reformed villain like Doctor Doom? 

MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #19 $2.99
(W) Joe Caramagna (A) Various (CA) TBD
   In part one of a two-part story, the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY must choose sides when ASGARD attacks SPARTAX!  But something more sinister is going on beneath the surface - and it's up to STAR-LORD, GAMORA, DRAX, ROCKET and GROOT to bring that deception to light!

ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE #1 $4.99
(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A/CA) Yusaku Komiyama
    The original manga is adapted into English for the first time! Time and again, the Avengers have assembled to save the Earth from destruction. But they've never had to face a threat as gruesome and UNDEAD as this one! Now, Earth's Mightiest Heroes must fight to contain an outbreak of horrifying zombies, and stop them from spreading across the Earth! But not all of the Avengers will escape uninfected...

Tony Moore variant cover.

THOR ODINSON IN YOUR FUTURE

ON SALE MAY 17

Cover for MIGHTY THOR #19 $3.99 

Art by Russell Dauterman

THE END OF AN ERA

After 49 episodes Tales of Asgard ends!!!

Tales Of Asgard ended in THOR #145.

It had possibly the lowest panel-to-page ratio of any comic series.

Full Pagers = 52

2 Panel Pages = 1

3 Panel Pages = 50

4 Panel Pages = 133

5 Panel Pages = 8

6 Panel Pages = 1