Issue | #84 |
Published | September 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Thor [Donald Blake]; Comrade Executioner; Jane Foster (called "Jane Nelson" in this issue) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966) [1/8 page]; in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #2 (25 February 1967); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010) |
Characters | Thor [Donald Blake]; Jane Foster (introduction, called "Jane Nelson"); Comrade Executioner (death, not to be confused with the later Thor villain Executioner) |
Synopsis | Dr. Blake joins a medical mission to a South American country wracked with civil war. The leader of the communist faction—the Executioner—orders an attack on the doctors, and Blake must use the power of Thor to save is colleagues and defeat the communists. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | In this story, Donald Blake is able to uses his walking stick to conjure a storm without transforming into Thor. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966); in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #2 (25 February 1967); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #1 (April 1971) [as "Thor contro l'Esecutore", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black and white] (2001); in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010) |
Characters | Josie |
Synopsis | A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956) |
Characters | Sam Jordan |
Synopsis | A criminal flees to a foreign country, where people still believe in witches. He convinces a woman that he meets on the train to pretend to be a witch so that he can extort money from villagers as a fake witch hunter, but when he refuses to split the loot the woman reveals that she really is a witch and sends him floating into outer space. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Script credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky. |
Characters | Jacque |
Synopsis | A dying man in the Arctic claims that he saw an alien land. His friends search for alien, but they don’t realize that an iceberg is its disguised space ship, and think it was a hallucination. The alien leaves, since humanity is too primitive for comment. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek ? |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky. |