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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "The Executioner"

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)

13 page The Mighty Thor story "The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner"

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)

2 page text story "The Recipe"

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)

5 page story "The Witching Hour!"

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.

5 page story "Somewhere Hides a...Thing!"

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.