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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published January 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Terrible Vengeance of Loki!"

Characters Thor; Loki; Odin
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #5 (18 March 1967); in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967) [1/8 page]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and 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 Vengeance of Loki!"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Loki; Jane Foster; Odin (cameo); Heimdall (cameo)
Synopsis Loki discovers Thor’s secret identity and separates him from his hammer, forcing him to remain a human. Loki torments humanity, but Dr. Blake tricks him into allowing him to regain the hammer and become Thor, defeating Loki and returning him to Asgard.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Art Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967); in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #5 (18 March 1967); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (April 27, 1971) [as "La vendetta di Loki!", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; 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 "Masquerade"

Characters Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
Synopsis A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955)

5 page story "Behind Locked Doors!"

Synopsis A Soviet spy attempts to get American factory workers to strike by acts of sabotage and by convincing them that working conditions are unsafe. He doesn't reckon with the machines, which are "Made in America", coming to life with a mind of their own and taking matters in their own hands in order to deal with him.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek ?
Notes Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.

5 page story "Long Live the Queen!"

Characters Phareeta; Asmara
Synopsis An impatient successor in ancient Egypt attempts to poison the queen, but is caught and sentenced to death. She bribes a sorceror to cast a spell to reincarnate her as a queen, and she is reborn as a queen bee.
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.
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #94 (November 12, 1974) [as "Lunga vita alla regina!", Italian translation]