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Issue Details

Issue #107
Published August 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Grey Gargoyle!"

Characters Thor; Grey Gargoyle [Paul Duval]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Reprinted in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (September 14, 1971); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

18 page The Mighty Thor story "When the Grey Gargoyle Strikes!"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Grey Gargoyle [Paul Duval] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster
Synopsis A scientist accidentally gains the power to turn himself into living stone, and to turn others into stone statues. He comes to New York to attack Thor, hoping to gain the secret of immortality. As Don Blake, Thor tricks him into falling into the river, and his stone body sinks to the bottom.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #20 (May 1969); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (September 14, 1971) [as "Quando Gargoyle colpisce", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!"

Notes Advertises Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964) and Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964). Printed between the pages of the Thor story.

1 page text story "Traveling Sam"

Characters Sam Craig
Synopsis A bookkeeper gives up his fantasies of travel and goes back to handball after a strange encounter with two Indian magicians.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Continues in next issue. Printed between Thor and Tales of Asgard.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (June 1956) [page 1]

5 page Tales of Asgard Home of the Mighty Norse Gods! story "Balder Must Die! [Origin of Balder Part 2]"

Characters Balder; Loki; Karnilla (introduction, un-named in this story); Haag (un-named in this story)
Synopsis Loki forces the Norn Queen to tell him of Balder's weakness to mistletoe and tries to kill him with a mistletoe dart, but the Norn Queen herself stops him.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Haag is not named until Thor (Marvel, 1965 series) #165 (June 1969).
Reprinted in Thor Annual (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (January 1971); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #8 (July 20, 1971) [as "Balder...deve morire!", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Thor: Tales of Asgard (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (August 2009); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)