The Mighty Thor #1
- Published
- October 1977
- Page count
- 68
- Cover price
- 0.50 AUD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Magazine size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
-
None
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/1104934
Credits
- Editing
- , editor
Issue contents
Cover
The Executioner
(The Mighty Thor)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- The Mighty Thor
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Comrade Executioner; Jane Foster (called "Jane Nelson" in this issue)
Credits
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Joe Sinnott, inker
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg, colourist
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
1Featuring
- Feature
- Thor
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Thor; Don Blake; Heimdall (flashback); Odin (flashback); Jane Foster (flashback); Sif (flashback); Karnilla (flashback); Loki (flashback); Balder (flashback); Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg] (flashback); Hercules (flashback); Pluto (flashback); Ulik (flashback); Toag (flashback); Cobra (flashback); Destroyer (flashback)
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter [credited]
- I. Forbush, scripter [credited] (heraldry)
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller [credited]
- Vince Colletta, inker [credited]
- Text
- Sam Rosen, letterer [credited]
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
Synopsis
Don Blake reflects on his life since finding the walking stick that tranformed him into Thor.
Notes
This sequence is for pages 1-3 and 17-20 surrounding a reprint of the first Thor story from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83. For this Australian reprint, a text box on the top left of page 3 has been deleted - 'For the purpose of achieving total authenticiity, the following flashback pages are reprinted in exact detail from the original origin of Thor, as first presented in Aug. '62... and requested by Marveldom assembled ever since!' However, page 16, panel 9 is modified from the original panel, mostly with new text. In this panel in Journey Into Mystery #83 Thor was mistakenly spelled ‘Thorr.’
2Featuring
- Feature
- Thor
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- V-786
- Characters
- Thor (I)(O); Don Blake (I); Gorr (I)
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, plotter
- Larry Lieber, scripter (Script)
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Joe Sinnott, inker
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer [as Art Simek]
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962) — "The Stone Men from Saturn!"
- Also printed
-
Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964) — "The Stone Men from Saturn!"
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Fantastic (Odhams, 1967 series) #1 (18 February 1967) — The Stone Men From Saturn!
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Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #158 (November 1968) — The Stone Men from Saturn!
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The Mighty Thor (Yaffa, 1980?) ([1980]) — The Stone Men from Saturn!
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Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991) — "The Stone Men from Saturn!"
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Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) (September 1997) — Thor the Mighty, and "The Stone Men from Saturn!"
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Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) — "The Stone Men from Saturn!"
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The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010? series) #1 (November 2010) — The Stone Men from Saturn!
Synopsis
Origin of Thor.
Notes
First appearance of Thor, Don Blake and Gorr, origin of Thor. Job number from the Golden Record reprint (was incorrectly listed as V-788; changed 2008-08-18).
3Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- V-867
- Characters
- Rip van Winkle
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Steve Ditko, line art [signed as S. Ditko]
- Text
- Artie Simek , letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
Synopsis
This story casts the character of Rip Van Winkle as a humanoid alien who visits planet Earth in violation of galactic travel guidelines which have declared the planet off limits due to its dormitive effect.
4Featuring
- Feature
- The Mighty Thor
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Jane Foster (introduction, called "Jane Nelson"); Comrade Executioner (death, not to be confused with the later Thor villain Executioner)
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, plotter
- Larry Lieber, scripter (script)
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller [signed as Kirby]
- Dick Ayers, inker [signed as Ayers]
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #84 (September 1962) — The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
- Also printed
-
Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966) — The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
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The Mighty Thor (Yaffa, 1980?) ([1980]) — The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
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Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991) — The Mighty Thor vs. the Executioner
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Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) — The Mighty Thor vs. the Executioner
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The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010? series) #1 (November 2010) — The Mighty Thor vs. the 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 his colleagues and defeat the communists.
5Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- Filbert Phelps
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter
- Art
- Don Heck, line art [signed]
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #85 (October 1962) — Filbert's Frightful Future!
Synopsis
A greedy scientist builds a time machine to visit the future and make money, but he finds himself stranded in a void, since the future does not yet exist.
6Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- V-833
- Characters
- Jacque
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Steve Ditko, line art [signed as S. Ditko]
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #84 (September 1962) — Somewhere Hides a...Thing!
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.
7Featuring
- Feature
- Thor the Mighty
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Thor [Donald Blake]; Loki (introduction); Jane Foster; Heimdall (introduction, cameo); Odin (introduction, cameo); Balder (introduction, cameo); Tyr (introduction, cameo)
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, plotter
- Larry Lieber, scripter (script)
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Dick Ayers, inker
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #85 (October 1962) — Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!
- Also printed
-
The Amazing Spider-Man (Newton, 1974 series) #2 ([June 1975?]) —The Amazing Spider-Man and the Human Torch — Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief
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The Mighty Thor (Yaffa, 1980?) ([1980]) — Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!
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Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991) — "Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!
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Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) — "Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!"
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The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010? series) #1 (November 2010) — Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!
Synopsis
Loki escapes from his prison in Asgard and comes to Earth to get revenge on Thor. The trickster hypnotizes him to help make mischief, but Thor’s transformation into Donald Blake frees him from hypnosis, allowing him to defeat Loki and return him to Asgard.
Notes
This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pages) and part two—"The Vengeance of Loki!" (8 pages).
8Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Characters
- Sam Jordan
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee , plotter
- Larry Lieber , scripter (script)
- Art
- Don Heck, line art [signed]
- Text
- Terry Szenics , letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, original Editor
Reprint history
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.
Indicia
Thor is published by Yaffa Publishing Group (Page Publications Pty. Ltd. Division), Yaffa Building, 432-436 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W. 2010. copyright © 1963 by Marvel Comics Group. Copyright © 1977 by Page Publications Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved. The characters included in this issue, such as Thor, and the distinctive likelnesses thereof are the properties of the Marvel Comics Group, and this publication is under licence from the Marvel Comics Group. Printed by Rotary Colorprint Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Distributed by Gordon & Gotch (A/asia) Ltd., Melbourne-Sydney.