Journey into Mystery #84
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- September 1962
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/17155
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee, 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
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Joe Sinnott, inker
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg, colourist
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
Reprint history
1Featuring
- 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
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Dick Ayers, inker
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966) — The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
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The Mighty Thor (Yaffa/Page, 1977 series) #1 ([October 1977?]) — 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.
Notes
In this story, Donald Blake is able to uses his walking stick to conjure a storm without transforming into Thor.
2Featuring
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Code
- [K-338]
- Characters
- Josie
Credits
- Text
- , typeset
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.
Notes
Text story with illustration.
3Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Characters
- Sam Jordan
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee , plotter
- Larry Lieber , scripter
- Art
- Don Heck, line art
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg , colourist
- Text
- Terry Szenics , letterer
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.
Notes
Lee plot; Lieber script per Nick Caputo. The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky credits Stan Lee solely.
4Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- V-833
- Characters
- Jacque
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter
- Art
- Steve Ditko, line art
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg , colourist
- Text
- Artie Simek, letterer
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
The Mighty Thor (Yaffa/Page, 1977 series) #1 ([October 1977?]) — 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.
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.
Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.