Journey into Mystery #87
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- December 1962
- Page count
- 36?
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/17323
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents
Cover
Prisoner of the Reds!
(The Mighty Thor!)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- The Mighty Thor!
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
1Featuring
- Feature
- The Mighty Thor
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- V-947
- Characters
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Jane Foster; Colonel Edward Harrison (introduction); John Blandings (introduction)
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot)
Larry Lieber (script) - Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Art Simek
Reprint history
Synopsis
In order to solve the mystery of a rash of defecting American scientists, Dr. Blake uses himself as bait and is abducted by communists. He is imprisoned with the other missing scientists, but is able to transform into Thor and free them all.
Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
2Featuring
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Code
- [J-214]
- Characters
- Stan Wepp
Credits
- Author
- Letters
- typeset
Synopsis
A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Notes
Text story with illustration.
3Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- Rogers
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot)
Larry Lieber (script) - Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Synopsis
A sea serpent is sighted and causes panic, drawing a military response culminating in a nuclear strike. The serpent retreats beneath the surface, but a reporter that communicated with it explains that it was a harmless lost alien child. And if that's the child, how big will the parents be?
4Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Characters
- Carl Cragg
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
The Mighty Thor (Yaffa/Page, 1977 series) #2 (June 1978) — The Man on the Endless Stairway
Synopsis
A fugitive runs up a staircase to hide from police, but when he runs back down the staircase descends into hell.
Notes
Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
Notes
Distributed to newstands in October 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.