| Issue | #86 |
| Published | November 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Thor; Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966) [1/8 page]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Thor (Marvel, 1966 series #450 (August 1992); in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #4 (11 March 1967); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010) |
| Characters | Thor [Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (cameo) |
| Synopsis | Zarrko of the year 2262 goes back in time and steals a cobalt bomb in 1962, but Thor chases him forward in time and defeats him. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"Flight to the Future" (8 pp). The Tomorrow Man next appears in issue #101 (February 1964). Job number not listed in comic, came from the splash page of the original art. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #4 (11 March 1967); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (April 27, 1971) [as "L'uomo venuto dal domani", Italian translation]; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 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) |
| Characters | Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay |
| Synopsis | The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky. |
| Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Ezra Grumley |
| Synopsis | Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Reprinted | in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975) |
| Synopsis | An ugly king threatens a sorcerer with death unless he makes the king "the most handsome male" so the sorcerer turns him into a swan. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek ? |
| Reprinted | in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #40 (July 1974) [p1, p2: panels 1–4, p3, p4: panels 3, 4–6, p5, reformatted] |