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Issue Details

Issue #92
Published May 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Loki's Final Victory??"

Characters Thor; Loki
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers ?; Jack Kirby ?
Notes Possibility of Kirby cover inks added by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, January 2009. Original indexer had Ayers without question mark.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967) [1/8 page]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (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)

13 page The Mighty Thor! story "The Day Loki Stole Thor's Magic Hammer"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Loki; Heimdall; Jane Foster; Odin; Frigga [called "Fricka"] (cameo, introduction); Neri (cameo)
Synopsis Loki magically diverts Thor's hammer to free himself from his chains. Thor returns to Asgard to find the hammer, and Loki tries to kill him with magical traps, but Thor overcomes them all to find his hammer and catch Loki.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script)
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Martin Epp
Notes Neri's only other known appearance is in an alternate reality story in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #47 (October 1984).
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #4 (May 21, 1971) [as "Quando Loki rubò il magico martello di Thor", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (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)

2 page text story "The Remedy Oil"

Characters Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustrations.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (April 1957)

5 page story "The Man Who Hated Monstro!"

Characters Karl Krumm; Monstro
Synopsis A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.
Genre horror; animal
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971)

5 page story "I Used to Be...Human!"

Synopsis A space pilot is stranded on a planet where the only available food turns the eater into one of the planet's hideous natives. He eats the fruit in order to survive, but finds that the psychic communications of the creatures are so beautiful that he doesn't want to change back.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek