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Issue Details

Issue #148
Published January 1968
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Pounding Power of the Wrecker!"

Characters Thor; Sif; Balder; The Wrecker
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta (see notes)
Notes Per Nick Caputo, "Thor and Asgardians altered on cover by either John Romita or Marie Severin and John Verpoorten, as observed from the original art and stats of unaltered Kirby/Colletta cover published in Marvel Italia," submitted via GCD Errors list, January 2009.
Reprinted in Marvel Spectacular (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (November 1975) [alteration of caption and word balloon added]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #6; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 [black & white]

16 page Thor story "Let There Be... Chaos!"

Characters Thor; Loki; Balder; Sif; Odin; The Wrecker (introduction)(origin); The Norn Queen [Karnilla]; Spider-Man (cameo on television)
Synopsis All the Asgardians on earth have their powers removed by Odin. Loki, trying to get power from Karnilla, accidentally creates the Wrecker who attacks Thor.
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Page 2, panels 2-4 of page 5, page 6, and panel 6 of page 7 is not reprinted in the Marvel Spectacular #19 reprint.
Reprinted in Marvel Spectacular (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (November 1975) [-3 pages]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #6; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 [black & white]; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #47

5 page Inhumans story "...And Finally: Black Bolt!"

Characters Black Bolt (origin); Agon (Black Bolt's father) (introduction); Rynda (Black Bolt's mother) (introduction)
Synopsis Agon and Rynda have altered their infant son's genetic pattern to give him the powers of levitation and electron manipulation, but they discover that he has a more dangerous and destructive power in his voice.
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Origin of the Inhumans Part 3.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #124 (February 1981); in Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans (Marvel, 2009 series) #1; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #47

1 page The Hammer Strikes letters page

Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Jack Kirby (2 illustrations)
Inks Vince Colletta (2 illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Rick Wood; Michael Cornell; the Whiz Book Store; Richard Paulenich