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Issue Details

Issue #98
Published November 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Human Cobra!"

Characters Thor; Cobra [Klaus Vorhees]; Jane Foster
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky
Reprinted in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #7 (July 7, 1971); 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 "Challenged by the Human Cobra!"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Cobra [Klaus Vorhees] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Dr. Bruce Andrews; Odin; Professor Shecktor
Synopsis While visiting India, Don Blake finds that one of his old teachers has been murdered by a villain who gained the power of a snake. Thor fights the Cobra in New York and defeats him, after Jane Foster sees her new boss's cowardice and goes back to Dr. Blake.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #12 (January 1968); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #7 (July 6, 1971) [as "Sfidato dal Cobra umano!", 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 "Snowstorm"

Characters Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
Synopsis A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #47 (September 1956)

5 page story "The Purple Planet"

Characters Dunstan Dirk
Synopsis A criminal in the future travels to a rich but primitive world, hoping to exploit the simple people. Unfortunately they don't understand the universal language, and lock him in a zoo as an animal.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Matt Fox
Letters Ray Holloway

5 page Tales of Asgard, Home of the Gods! story "Odin Battles Ymir, King of the Ice Giants"

Characters Odin; Ymir
Synopsis The ice giants, led by Ymir, attack Asgard but Odin defends it and traps Ymir inside a ring of fire.
Genre Fantasy
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Tales of Asgard (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (October 1968); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (April 21, 1971) [as "Odino contro Ymir", 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 Thor: Tales of Asgard (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)