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. |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 |