Issue | #95 |
Published | August 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Thor; Duplicate Thor |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #5 (June 8, 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) |
Characters | Thor [Donald Blake]; Duplicate Thor; Odin; Professor Zaxton (introduction, death); Jane Foster; Duplicate Professor Zaxton |
Synopsis | An evil scientist forces Dr. Blake to help him with a duplicating machine by kidnapping Jane. The device duplicates Thor, but cannot duplicate his magic hammer, allowing Thor to defeat the duplicate. Dr. Zaxton accidentally duplicates himself and falls to his death, leaving his good duplicate to take his place. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein (script) [as R. Berns] |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Reprinted | in Journey Into Mystery Annual (Marvel, 1965 series) #1 (1965); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #5 (June 8, 1971) [as "Il mitico Thor contro la minaccia dei demoni duplicatori!", 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) |
Synopsis | A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky. |
Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957) |
Characters | Tut-Amm-Tut; Ammen |
Synopsis | An evil pharaoh has himself placed in stasis for centuries to escape his rival, only to find that his rival went into stasis in order to meet him when he awakes. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #83 (June 11, 1974) [as "La tomba di Tut Amm Tut!", Italian Translation] |
Synopsis | A human crashlands on an alien planet, and the inhabitants believe that he is a spy from the shape-shifting people of a nearby world. He alerts an Earth ship to rescue him, but he steals one of their life pods and escapes without thanking them, since he really was a shape-shifting alien. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Larry Lieber |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |