Issue | #90 |
Published | March 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Thor; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967) [1/4 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]; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano] (introduction); Jane Foster; War Lord Ugarth; Mayor Harris; Donald Blake; Odin (cameo) |
Synopsis | The heir to the throne of a race of shape-shifting aliens leads an attack on Earth as his rite of passage. The aliens replace officials in New York and disrupt the government, but Thor discovers their plan and defeats them. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Al Hartley |
Letters | Terry Szenics |
Notes | The Carbon-Copy Man next appears in X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #32 (September 1988). |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #3 (May 11, 1971) [as "Thor intrappolato di Carbon!", Italian translation]; 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 | Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump |
Synopsis | A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Thor story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership. |
Reprinted | from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (January 1956) |
Characters | Hans; Anna |
Synopsis | In a communist bloc country a fugitive seeks shelter from an elderly couple who grant it to him. The next day they find their shack has been transplanted outside of the iron curtain and repaired to look as new. They regard the event as impossible but their guest says he was merely repaying the kindness shown to a stranger and is revealed to be an angel who was traversing the communist-occupied country for an unknown reason and then he ascends back to heaven. |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Synopsis | Average sales per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #76–86, despite monthly cover dates): 132,113. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion". |
Synopsis | A criminal steals an advanced robot and uses it to rob a bank, but when he orders it to guard the door of his hideout an error in wording traps him inside permanently. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Letters | Terry Szenics |
Notes | Narrated in the first person by the robot. |