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Issue Details

Issue #159
Published December 1968
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Answer At Last!"

Characters Thor; Storm Giant
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta; John Romita (alterations to Thor's arm)
Notes Romita credit based on stat of original cover seen by Nick Caputo; correction sent via GCD Errors list, January 2009.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #7; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 [black & white]; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #58

20 page Thor story "The Answer At Last!"

Characters Thor; Don Blake (origin); Heimdall; Odin; Storm Giants of Niffelheim (flashback); Balder (flashback); Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg] (flashback); Gondolff (introduction) (flashback)
Synopsis Odin reveals that he created the identity of Dr. Don Blake when he exiled Thor to Midgard years ago.
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Pages 3 and 14 are not reprinted in Thor #254.
Reprinted in Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #254 (December 1976) [-2 pages]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #7; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #3 [black & white]; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #58

2 page The Hammer Strikes letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Ricky J. Whitecotton; Robert Huff; Gavin Roth; Dennis O'Brien; Don Tyler; Sgt. James A. Garrett; Ralph Duby; Carter Scholz; Milton Forte, Jr.; John Graner