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Issue Details

Issue #104
Published May 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Giants Walk the Earth!"

Characters Thor; Surtur; Skagg
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

13 page The Mighty Thor story "Giants Walk the Earth!"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Skagg; Surtur; Balder; Heimdall; Jane Foster; Loki; Odin; Enchantress [Amora] (cameo); Executioner [Skurge] (cameo)
Synopsis Odin comes to Earth to settle the matter of Thor's love for Jane Foster. At the same time, Loki frees Skagg, the Storm Giant and Surtur so that he never has relinquish the power over Asgard. Thor, Balder and Odin defeat the giants and Loki is punished.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Mighty Thor Collector's Album, The (Lancer Books, 1966 series) #72-125 [abridged]; in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #17 (November 1968); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #11 (August 31, 1971) [as "Il furto del martello magico", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!"

Notes Advertises Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (May 1964) and X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (May 1964).

5 page story "Revenge!"

Characters Dorr Rathko; Kirn; Lycia Welles
Synopsis When an asteroid miner's partner marries the girl he loves, he tries to get revenge by stealing their asteroid, but is killed in a freak meteor shower.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Al Hartley
Letters Sam Rosen

1 page text story "Poor Oscar!--(Continued From Last Issue)"

Characters Oscar Meeker; Mathilda Meeker
Synopsis A long-suffering pushover is stuck with a battered suitcase, but finds that the case magically fills with money and spends it for him.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Continues from last issue. Announces that only feature-length Thor stories and the Tales of Asgard stories will appear in Journey Into Myster, starting next issue.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #141 (December 1955) [page 2]

5 page Tales of Asgard Home of the Mighty Norse Gods! story "Heimdall Guardian of the Mystic Rainbow Bridge! [Origin of Heimdall Part 1]"

Characters Heimdall (origin); Odin; Agnar the Fierce (introduction); Gotron, the Agile (introduction); Brimer (introduction); Trolls; Storm Giants
Synopsis Odin has decided to appoint a sentry to the Rainbow Bridge. Agnar, Gotron and Heimdall try out for the appointment but Heimdall gets it.
Genre Fantasy
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes First in the Heimdall biography series.
Reprinted in Tales of Asgard (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (October 1968); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #7 (July 7, 1971) [Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #26 (1993); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2003); in Thor: Tales of Asgard (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (July 2009); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)