Thor (1962 Marvel 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) comic books 1995-1997, graded by CBCS

Add to cart CBCS 9.8 $59.95 Paper: White Direct Edition. Label #21-25FA6B5-022 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($1.80) will be charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Don Hudson. "Armor and the Man-God I Sing...," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo; Thor looks deeper into the mystery of the Don Blake construct; Riger finds Lokis wedding band inside the cave and goes to Asgard to ask him about it; He finds Sigyn standing in his way and an armored Loki who takes him to task for breaking his oath; Sigyn reveals that it was her that created the construct; She accidentally destroyed the real Don Blake when she sought to take him prisoner to force Odin to release Loki from the tree he had been imprisoned in; She replaced it with a construct so no one would know; When Thor and Blitziana go to leave, Sif decides she will go with him back to Earth. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Steve Epting. "The God In The War Machine," script by Roy Thomas, art by Sandu Florea; Thor and Sif go to New York to prepare the way for High Evolutionary and Wundagore, when they are attacked by War Machine possessed by Loki; Blitziana is accidentally hit by one of High Evolutionarys rays and remembers a fragment from her past; She had some relationship with Billy, and when he was killed by Bristle, she went crazy with grief; War Machine begins to fight back against Loki, and finally drives him out. The letters page contains a statement of ownership: average print run 188,725; average paid circulation 108,792. Steven Epting cover. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo. "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by MC Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo; The Thing is helping Thor and Sif clear up some rubble; He is visited by a vision of Lorelei, who is still in Hel; She tricks him into going to her old apartment and getting the enchanted mead that Thor never drank; But Malekith is there with her, and impersonating her, gets the Thing to drink the mead, then convinces him that it was Thor and Sif that killed her; He goes on a rampage against them both, but overcomes it when he tries to kill Sif and cant, because its not in his nature; Malekith realizes that he must send someone else after them – Kurse. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Paul Ryan. "The Coming of Kurse!", script by Roy Thomas, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo; Thor and Sif stop a bank robbery, and appear to be gaining celebrity status; In Asgard, Kurse beats his way past Heimdall, and plunges all the way down to Hel, where he demands Malekith; Hela tries to stop him but to no avail, and he beats her easily becoming the new master of Hel; Lorelei tells him that Malekith escaped to Earth, and he takes her there; Once there, Kurse sees Thor as Malekith and begins to attack him; As the new master of Hel and Niffleheim, Kurse calls forth dead monsters to destroy the one he believes to be Malekith. Cameos by the Midgard Serpent and the Ravagers. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Scott Koblish. "Hel On Earth," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo and Charles Barnett III; Thor and Sif battle Kurses monsters until they are joined by High Evolutionary and the Godpack; But they are still not making much progress, and Thor is swallowed by Jormungand; In Asgard, Odin watches the battle, then leaves; Vizier, Bill, Balder, and the Warriors Three come out of the shadows, and agree to go to Midgard to help; After Vizier sends them, Odin comes back and reveals that he knew they would go and planned it. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover pencils by Sandu Florea, inks by Charles Barnett III. "To Hela and Back," script by Roy Thomas, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Mike DeCarlo; With the help of the Asgardians and the Godpack, Thor manages to free himself and start turning the tide again; Elsewhere, Jane sees Lorelei running away and follows her, and sees her change to Malekith; Jane sees Sif and goes to tell her what she saw, only to have a building fall on them; Hela arrives and proves her power by stopping them all; She reveals the entirety of Malekiths plan, and makes Kurse see Thor instead of Malekith; Hela orders her minions to find Malekith, but Thor tells her no; She agrees to return them all to Hel, if Thor goes with her; He agrees and makes the Asgardians and Godpack swear to not attempt a rescue; Fortunately, the newly arrived Hulk has made no such promise. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Tom Grindberg. "In Mortal Guise," script by William Messner-Loebs, art by Geof Isherwood; Thor and Amora decide to spend a night out on the town and wake up in Central Park as mortals, all their magic seemingly gone; Victor is awakened by a threatening phone call, saying they know he has it; Thor and Amora head back to her apartment to find it completely empty, and her servants gone; They are no longer under her spell and took everything for their years of enslavement; Thor is out for a walk, looking at construction sites for work when he comes across several men assaulting Annie; Thor manages to stop them even without his powers, and the Black Widow invites him to rejoin the Avengers. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Mike Deodato, Jr. "Thor Must Die," script by William Messner-Loebs, pencils by Luke Ross, Oclair Albert, and Frank Toscano, inks by Rene Micheletti, Eddie Wagner, Grant Nelson, and Alex Jubran; Razorfist and Spiral challenge Thor in a nutty plan to become Avengers, thinking that hes still powerless; He easily stops them and flies them both to a crack sweep gone bad, to prove themselves if they are truly worthy; During the fight, they actually help Thor out; Meanwhile, Victor and his family are hit by a drive-by shooting and Victor decides that he needs to hire Thor to help them; After the fighting has settled, Thor sees a drunk bum in an alley that looks exactly like Odin, but when he gets over there, the bum is gone. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Mike Deodato, Jr. "Ludwig's Children," script by William Messner-Loebs, art by Mike Deodato, Jr.; Thor and the others have been transported to a bizarre version of the world as interpreted by Richard Wagners Ring Cycle; Loki is kind and noble, while Balder, Wotan, and another Thor are all bloodthirsty and greedy of rhinegold; Victor frees himself from his bonds, and Loki just sits there staring, totally unresponsive; In New York State Prison, one of the prisoners asks the Mad Thinker about getting revenge on Thor long distance, but the Thinkers mind is apparently gone; Thor and the others manage to capture Balder, but while Thor is trying to tame his flying stallion, Balder escapes and captures the others bringing them to Wotan; They have killed all the dwarves, then kill Loki. Thor then kills Balder, but before he can kill the hostages, Thor hurls the sword, killing Wotan; Instantly, the world fades away, and Thor finds himself in his own Asgard, but it is burning and in ruins. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

Thor (1962 Marvel 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) 500 CBCS 9.8

Paper: White

Direct Edition.

Label #21-25FB61A-022

Giant-size issue; first Marvel Comic to reach 500th issue. Wraparound over by Mike Deodato, Jr. "Sunlight and Shadows," script by William Messner-Loebs, art by Mike Deodato, Jr.; Thor finds Asgard in ruins, overrun by Trolls and Ice Giants fighting for control of the city; Going on, he finds the human Aesir enslaved along with Doctor Strange; Thor frees them and tells Thor that the Loki he saw was really a robot controlled by the Mad Thinker, whose brain was fried when they were transported to Wagnerland; Elsewhere, the Enchantress has been captured by the Ice Giants and is helping them to try and take Asgard; Inside the city, Annie helps Silvia escape from the prison where she was being held, and Kim fights off some Ice Giants; They all make their separate ways to the palace, where Strange tells Thor that since Yggdrasil believes that there are no more gods, it cast them all down to Earth as mortals; At the palace, Thor finds the sword embedded in the wall; Thor grabs the sword, which turns to dust, and his full power is restored. Back-up features include a Thor quiz, a look at Thor's various costumes through the years, an Odin family tree, and information about Thor's hammer. 36 pgs., full color. $1.50. Cover price $2.50.