(September 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Executioner
The Mighty Thor / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Comrade Executioner; Jane Foster (called "Jane Nelson" in this issue)
- Reprints:
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1951 series) #179 (Agosto 31 de 1963)
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966) [1/8 page] which is reprinted
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([November] 2010)
- in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #2 (25 February 1967)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 ([October] 1991)
- in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([August 11] 2010) [TPB]
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([November] 2010)
- in Thor: Whosoever Wields This Hammer (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (June 2011)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003)
The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
The Mighty Thor / comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Jane Foster (introduction, called "Jane Nelson"); Comrade Executioner (death, not to be confused with the later Thor villain Executioner)
- Synopsis:
- Dr. Blake joins a medical mission to a South American country wracked with civil war. The leader of the communist faction — the Executioner — orders an attack on the doctors, and Blake must use the power of Thor to save his colleagues and defeat the communists.
- Reprints:
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1951 series) #179 (Agosto 31 de 1963)
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966)
- in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #2 (25 February 1967)
- in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #1 (Aprile 1971) [as "Thor contro l'Esecutore", Italian translation]
- in The Marvel Saga (Marvel, 1985 series) #4 (March 1986) [excerpts]
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 ([October] 1991)
- in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([August 11] 2010) [TPB]
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([November] 2010)
- in Thor: Whosoever Wields This Hammer (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (June 2011)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003)
Indexer Notes
In this story, Donald Blake is able to uses his walking stick to conjure a storm without transforming into Thor.
The Recipe
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- [K-338]
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Josie
- Synopsis:
- A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
- Reprints:
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Witching Hour!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Sam Jordan
- Synopsis:
- A criminal flees to a foreign country, where people still believe in witches. He convinces a woman that he meets on the train to pretend to be a witch so that he can extort money from villagers as a fake witch hunter, but when he refuses to split the loot the woman reveals that she really is a witch and sends him floating into outer space.
- Reprints:
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1951 series) #179 (Agosto 31 de 1963)
Indexer Notes
Script credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
Somewhere Hides a...Thing!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek ?
- Job Number:
- V-833
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Jacque
- Synopsis:
- A dying man in the Arctic claims that he saw an alien land. His friends search for alien, but they don’t realize that an iceberg is its disguised space ship, and think it was a hallucination. The alien leaves, since humanity is too primitive for comment.
- Reprints:
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1951 series) #179 (Agosto 31 de 1963)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
The Mighty Thor -
2.
The Recipe
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3.
The Witching Hour!
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4.
Somewhere Hides a...Thing!
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