Journey Into Mystery #86

(November 1962)

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! (Table of Contents)

Thor the Mighty / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

[V-913]

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (introduction, cameo)

Synopsis:

Zarrko of the year 2262 goes back in time and steals a cobalt bomb in 1962, but Thor chases him forward in time and defeats him.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966)
which is reprinted
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #31 ([mars 1974])
• in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #4 (11 March 1967)
• in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (27 Aprile 1971) [as "L'uomo venuto dal domani", Italian translation]
• 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 Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003)

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"Flight to the Future" (8 pp). The Tomorrow Man next appears in issue #101 (February 1964). Job number not listed in comic, came from the splash page of the original art.

Weather Man (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

[G-931]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay

Synopsis:

The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.

Reprints:

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.

Humans, Keep Out! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

[V-914 ?]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ezra Grumley

Synopsis:

Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made.

Reprints:

• in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975)

The Changeling! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek ?

Job Number:

V-915

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

An ugly king threatens a sorcerer with death unless he makes the king "the most handsome male" so the sorcerer turns him into a swan.

Reprints:

• in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #40 (July 1974) [p1, p2: panels 1–4, p3, p4: panels 3, 4–6, p5, reformatted; reformatted, mistakenly attributed to Journey Into Mystery #95]