Thor
#176
(May 1970)
Marvel,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-03-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Loki Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021)
-
Inferno
Thor / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Surtur
- Reprints
-
in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #76 -
in Thor le fils d'Odin (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #8 - La défaite de Thor (1er trimestre 1980) [Légèrement modifiée [Slightly edited]] - in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([August] 2009) [black & white]
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2017)
- in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #5 - The Fall of Asgard (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via GCD Errors list, January 2009.
![Cover Thumbnail for Thor (1966 series) #176 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1503/w100/1503913.jpg?462752564547025726)
Inferno!
Thor / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Evil Loki has seized the Power Royal in imperial Asgard, while almighty Odin sleeps the fateful Odinsleep!
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Loki; Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]; Surtur; Balder; Sif; Odin
- Synopsis
- Loki is ruler of Asgard. He imprisons Thor and the Warriors Three in a dank cell and then declares his wish to marry Sif. Thor and friends are freed by Balder. They rush to confront Loki and to free Sif. Then Surtur attacks Asgard. The heroes prepare to defend the realm eternal as Loki flees the scene.
- Reprints
- in Thor le fils d'Odin (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #8 - La défaite de Thor (1er trimestre 1980)
- in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([August] 2009) [black & white]
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2017)
- in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #5 - The Fall of Asgard (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Pages 12 and 13 of each story were only half pages (per Michel Faber, June 10, 2006).
First appearance of the Sea of Eternal Night.
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustrations)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
includes a letter from Marc DeMatteis and images from earlier issues.
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