Thor
#179
(August 1970)
Marvel,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-06-02
- 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:
A Hell on Earth
Thor / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Neal Adams; John Romita (see notes)
- Inks
- John Verpoorten; John Romita (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Sif; Balder
- Reprints
-
in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #79 -
in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2005 series) (February 2005) -
in Marvel Deluxe : Stan Lee (Panini France, 2007 series) #1 (octobre 2007) - in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([August] 2009) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #9 [Regular Edition] ([October] 2010)
- in Thor: Siege Aftermath (Marvel, 2010 series) ([November] 2010)
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2017)
- in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #5 - The Fall of Asgard (2018)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Romita additional background figures and Verpoorten inks per Nick Caputo, February 2012. Sinnott's records erroneously credit him as inker.
![Cover Thumbnail for Thor (1966 series) #179 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1503/w100/1503920.jpg?3830239299515051898)
No More the Thunder God!
Thor / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (credited); John Verpoorten (pages 6, 13, 17 and 19)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- Job Number
- 340-Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Beneath the gigantic Statue of Heroes ride the victorious heroes of Asgard, led by the mighty God of Thunder - - Thor, son of Odin!
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Loki; Odin; Balder; Sif; Don Blake; Igron; Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]
- Synopsis
- Loki switches faces and clothing with Thor. Balder and Sif are initially deceived and battle Thor. Thor (with Loki’s face) tries to explain what Loki has done. When Balder is injured and Thor goes to his aid, they finally accept that Thor is being truthful.
- Reprints
-
in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #165 (10 April 1976) [Reprints first 9 pages of story with two pages of original per page of reprint except last page which is 1 page of original stretched out to fill 3/4 of the page.], #166 (17 April 1976) [Reprints last 10 pages of story with each reprint pages comprising of two pages of the original, except first page which is a new splash by unknown artist.] - in Thor le fils d'Odin (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #10 - La fureur des dieux (3e trimestre 1980)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2005 series) (February 2005)
- in Marvel Deluxe : Stan Lee (Panini France, 2007 series) #1 (octobre 2007)
- in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #4 ([August] 2009) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #9 [Regular Edition] ([October] 2010)
- in Thor: Siege Aftermath (Marvel, 2010 series) ([November] 2010)
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2017)
- in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #5 - The Fall of Asgard (2018)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Pages 12 and 13 of the story are half pages (per Michel Faber, June 10, 2006).
Verpoorten inking info per Nick Caputo.
Jack Kirby's last issue.
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
includes a letter from Neal Pozner.
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