Thor #187
(April 1971)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.15 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly except January, semi-monthly
On-sale Date
1971-02-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Management Co.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
This issue has variants:

Father vs Son! The World Is Lost! (Table of Contents)

Thor / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Joe Sinnott
Colors
?
Letters
Morrie Kuramoto

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Truly Marvel’s greatest epic!
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Odin; Thor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Cover inks credit from Sinnott's personal records.

The World is Lost! (Table of Contents: 1)

Thor / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
John Buscema (credited) (illustrator)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (credited) (embellisher)
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited)

Job Number
545-Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mine own father - - Odin - - hath turned against me! And so…
Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Thor; Odin; Infinity; Sif; Balder; Loki; Heimdall; Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]; Odin's Vizier; Karnilla; Don Blake; Cosgrave; The Silent One (flashback); Hela (flashback); The Guardian (flashback)
Synopsis
Odin, possessed by Infinity, attacks Thor. Thor returns to Asgard, where Loki and Karnilla remove the spell from the Warriors Three.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pages 12 and 13 of the story were only half pages (per Michel Faber, June 10, 2006).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Checklist of other Marvel titles on sale at the same time as this issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee; ?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from Tim Hourigan, Spence Marshall, Cecil Hutto, Ann Nichols and Jeffrey Morgan.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Father vs Son! The World Is Lost!
    Thor
  2. 1. The World is Lost!
    Thor
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Mighty Marvel Checklist
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    The Hammer Strikes
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson