Thor
#338
[Direct]
(December 1983)
Marvel,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-08-09
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Mark Gruenwald (editor); Mike Carlin (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #30, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-08-31.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Thor / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Walter Simonson (signed)
- Inks
- Walter Simonson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Beta Ray Bill
- Reprints
-
in The Mighty Thor (Federal, 1984 series) #9 -
in Thor el Poderoso (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #26 -
in The Mighty Thor: The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill (Marvel, 1989 series) (December 1989) which is reprinted - in Obras Maestras (Planeta DeAgostini, 1991 series) #3 - Thor el Poderoso: La balada de Bill Rayo Beta (Enero 1992)
-
in La ballade de Beta Ray Bill (Semic S.A., 1993 series) #[nn] ([juin] 1993) - in Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson (Marvel, 2000 series) #[1] ([2000])
- in Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson (Graphitti Designs, 2001 series) (2001)
- in Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 [unknown later printing] (2009) which is reprinted
- in Chaos War: Thor (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (January 2011)
- in Thor by Walter Simonson Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
-
in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2011 series) #5 - Thor: The Last Viking (May 2013), #5 - Thor: The Last Viking (May 2013) - in Thor by Walter Simonson (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([August] 2013), #1 ([August] 2013), #1 ([August] 2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #48 - El Poderoso Thor de Walter Simonson, Volumen 1 (Octubre 2013)
-
in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #4 - Thor: Der letzte Wikinger (Juli 2014), #4 - Thor: Der letzte Wikinger (Juli 2014) -
in A Coleção Oficial de Graphic Novels Marvel (Salvat, 2013 series) #5 - Thor: O Último Viking (Novembro 2015) -
in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #59 - Тор: Последний Викинг
-
Indexer Notes
Cover is an homage to the cover of Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #126.
The new logo that debuts on this issue's cover was created by Alex Jay per the letter column in this issue.
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A Fool and His Hammer...
Thor / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Walter Simonson
- Pencils
- Walter Simonson
- Inks
- Walter Simonson
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- John Workman
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Thor (feature); Nick Fury (guest); Beta Ray Bill (guest, origin in flashback); Odin (guest); Sif (guest); Balder (guest); Volstagg (guest); Agnar (introduction); Loki (villain); Lorelei (villain); Alien Demons (villains, introduction); Surtur (villain)
- Synopsis
- Bill and Thor fight in single combat for the honor of wielding Mjolner and the alien bests the god of thunder.
- Reprints
- in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #117 (1984)
-
in Silver Surfer (Play Press, 1989 series) #2 (Novembre 1989) - in The Mighty Thor: The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill (Marvel, 1989 series) (December 1989) which is reprinted
- in Obras Maestras (Planeta DeAgostini, 1991 series) #3 - Thor el Poderoso: La balada de Bill Rayo Beta (Enero 1992)
- in La ballade de Beta Ray Bill (Semic S.A., 1993 series) #[nn] ([juin] 1993)
- in Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson (Marvel, 2000 series) #[1] ([2000])
- in Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson (Graphitti Designs, 2001 series) (2001)
- in Thor : l'intégrale (Panini France, 2007 series) #1983-1984 (juillet 2007)
- in Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Thor (Panini UK, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Thor by Walter Simonson Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Artist's Edition (IDW, 2010 series) #2 - Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor (August 2011)
- in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2011 series) #5 - Thor: The Last Viking (May 2013)
- in Thor by Walter Simonson (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([August] 2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #48 - El Poderoso Thor de Walter Simonson, Volumen 1 (Octubre 2013)
- in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #4 - Thor: Der letzte Wikinger (Juli 2014)
- in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #59 - Тор: Последний Викинг
-
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Walter Simonson
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Includes letters by Jeff Zuehike, Roger Myers, Stas Lotyczewski and Gary Hanauer.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Thor -
1.
A Fool and His Hammer...
Thor -
2.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes -
4.
Star Frontiers
TSR
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- Katie
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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