Thor #379 [Direct]
(May 1987)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-01-27
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Ralph Macchio (editor); Craig Anderson (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #110.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Thor / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Walter Simonson (signed)
Inks
Walter Simonson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters
Fin Fang Foom; Thor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Signature dated 12-22-1986.

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There Were Giants in Those Days (or, a Discourse between Heroes and Villains) (Table of Contents: 1)

Thor / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Walter Simonson
Pencils
Sal Buscema
Inks
Sal Buscema
Colors
Evelyn Stein
Letters
John Workman
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters
Asgardian children [Hildy; Kevin; Mick]; Balder the Brave; the Enchantress; Fandral; Frost Giants; Heimdall; Iceman; Jormungand (the Midgard Serpent, also disguised as Fin Fang Foom); Kurse; Loki; Sif; Thor [Sigurd Jarlsen]; X-Factor [the Beast; Iceman]
Synopsis
With Asgard still under a mystical sleep, the Frost Giants seek to awaken the Midgard Serpent to fight Thor. The dragon who shows up, however, is Fin Fang Foom but after a brief battle with our hero, its duplicity is revealed and Thor faces down Jormungand.
Reprints

Free the Cap'n Mystery (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Spider-Man; Cap'n Crunch / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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

The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
various
Letters
typeset
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Thor
  2. 1. There Were Giants in Those Days (or, a Discourse between Heroes and Villains)
    Thor
  3. 2. Free the Cap'n Mystery
    Spider-Man; Cap'n Crunch
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Hammer Strikes
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Max Capp
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Mike Verhart
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