Thor
#178
(July 1970)
Marvel,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-05-05
- 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
The "Comics Group" of the brand is covered up by the figure of the Stranger. On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
This issue is a variant of Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #178 [No price]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #178 [No price]. There exist further variants:
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Death Is a Stranger
Thor / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Job Number
- 299 Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let all heads bow! Let all knees bend!
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Stranger; Abomination; Odin; Balder; Sif; Don Blake
- Synopsis
- Thor and Sif, against the odds, defeat both The Stranger and The Abomination in battle and save Asgard from destruction. They celebrate their victory with a kiss.
- Reprints
-
in Seriepressen (Serie-pressen) (Saxon & Lindström, 1971 series) #3/1971 -
in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #4 -
in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #163 (27 March 1976) [Reprints first 11 pages of story with two pages of original per page of reprint.], #164 (3 April 1976) [Reprints last half of story (8 pages) with each reprint pages comprising of two pages of the original plus splash page (by unknown artist).] -
in Thor le fils d'Odin (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #9 - Thor contre l'Etranger (2ème trimestre 1980) -
in Hulk Pocket [Hulk Superseriepocket] (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #4 (1981) -
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 the story were only half pages (per Michel Faber, June 10, 2006).
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Includes a promo ad for Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #1.
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