Journey into Mystery #86

(November 1962)

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American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! (Table of Contents: 2)

Thor / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Dick Ayers (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Job Number

[V-913]

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Behold, Thunder God... you pursued me into the future, only to meet your doom at the hands of my steel slaves!

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (introduction, cameo)

Synopsis

Zarrko of the year 2262 goes back in time and steals a cobalt bomb in 1962, but Thor chases him forward in time and defeats him.

Reprints

• in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #2
• in Thor (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #4
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #45 (1964)
• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966)
which is reprinted
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #31 ([mars 1974])
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #58 (1967 ?)
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #4 (11 March 1967)
• in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (27 Aprile 1971) [as "L'uomo venuto dal domani", Italian translation]
• in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #229
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #18 (mars 1972) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #4 (10 March 1973)
• in The Mighty Thor (Yaffa / Page, 1977 ? series) #2 (1978)
• in Marvel Tales (Yaffa / Page, 1977 ? series) #3 ([1979])
• in De Vergelders (Oberon, 1979 series) #2 (1979)
• in Titan Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #2 (1980)
• in Les Vengeurs Color (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #4 (juin 1983)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 ([October] 1991)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 1999 series) #[1] (November 1999)
• in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (February 2001) [black and white]
• in Biblioteca Marvel: Thor (Planeta DeAgostini, 2001 series) #3 (Julio 2001)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 [Regular Edition] (2003), #1 (2003)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([August 11] 2010) [TPB]
• in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
• in Thor : l'intégrale (Panini France, 2007 series) #1962-1963 (mars 2012)
• in Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - The Mighty Thor
• in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - The God of Thunder (2014)
• in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Thor (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 - The Vengeance of Loki (2021)
• in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #3 - El Poderoso Thor 1 ([Enero] 2023)
• in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #3 - Thor 1 (1962) ([September] 2023)

Keywords

time travel

Indexer Notes

D'Agostino credit per Nick Caputo, May 2014. Previous indexer credited Artie Simek.

This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"Flight to the Future" (8 pp). The Tomorrow Man next appears in issue #101 (February 1964). Job number not listed in comic, came from the splash page of the original art.

Weather Man (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Maneely

Inks

Joe Maneely (signed as M.)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

[G-931]

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There was trouble in the air.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay

Synopsis

The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.

Reprints

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
First page is located between pages 5 and 6 of previous story sequence.
Second page appears between the comic stories “Humans, Keep Out!” and “The Changeling”.

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Mr. Ned Mason / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Commercial Trades Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Honor House Products / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Humans, Keep Out! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Don Heck (signed)

Inks

Don Heck (signed)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Sam Rosen ?

Job Number

[V-914 ?]

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Even in the scientifically advanced year of 1975, there are still people who perform menial tasks!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Ezra Grumley

Synopsis

Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #4 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #26 ([1965])
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #16 (3 June 1967) [Black and white.]
• in Fantastic Annual (IPC, 1967 series) #1969 [2-color reprint, black and red.]
• in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #37 (1970)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #136
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #90 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #2 (2ème trimestre 1972) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #6 ([Juni 1974])
• in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975)

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Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Best Values Co. Coin Catalogue / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Changeling! (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-915

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sometimes a change can be a good thing... sometimes it can be disastrous!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

An ugly king threatens a sorcerer with death unless he makes the king "the most handsome male" so the sorcerer turns him into a swan.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #32 (1964 ?)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #70 (1967)
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #10 (22 April 1967) [Black and white, edited to bring story length down to 3 1/2 pages.]
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #124
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #2 (2ème trimestre 1972) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #18 (mars 1972) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #40 (July 1974) [p1, p2: panels 1–4, p3, p4: panels 3, 4–6, p5, reformatted; mistakenly attributed to Journey Into Mystery #95]
• in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)

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Mike Marvel System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Famous Artists Schools / advertisement / 1 page (report information)