Thor
#225
(July 1974)
Marvel,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-04-09
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- ?
- Printer
- Printed in United States of America
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #105, April 1974.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Firelord!
Thor / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Hercules; Firelord
- Synopsis
- Thor and Hercules vs Firelord.
- Reprints
-
in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #135 (15 Giugno 1976) -
in Thor (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #2 (novembre 1983) -
in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #6 ([October] 2012) - in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #7 - Ulik Unchained (2021)
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #4 (2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Michel Maillot via the GCD Error List, 25 June 2006.
The Coming of the Firelord!
Thor / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Thor; Hercules; Firelord (Introduction); Destroyer; Professor Clement Holmes; Otto; Don Blake; Krista; Odin; Sif; Hildegarde; Galactus
- Synopsis
- Thor and Hercules stop the Destroyer. They then return to visit Krista in the hospital only to find Firelord has entered the hospital and signaled for Galactus to come and devour the Earth.
- Reprints
- in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #135 (15 Giugno 1976)
- in Thor (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #2 (novembre 1983)
- in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #6 ([October] 2012)
- in Thor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #7 - Ulik Unchained (2021)
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #4 (2023)
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Firelord.
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gil Kane; Jack Kirby; John Buscema (illustrations)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito; Joe Sinnott (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi; typeset
- Characters
- Thor; Man-Wolf; J. Jonah Jameson; Blackbolt
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Between story pages 11 and 12. Includes letters from (and replies to) Eugene R. Sanchez, Kevin Reid, The Dunlap, Jackie Biggers, Wakanda Con Enterprises and Riley Foster, also includes a partial panel reprint from a previous Thor story, the Mighty Marvel Checklist, a small promo for Creatures on the Loose #30 featuring Man-Wolf with a small illustration and Marvel Value Stamp #17 featuring Black Bolt - image reprinted from the cover of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #59.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Firelord!
Thor -
1.
The Coming of the Firelord!
Thor -
2.
[no title indexed]
The Hammer Strikes -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
[no title indexed]
Another Bombshell Pullpen Bonus Page!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Fawzy Partridge
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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