Thor #227
(September 1974)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1974-06-11
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Printer
Printed in United States of America
Editing
Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #107, June 1974.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Three Against the Living Planet! (Table of Contents)

Thor / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Romita ?; Rich Buckler ?
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi

Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Thor; Hercules; Firelord; Ego
Synopsis
Thor, Hercules and Firelord on Ego
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Possible Buckler pencils per Nick Caputo, January 2011.

In Search of...Ego! (Table of Contents: 1)

Thor / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils
Rich Buckler (credited)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (credited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited as P. Goldberg)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)

Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Thor; Hercules; Galactus; Firelord; Ego; Odin; Sif; Hildegarde; Krista; Heimdall
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Hammer Strikes / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema; Gil Kane; Steve Ditko (illustrations)
Inks
Joe Sinnott; Steve Ditko (illustrations); ?
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi; typeset

Characters
Thor; Thing; Watcher; Dormammu
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Between story pages 11 and 12. Includes letters from (and replies to) Peter Cucich, Liz Greene, Tim Johnson, William Mills, Jeff Thompson and William C. Corse, also includes a small promo for Giant-Size Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 with an illustration reprinted from the comic and Marvel Value Stamp #76 featuring Dormammu featuring artwork taken from the Doctor Strange story in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #127 (splash page.)

Mighty Marvel Becomes Electrified, Hyborianized, and Ape-ified! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Three Against the Living Planet!
    Thor
  2. 1. In Search of...Ego!
    Thor
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Hammer Strikes
  4. 3. Mighty Marvel Becomes Electrified, Hyborianized, and Ape-ified!
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore