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Issue: Journey into Mystery #83
Publication Date: August 1962
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Issues: #83 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/05/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in June 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Title Pages Job Number Notes
Introducing... the Mighty Thor!
Illustration on Cover, Front		 1    
The Stone Men from Saturn!
Story on Interior Page(s)		 13 V-786 This is the first Thor story published by Marvel. Story is divided into three parts: Part One—Untitled (5 pp), Part Two—"The Power of Thor!" (5 pp) and Part Three—"Thor the Mighty Strikes Back!"(3 pp).

The story is expanded and retold in Thor: First Thunder (Marvel, 2010 series) #1.

Kirby previously drew Easter Island-like stone-head aliens in DC's House of Mystery #85, April 1959, as "The Stone Sentinels of Giant Island!"
Discovery
Text Story on Interior Page(s)		 2 [K-479] Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Thor story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories.
The Perfect Crime!
Story on Interior Page(s)		 5 [V-787 ?]  
When the Jungle Sleeps
Story on Interior Page(s)		 5 V-788 This story is a retelling of "I Am...Gorilla!" drawn by Paul Reinman in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #5 (August 1959). This number was originally on the first story; but verified that it is on this sequence instead (2008-08-18). Script and Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
 
 

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