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Issue: Journey into Mystery #83

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Publication Date: August 1962

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Issues: #83 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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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Journey into Mystery #83 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #83 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Introducing... the Mighty Thor!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Kronans

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Pages: 1

The Stone Men from Saturn!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake] (introduction, origin); Gorr; Kronans; Korg

First Line: The legend has come true!

Synopsis: A lame doctor vacationing in Norway runs across an alien invasion. While hiding from the aliens in a cave he finds an old cane that transforms him into the god Thor. Thor drives back the alien invasion.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-786

Notes: 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) from base issue

Credits

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee

First Line: Before Chauncey set out for the Hotchkiss Fair, he took his rinky-dink car into the gas station.

Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-479]

Notes: 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) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mike Morgan

First Line: Our study in fantasy begins calmly enough!

Synopsis: A crook tries to kill and rob a man by pushing him off a cliff, but finds that he is a flying man from Mercury.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [V-787 ?]

When the Jungle Sleeps

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: In the mysterious unknown jungle, who knows what fantastic secrets are hidden from the eyes of mortal men??

Synopsis: A lion is given superhuman intelligence by a nuclear test. It plans to attack humanity, but quickly loses its enhanced intelligence.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-788

Notes: 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.