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Issue: Journey into Mystery #86
Publication Date: November 1962
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Issues: #86 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/04/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in September 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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man
First Line: How can I defeat the Tomorrow Man when he can fade into a different year before I reach him??
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #[1] published November 1999
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 [Regular Edition] published July 2003
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 published August 2010
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #4 published September 1966
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1/8 page
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #4 published March 1967
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #2 published April 1971
as L'uomo venuto dal domani [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #18 published October 1991
as "How can I defeat the Tomorrow Man when he can fade into a different year before I reach him??" [Journey into Mystery #86 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor #450 [Direct Edition] published August 1992
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Thor #1 [1st Printing] published February 2001
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published November 2010
as Journey Into Mystery #86 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (introduction, cameo)
First Line: Behold, Thunder God... you pursued me into the future, only to meet your doom at the hands of my steel slaves!
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.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #[1] published November 1999
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 [Regular Edition] published July 2003
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 published August 2010TPB
In Issue: FlagThor Epic Collection #1 published October 2014
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #4 published September 1966
as On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #4 published March 1967
as On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #2 published April 1971
as L'uomo venuto dal domani [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "L'uomo venuto dal domani", Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #18 published October 1991
as On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Thor #1 [1st Printing] published February 2001
as "On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published November 2010
as On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [V-913]
Disclose Notes: 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.
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Weather Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
First Line: There was trouble in the air.
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #139 published October 1955
was Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [G-931]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.
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Humans, Keep Out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ezra Grumley
First Line: Even in the scientifically advanced year of 1975, there are still people who perform menial tasks!
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #3 published February 1975
as Humans, Keep Out! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [V-914 ?]
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The Changeling!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
First Line: Sometimes a change can be a good thing... sometimes it can be disastrous!
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #10 published April 1967
as The Changeling! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black and white, edited to bring story length down to 3 1/2 pages.
In Content Item: FlagConan the Barbarian #40 published July 1974
as The Changeling! [Story on Interior Page(s)]p1, p2: panels 1–4, p3, p4: panels 3, 4–6, p5, reformatted; reformatted, mistakenly attributed to Journey Into Mystery #95
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-915

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