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Issue: Journey into Mystery #84
Publication Date: September 1962
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Issues: #84 of 125 Issues (181 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: 07/03/1962
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: Distributed to newstands in July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In27
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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The Executioner

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Comrade Executioner; Jane Foster (called "Jane Nelson" in this issue)
First Line: How can I do what I must, without revealing my most precious secret??
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #[1] [unnamed variant] published November 1999
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 published January 2010TPB
In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #179 published August 1963
as El Poderoso Thor Capturado por el Verdugo [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #3 published July 1966
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1/8 page
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #2 published February 1967
as The Executioner! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #18 published October 1991
as Featuring: The Mighty Thor, Captured By "The Executioner" [Journey into Mystery #84] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Thor #1 [1st Printing] published February 2001
as Featuring: the Mighty Thor, Captured by "The Executioner" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Direct] published January 2010
as Journey Into Mystery #84 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor: Whosoever Wields This Hammer #1 published June 2011
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #38 published ?
as The Executioner [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Jane Foster (introduction, called "Jane Nelson"); Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Jones son (Patient); American Doctors; Comrade Executioner (death, not to be confused with the later Thor villain Executioner); Executioner's Air Force; Executioner's Army; Democratic Fraction Army
First Line: Only I and my hammer stand between the Executioner's legions and... disaster!
Synopsis: Dr. Blake joins a medical mission to a South American country wracked with civil war. The leader of the communist faction — the Executioner — orders an attack on the doctors, and Blake must use the power of Thor to save his colleagues and defeat the communists.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #[1] [unnamed variant] published November 1999
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 published January 2010TPB
In Issue: FlagThor Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #179 published August 1963
as Thor vs el Verdugo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #3 published July 1966
as The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #2 published February 1967
as The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #1 published April 1971
as Thor contro l'Esecutore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #4 [Direct Edition] published March 1986
as Book IV: Of Gods and Mutants [Story on Interior Page(s)]excerpts
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #18 published October 1991
as The Mighty Thor vs. the Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Thor #1 [1st Printing] published February 2001
as The Mighty Thor vs. the Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Direct] published January 2010
as The Mighty Thor vs. the Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor: Whosoever Wields This Hammer #1 published June 2011
as The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [V-831]
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

In this story, Donald Blake is able to use his walking stick to conjure a storm without transforming into Thor.
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The Recipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Josie; Miss White; Josie's mother
First Line: Josie was a tomboy.
Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #150 published September 1956
was The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-338]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Witching Hour!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Sam Jordan
First Line: Somewhere beyond the limits of our world, a lone figure rises!
Synopsis: A criminal flees to a foreign country, where people still believe in witches. He convinces a woman that he meets on the train to pretend to be a witch so that he can extort money from villagers as a fake witch hunter, but when he refuses to split the loot the woman reveals that she really is a witch and sends him floating into outer space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #179 published August 1963
as La Hora Embrujada [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Somewhere Hides a...Thing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jacque
First Line: Was the old man simply imagining the whole story, or did a strange unearthly menace really exist in the far, frozen north????
Synopsis: A dying man in the Arctic claims that he saw an alien land. His friends search for alien, but they don’t realize that an iceberg is its disguised space ship, and think it was a hallucination. The alien leaves, since humanity is too primitive for comment.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #179 published August 1963
as En Alguna Parte se Esconde una Cosa [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-833

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