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Comic Book: Thor (1966 series)

What This Book is About:
Thor's flagship title, establishing him as one of the greatest of Marvel's heroes. Cover title is The Mighty Thor. Begins at #126, continuing the numeration from Journey into Mystery.

Data Sheet:
Dates
Mar 1966 to Sep 1996
1966
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Thor
Thor

(Odinson)
Balder
Balder

(Balder the Brave)
Warriors Three
Warriors Three

(Fandral, Hogun, Volstagg)
Loki
Loki

(Loki Laufeyson)
Karnilla
Karnilla

(Norn Queen)
Thor #126
Thor #126

(Mar 1966)

Comics Index

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Total Indexed Comics: 377

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Thor #151
3 stars

Thor #151

April 1968
"--To Rise Again!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor engages the Destroyer and Sif gradually loses control as the Destroyer's destructive nature takes over.In the Norn cavern, Karnilla tells Balder that she will save Sif, if he will serve her. Balder refuses. Suddenly, Ulik arrives, threatening to kill them all. [...]
Thor #152
3 stars

Thor #152

May 1968
"The Dilemma of Dr. Blake!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor goes on the offensive against the Destroyer. Just as the Destroyer opens its visor to unleash its disintegrator, it mysteriously collapses. Thor believes Odin has stepped in but, in Asgard, the All-Father is similarly mystified.In the Norn Kingdom, Karnilla returns Sif's spirit to her body. [...]
Thor #153
3 stars

Thor #153

June 1968
"--But Dr. Blake Can Die!"
Script: Stan Lee
Karnilla reveals that Loki has stolen some of her Norn power, allowing him to lift Mjolnir, then sends Thor and Sif to Earth, where the hammer turns into Don Blake's cane in Loki's hands. There, Loki finds Thor transformed into Blake. Sif defends Blake but is injured by Loki's Norn blast. [...]
Thor #154
4 stars

Thor #154

July 1968
"...To Wake the Mangog!"
Script: Stan Lee
Hela visits Thor in Sif's hospital room and shows him the destiny that awaits him in Valhalla. Harokin and other Valhalla warriors appeal to Thor to join them, but he declines.Meanwhile, Ulik realizes he has found the Odin-Cave, where Mangog is imprisoned, after being defeated by Odin. [...]
Thor #155
4 stars

Thor #155

August 1968
"Now Ends the Universe!"
Script: Stan Lee
Sensing portents of Ragnarok, Thor takes the recovering Sif with him to Asgard.In the Norn cavern, the spurned Karnilla pits her enchanted Legion of the Lost against Balder.A thousand galaxies away, the Colonizers detect deadly pulsations that could mean the end of all life. [...]
Thor #156
3 stars

Thor #156

September 1968
"The Hammer and the Holocaust!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor fights back but Mangog casts him away, throwing him against a mountainside. The Warriors Three then engage Mangog in battle.At the royal palace, Loki plans to combine his mystical powers with Karnilla's to defeat Mangog but only after Thor is slain. [...]
Thor #157
3 stars

Thor #157

October 1968
"Behind Him...Ragnarok!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor and Mangog battle briefly, but while Thor is distracted, Mangog slips away.In her cavern, Karnilla decrees that Balder must die, but the Legion of the Lost, freed from her spell by Balder's bravery, refuses to carry out her order. Dejected, Karnilla teleports them back to Asgard. [...]
Thor #158
3 stars

Thor #158

November 1968
"The Way It Was!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor returns to Earth, becoming Don Blake. He realizes that he has lost his patients during his absence, then takes a moment to consider his identity, wondering "if I'm truly Thor, then who is the real Don Blake? And if I am Don Blake, where was Thor before I took his identity? [...]
Thor #159
3 stars

Thor #159

December 1968
"Who is the Real Don Blake? The Answer at Last!"
Script: Stan Lee
Worn out from surgery, Don Blake rests in his hospital office, recalling Thor's visit to Asgard, shortly after finding Mjolnir in Norway. Odin brings him out of his reverie, and tells him how Thor became Don Blake. [...]
Thor #160
4 stars

Thor #160

January 1969
"And Now... Galactus!"
Script: Stan Lee
In New York, Thor notices a spaceship landing on a rooftop and finds Colonizer Tana Nile, who asks for his help against a danger that threatens Rigel and its neighboring star clusters.Meanwhile, in Asgard, the Recorder, visiting Odin, receives a signal mentioning Galactus and summoning him to Rigel. [...]
Thor #161
4 stars

Thor #161

February 1969
"Shall a God Prevail?"
Script: Stan Lee
The Wanderers rescue Thor and the Recorder from the void while Ego grabs Galactus with a tentacle of solidified energy. Thor agrees to help the Wanderers and leads them in battle against Galactus, who has freed himself from Ego's tentacles and strikes the Living Planet with comets. [...]
Thor #162
3 stars

Thor #162

March 1969
"Galactus is Born!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor and the Recorder return to Rigel and report to the High Commissioner who orders the Recorder's memory banks removed. Thor argues that the Recorder has a heart and is a noble ally, convincing the High Commissioner to keep him active. [...]
Thor #163
3 stars

Thor #163

April 1969
"Where Dwell the Demons!"
Script: Stan Lee
In New York, Thor finds the military mobilizing around the City Atomic Research Center's site, where a funnel of mystic energy has appeared. A soldier tells him Sif was whisked inside the funnel. As Thor enters the barrier, Odin searches the Book of Ages for all that is known of Galactus. [...]
Thor #164
4 stars

Thor #164

May 1969
"Lest Mankind Fall!"
Script: Stan Lee
Before departing to the 20th century, Pluto prepares to destroy the powerful creature he senses within the Research Center.In Asgard, Balder is haunted by love for Karnilla and turns to Odin for help. Odin, still studying up on Galactus, cannot rid him of his emotions but offers him escape. [...]
Thor #165
3 stars

Thor #165

June 1969
"Him!"
Script: Stan Lee
After being honored by the military, Thor, Sif and Balder enter the Research Center.In Nornheim, Karnilla and her servant Haag spy upon Balder.At the Research Center, Thor, Balder and Sif discover the artificial being Him, newly emerged from his cocoon. [...]
Thor #166
3 stars

Thor #166

July 1969
"A God Berserk!"
Script: Stan Lee
Enraged, Thor vents his fury on the barren world, destroying vast regions of it. Balder fears the "Warrior Madness" is upon him. Unmindful of Balder's concerns, Thor transports the two of them after Him and Sif.Meanwhile, in Nornheim, Haag forms a graven image totem of Balder to control him. [...]
Thor #167
3 stars

Thor #167

August 1969
"This World Renounced!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor pleads guilty to "Warrior Madness" and Odin sentences him to find Galactus.Balder journeys to Earth to protect it in Thor's stead. Karnilla monitors Balder, with Loki now by her side. [...]
Thor #168
3 stars

Thor #168

September 1969
"Galactus Found!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor leaves Asgard in the cosmos-craft and begins his quest for Galactus.On Earth, Balder is released from the hospital. The Warriors Three arrive to assist him defending Earth. They read a newspaper detailing a secret atomic blast in the Far East. [...]
Thor #169
3 stars

Thor #169

October 1969
"The Awesome Answer!"
Script: Stan Lee
Galactus continues narrating his origin to Thor, who is touched by the story but must fight him. However, Odin contacts Thor to tell him he has learned what he needed to know about Galactus whose time, he declares, "is not yet come. [...]
Thor #170
3 stars

Thor #170

November 1969
"The Thunder God and the Thermal Man!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor finds Balder and the Warriors Three who warn him about the Thermal Man's might. The military attacks the Thermal Man, to no avail. Thor rallies his friends against the Thermal Man, but they cannot defeat him. [...]
Thor #171
3 stars

Thor #171

December 1969
"The Wrath of the Wrecker!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor hears that civil rights leader Pedro Luis Lopez has been shot by a would-be assassin and goes to operate on him as Dr. Don Blake.Elsewhere, the Wrecker overcomes the constant sedation under which he is kept, escapes a prison hospital, travels to Manhattan, and goes on a rampage. [...]
Thor #172
3 stars

Thor #172

January 1970
"The Immortal and the Mind-Slave!"
Script: Stan Lee
Dr. North visits Don Blake and tells him that billionaire Kronin Krask is holding Jane Foster hostage to force him to perform a "forbidden experiment." North hopes that Blake can contact Thor for help. [...]
Thor #173
3 stars

Thor #173

February 1970
"Ulik Unleashed!"
Script: Stan Lee
Dr. Don Blake treats Mike, the Circus of Crime strongman who performs as Thor, who has wrenched his back lifting something the Ringmaster won't divulge. [...]
Thor #174
4 stars

Thor #174

March 1970
"The Carnage of the Crypto Man!"
Script: Stan Lee
Jasper Whyte, self-styled "world's greatest micro-electronic engineer," uses an illusion-beam to distract Thor, hits him with a hypno-stun ray, then absorbs some of his might with his strength sapper. [...]
Thor #175
3 stars

Thor #175

April 1970
"The Fall of Asgard!"
Script: Stan Lee
Thor helps the police prevent a highway robbery.In Nornheim, Balder and the Warriors Three demand that Karnilla release them. She readily complies. [...]