Journey Into Mystery #111 - 120

 

journeyintomystery-111.jpg (126584 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #111   December 1964
"The Power of the Thunder God"
Tales of Asgard - "The Secret of Sigurd"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Chic Stone
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances: 
Cobra, Mr Hyde, Jane Foster, Odin, Balder, Loki, Hardol the Healer
TOA - Loki, Balder, Sigurd

Significant Events:  1st appearance of Hardol the Healer, 1st appearance of Sigurd

Synopsis:  Thor tries to keep Jane safe while fending off Cobra and HydeThor is hard pressed to stop them with thier powers increased by Loki.  In Asgard, Odin is still against Thor loving Jane, but he doesn't want Jane to die, so he tells Loki to go to Hardol for a potion.  Balder and the others don't trust Loki, so Balder takes the message.  Thor manages to flip Hyde into one of their own traps, which paralyzes him.  Thor then causes an electrical current to go throughout the house, taking care of Cobra Balder faces multiple dangers on the path to Hardol, but finally wins through, barely in time to save Jane.


journeyintomystery-112.jpg (130522 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #112    January 1965
"Thor Battles the Incredible Hulk"
Tales of Asgard - "The Coming of Loki"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Chic Stone
Letters: Sam Rosen

Appearances: 
Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Incredible Hulk, Odin
TOA - Laufey, Odin, Loki

Significant Events:  Origin of Loki

Synopsis:  Thor overhears some children arguing about who is stronger - Thor or Hulk.  He then tells them of the time that he fought Hulk one on one.  He and Hulk had become separated from the others.  Thor then asked Odin for five minutes in which he could retain his power without Mjolnir, which is granted.  They battle back and forth, neither gaining a real advantage.  During their battle, the tunnel collapses, separating them.  Thor finds his way back to the others in time to meet up with them and have Hulk and Namor escape.  He then tells the children that there was no decisive victor, but it's not the greatest power that matters, it's how you use that power.


journeyintomystery-113.jpg (67444 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #113    February 1965
"A World Gone Mad!"
Tales of Asgard - "The Boyhood of Loki!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Chic Stone
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances:
Odin, Grey Gargoyle, Loki, Balder, Honir the Hunter.  
TOA - Loki, Volsak, Uller

Significant Events:  1st appearance of Uller, 1st appearance of Volsak

Synopsis:  Thor returns to Earth and decides to renounce his godly heritage, and tell Jane everything so he can marry her.  Elsewhere, two museum curators are examining something discovered at the bottom of the Hudson.  Only it's the Grey Gargoyle.  He turns the men to stone, then flees.  In Asgard, Odin has witnessed what Thor has done, and removes his powers entirely.  When Blake tries to change, nothing happens.  Just then, Grey Gargoyle breaks in, wanting to know where Thor is.  Balder and the other Asgardians plan to help Thor, but with him now being in Odin's favor, Loki stops them, except for one.  The Grey Gargoyle continues to chase Jane and Don throughout the city, until that Asgardian grants Blake the power of Thor for 30 seconds.  Thor fuses Grey Gargoyle's mass together so he cannot, move, then transforms back.  Honir then returns to Odin, where Odin decides that Thor shall keep his power.


journeyintomystery-114.jpg (66949 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #114      March 1965
"The Stronger I Am, the Sooner I Die!"
Tales of Asgard - "The Golden Apples!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Chic Stone
Letters: Sam Rosen

Appearances: 
Loki, Absorbing ManHarris Hobbs
TOA - Iduna, Haakun the Hunter, Fenris

Significant Events:  1st appearance of origin of the Absorbing Man, 1st appearance of Haakun the Hunter, 1st appearance of Harris Hobbs

Synopsis:  Thor captures an enemy agent, while Loki once again tries to stop him and fails.  Loki then decides to grant power to someone else.  He then mystically puts a potion in Crusher Creel's drink in prison, creating the Absorbing ManHarris Hobbs, visiting Blake as a patient, tells him about the escaped con with superpowers.  Blake then changes to Thor, and flies off to investigate.  He comes across Crusher, and finds out his power.  Crusher manages to beat Thor down, then begins on a spree of terror.  Thor manages to catch up to him, and they battle for hour upon hour, until Balder interferes.  He transports Thor to Asgard, leaving Crusher on Earth.  Balder tells Thor that Loki has kidnapped JaneCrusher heads towards a house to make plans, believing that he made Thor flee.  Thor heads off to confront Loki and free Jane.


journeyintomystery-115.jpg (61350 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #115        April 1965
"The Vengeance of the Thunder God"
Tales of Asgard - "A Viper in Our Midst!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Frankie Ray
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances: 
Loki, Absorbing Man, Odin
TOA - Loki, Ghan the Storm Giant

Significant Events:  none

Synopsis:  Thor has found Loki and begins attacking relentlessly.  Crusher takes a couple hostage in their home.  Odin interrupts the battle between Thor and Loki and seeing Jane in Asgard, orders the Trial of the GodsThor asks, and is granted, 48 hours to return Jane to Earth and capture CrusherThor catches up to the cops as they are surrounding the house he's in.  Hobbs goes in and tricks Crusher into coming out, where he's attacked by Thor Creel absorbs all the properties of the Earth, which Thor then transmutes to helium by using Mjolnir.  After checking on Jane, Thor then returns to Asgard.


journeyintomystery-116.jpg (59540 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #116        May 1965
"The Trial of the Gods!"
Tales of Asgard - "The Challenge!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances: 
Loki, Odin. Enchantress, Executioner, Yagg, Balder, Iron Man, Captain America, Rick Jones, Giant Man, Wasp, Daredevil, Medusa, Wizard, Sandman, Trapster.    
Tales of Asgard - Loki, King Hymir, Princess Rinda

Significant Events:  1st appearance of King Hymir, 1st appearance of Princess Rinda, 1st appearance of Yagg

Synopsis:  Thor and Loki are transported to Skornheim for the Trial of the Gods.  But beforehand, Loki persuaded Enchantress and Executioner to kidnap Jane, so Thor would be distracted.  Loki then proceeds to cheat his way to victory by using the enchanted Norn Stones.  They get through a few obstacles, but then come across Yagg.  Back in Asgard, Balder makes Odin aware of Loki's treachery.  Odin then sends Balder to rescue JaneLoki uses the stones to fly out of range of Yagg's blasts, but Thor throws a fragment of petrified rock with enough force to fell Yagg in one blow.  Thor barely catches up to Loki, but it is too late.  Loki enters the portal to Asgard first and wins the Trial of the Gods.


journeyintomystery-117.jpg (110419 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #117     June 1965
"Into the Blaze of Battle"
Tales of Asgard - "The Sword in the Scabbard"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Letters:   Artie Simek

Appearances:
  Loki, Odin, Executioner, Balder, Enchantress, Karnilla

Significant Events:  none

Synopsis:  Thor follows Loki through the portal, and then Loki transports the stones far away, getting rid of the evidence.  Thor then asks Odin for permission to go to Earth to search for the stones.  He arrives just in time to help save Jane and run off Enchantress and ExecutionerBalder gets Jane home, while Thor begins searching for the Stones, where he is lead to Vietnam.  He is then attacked by the Vietnamese, and knocked unconscious.  He awakens in a hut, surrounded by a family that thinks Thor was sent by Buddha to destroy the guerrillas.  Thor is then lead towards the Stones once more by Mjolnir, but is hampered by his cape, so he changes to BlakeLoki is watching though, and leads a group of guerrillas to him.  Blake is captured and brought before Hu Sak, who wants to know why he is there.  He doesn't answer, so the family from earlier is brought in.  Blake manages to run off while Hu Sak is distracted, and transforms to Thor.  Enraged, Hu Sak kills his own family, then realizes what he's done.  Thor rescues Kim, the only survivor, and flies her to safety.  Back in the camp, Hu Sak, realizing that Communism killed his family, detonates all the mortar shells, killing himself.


journeyintomystery-118.jpg (57549 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #118      July 1965
"To Kill a Thunder God!"
Tales of Asgard - "The Crimson Hand!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances: 
Loki, Destroyer, Odin
Tales of Asgard - Morduk, Loki, Braggi

Significant Events:  1st appearance of the Destroyer, 1st appearance of Braggi, 1st appearance of Morduk

Synopsis:  Thor stops to examine the Stones to make sure none are lost.  Loki then uses that moment to strike.  He causes a renegade hunter to see Thor and knocks him out with an anesthetic shell.  Loki then causes Asgardian relics to be found around the hunter's camp.  This causes the hunter to go off looking for more treasure.  He is then led by Loki to the Temple of Darkness, where he discovers the DestroyerThor wakes up and follows, and discovers that the hunter's life force has activated the DestroyerThor begins attacking, but realizes the Destroyer can also lift MjolnirLoki, watching, realizes that he has outdone himself.  If the Destroyer kills Thor, then Odin will surely take a terrible vengeance.  He goes to wake Odin, but the guards prevent him from entering.  The Destroyer relentlessly attacks Thor, then molecularly traps him in the floor.  Loki is trapped in the Dungeon of No Escape, unable to do anything, while the Destroyer fires a bolt of elemental destructive force at the trapped Thor.


journeyintomystery-119.jpg (128742 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #119      August 1965
"The Day of the Destroyer"
Tales of Asgard - "Gather, Warriors"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Letters:  Artie Simek

Appearances:  Destroyer, Loki, Odin

Significant Events:  1st appearance of Fandral, 1st appearance of Hogun, 1st appearance of Volstagg, 1st appearance of Ularic

Synopsis:  Thor has become completely unsolid, thanks to Loki.  This saves him, but he quickly becomes solid again, because the strain was too great on Loki.  In Asgard, Loki uses the last of his strength to send a message to Karnilla,  The Destroyer, realizing Thor is solid again, begins attacking again.  Karnilla's message reaches Odin, causing him to awaken.  Thor reaches the hunter's body before the Destroyer does, and bluffs him into returning to his own body.  The Temple begins to collapse from their earlier battle, burying the DestroyerOdin knows that it was Loki that caused the Destroyer to be awakened, and sentences him to serve Ularic Thor travels to America using the Norn Stones, to see about repairing Mjolnir, which was sliced in two in battle with the Destroyer.


journeyintomystery-120.jpg (114990 bytes)Journey Into Mystery #120          September 1965
"With My Hammer In Hand...!"
Tales of Asgard - "Set Sail!"

Writer:  Stan Lee
Artist:  Jack Kirby
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Letters: Artie Simek

Appearances:
Odin, Loki, Ularic, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Jane Foster, Absorbing Man
TOA - Odin, Volstagg, Loki, Magrat the Schemer, Kroda the Duellist, Hogun, Vizier

Significant Events:  1st appearance of Kroda the Duelist, 1st appearance of Magrat the Schemer, 1st appearance of Vizier

Synopsis:  Thor has gone to one of the foundries in Pittsburgh to reforge his hammer.  Afterwards, Thor leaves for Asgard with the Norn Stones. accidentally dropping one of them.  Loki attacks Ularic and imprisons him in his own time vault, and begins planning anew.  Bored, Thor returns to Earth, only to find his office empty and Jane missing.  The landlord tells him that his rent is months overdue, and Mrs Thaxton tells him that she is seeing someone else.  Blake transforms back into Thor to try to find JaneThor goes to Avengers Mansion, but finds the new Avengers, not the ones he knows.  Elsewhere, Jane stares out a window, while a shadowy figure tells her that she must forget him.  In Asgard, Loki is searching space for something or someone.  Loki finds it, and transports it to Earth in a spheroid.  It races past Thor, then bursts open revealing the Absorbing Man.

  

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