Journey Into Mystery #122

Where Mortals Fear to Tread!

Featuring: Thor
Release: September 2, 1965
Cover: November 1965
12 cents
Written with compassion by: Stan Lee
Drawn with comprehension by: Jack Kirby
Inked with competence by: Vince Colletta
Lettered for compensation by: Artie Simek
16 pages

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I gave him strength to challenge a god– but even Loki could not give him valor to match that of Thor!

Odin gets the center stage on a pretty awesome cover.

Thor had been merely stunned at the end of last issue. Absorbing Man really seems unable to best Thor, so Loki brings him to Asgard.

It is of course against the law of Odin to bring mortals to Asgard.

Three basic dangling plot threads: Absorbing Man; Jane’s kidnapping; the lost Norn Stone. Plus the general overarching plot that Loki is probably scheming. We won’t check in on the Norn Stone this issue. After all, it’s a rock. It’s just sitting there where Thor dropped it. We’ll resolve the Jane subplot.

Let’s look to that now. We saw Jane’s kidnapper last issue in a hood, his identity unrevealed.

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