Journey Into Mystery 83

In this issue:

Thor the Mighty! and “The Stone Men from Saturn!”
13 pages :: Jack Kirby/Joe Sinnott
reprinted in Marvel Tales Annual 1, Thor 158, Origins of Marvel Comics, Marvel Masterworks, Thor 432

Of course, the Stone Men from Saturn were another of the Kirby Kreations derived from the sculptures on Easter Island—he also used them in at least a couple of other monster stories—at least one for DC! There is a alternate reality version of this story in What If? (first series) #10 with Jane Foster as a female Thor!

Kirby experimented with the Thunder God as far back as 1942 in Adventure Comics #75 where “The Villian from Valhalla” battles against the Sandman.

Closer to the Marvel Thor, is the charater that appears in Tales of the Unexpected #16 “The Majic Hammer”. Here, Thor looks a lot more like Odin (bearded and a bit portly), but the circles on his costume are there, and his hammer looks identical to Marvel's Thor.

I am curious if one could consider the monsters from the Tales of Asgard series as Marvel Monsters? Great Kirby creatures such as SURTUR, YMIR, the Stone Giants, etc might at least may deserve an honorable mention.

If there is anyone who made an impression on me it was Jack Kirby whose work on both the Fantastic Four and Thor produced two fantastic universes. I often wonder why Thor never teamed up with the Fantastic Four and why Galactacus never invaded Thor's home of Asgard while Kirby was drawing both epics? We always had Mephisto (the Devil) and Loki as Thor's main antagonists.

Unless I missed it…was there there ever a time when Kirby teamed up Thor and the FF to fight Galactacus on Thor's homeland of Asgard? If you threw in the Inhumans it would have been a real titantic battle to the finish!

I am one of the fans that liked Kirby's dialogue and writing in the New Gods and in the 1976 version of his Captain America comics. I only wish that Marvel had given him the oppertunity to give him his own scripts to draw. I find that he did his best work when he was drawing from his own script. There will be those that disagree but I liked Kirby's seventies and eighties work more than some of his much revered art in the Fantastic Four. I am just wondering why there was never more done with team ups back in the mid and late 60's? It seems after he left a concept that could possibly be his like “Marvel Team Up” might have been inspired by Kirby.

hi. a couple of yrs ago i went on a school trip to the Marvel HQ in NYC. And they gave out little bags with random comics at the end of the trip and i was the only kid with a special double sided comic. it had Amazing Fantasy 15 (debut of Spiderman) on one side and Journey Into Mystery (Thors debut) on the other side. Any idea on how much this is worth?

I have a queston if you will. I have a Journey Into Mystery 83, but there is no price
or date or issue #. I have had it for about 30 years. It is autographed by Jack Kirby. Is this some kind of reprint issue of a later date or something? Thanks, Em.

Back again! I forgot to unblock my mail! Had asked a question about 83. Thanks,Em

To Emma - sounds like what you have is a copy of the “Golden Record” reprint edition from 1966 which originally came with an accompanying vinyl record with the story read outloud on it.

I just purchased JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83 on Ebay. My copy doesn't have a cover, but it's still a really cool comic book. I never owned it as a kid, but I did own a lot of the early Thor classics featured in the JIM series. The Stone men from Saturn are ultra-cool Kirby villians, which makes this first issue of Thor a true classic! This comic book was worth every penny of the $99. that I paid for it! Just looking at the splash page is a daily event for me!

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