Journey Into Mystery
The first appearance of Thor, in Journey into Mystery #83 (August, 1962).
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Publication date	June 1952 - August 1957, November 1958 - February 1966
Creative team
Writer(s)	Stan Lee
Artist(s)	Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Jack Kirby
Creator(s)	Stan Lee

Journey into Mystery was an American comic book series published by Atlas Comics, and later its successor Marvel Comics. It featured horror, monster, and science fiction stories. With the start of the Silver Age of Comics, Marvel switched the feature to superhero stories and in issue #83 introduced Thor, inspired by the Norse thunder god and by writer Stan Lee's musings that comic books were the mythology of the modern day. Journey into Mystery primarily featured Thor stories through issue #125 and Journey into Mystery Annual #1, at which point the series was retitled The Mighty Thor.

[edit] Publication history

[edit] Second series (1972)

A second Journey into Mystery series was published for nineteen issues, beginning in 1972. This series was part of a boom of new "mystery" comics, but by issue #6 featured reprints of science fiction and monster tales from the first Journey into Mystery series, as well as Amazing Adult Fantasy, Strange Tales, Strange Worlds, and Tales to Astonish.

[edit] Third series

As a consequence of Heroes Reborn, Thor dropped out of his own series beginning with issue #503 and his book's title was restored to Journey into Mystery. The series continued with the "Lost Gods" storyline (which ran through issue #513) and then with a rotating cast of characters, until finally ending with Journey into Mystery #521 in 1998.

[edit] First appearances

• Absorbing Man in #114
• Asgard in #85
• Balder in #85
• Cobra in #98
• Destroyer in #118
• Enchantress in #103
• Fandral in #119
• Frigga in #92
• Geirrodur in #101
• Grey Gargoyle in #107
• Hercules in Annual #1
• Heimdall in #85
• Hela in #102
• Hogun in #119
• Idunn in #114
• Jotunheim in #114
• Karnilla in #107
• Lorelei in #337
• The Kronans (a.k.a. the Stone Men from Saturn) in #83
• The Lava Men (Molto) in #97
• Mad Merlin/Maha Yogi (as Merlin) in #96
• Olympus in Annual #1
• Radioactive Man in #93
• Sif in #102
• Surtur in #97
• Thor in #83
• Tyr in #85
• Volstagg in #119
• Ymir in #97
• Zeus in Annual #1

[edit] References

• Journey into Mystery #1–125 (Marvel Comics, June 1952 – February 1966)
• Journey into Mystery Annual #1 (Marvel Comics, 1965)
• Journey into Mystery (1972 series) #1–19 (Marvel Comics, October 1972 – October 1975)
• Journey into Mystery (1996 series) #503–521 (Marvel Comics, November 1996 – June 1998)
• Journey into Mystery (1996 series) #-1 ("Minus 1") (Marvel Comics, July 1997)