Journey into Mystery, #84
Published: September 1962
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The Executioner
"How can I do what I must, without revealing my most precious secret??"
Characters
- Jane Foster (mainstream Universe)
- Thor Odinson (mainstream Universe)
- Thor (mainstream Universe)
- Comrade Executioner
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Joe Sinnott
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner
"Only I and my hammer stand between the Executioner's legions and... disaster!"
Storyline
Dr. Blake joins a medical mission to a South American country wracked with civil war. The leader of the communist faction — the Executioner — orders an attack on the doctors, and Blake must use the power of Thor to save his colleagues and defeat the communists.
Characters
- Jane Foster (mainstream Universe)
- Thor Odinson
- Thor
- Mrs. Jones
- Mrs. Jones son (Patient)
- American Doctors
- Comrade Executioner (death, not to be confused with the later Thor villain Executioner)
- Executioner's Air Force
- Executioner's Army
- Democratic Fraction Army
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Script: Larry Lieber
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo. In this story, Donald Blake is able to use his walking stick to conjure a storm without transforming into Thor.
The Recipe
"Josie was a tomboy."
Storyline
A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Characters
- Josie
- Miss White
- Josie's mother
Story Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Witching Hour!
"Somewhere beyond the limits of our world, a lone figure rises!"
Storyline
A criminal flees to a foreign country, where people still believe in witches. He convinces a woman that he meets on the train to pretend to be a witch so that he can extort money from villagers as a fake witch hunter, but when he refuses to split the loot the woman reveals that she really is a witch and sends him floating into outer space.
Characters
- Sam Jordan
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
- Letters: Terry Szenics
Story Notes
Possible Lee plot and Lieber script per Nick Caputo. The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky only credits Stan Lee.
Somewhere Hides a...Thing!
"Was the old man simply imagining the whole story, or did a strange unearthly menace really exist in the far, frozen north????"
Storyline
A dying man in the Arctic claims that he saw an alien land. His friends search for alien, but they don’t realize that an iceberg is its disguised space ship, and think it was a hallucination. The alien leaves, since humanity is too primitive for comment.
Characters
- Jacque
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Script and Letters credit is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.