Journey Into Mystery (1st Series) #83

Collector Notes:

(See Thor 1st Series) (See Journey into Mystery 2nd Series).

The series ran uninterrupted between #1 (1952) and #125 1966. After #125 the title continued as Thor #126 (see Thor 1st Series) up to Thor #502. From Thor #502 the title reverted to Journey into Mystery #503 and ran for 19 issues until Journey into Mystery #521.

The series and numbering now continues from Thor #621 (see Thor 1st Series). Journey into Mystery (2nd Series) does not contain Thor or any related Thor stories but rather it is a series that continued the long history of horror and mystery comics that was started in this original Journey into Mystery series before Thor became the central character.

This long running title finally came to a close with the October 2013 issue #655.

#83 (Aug 1962) Origin and 1st appearance of the Mighty Thor by Jack Kirby who proved to be one of Marvel's great characters. And with a blockbuster movie and sequel proving successful, this character and title could go ballistic. The UK variant has a 9d printed cover price in place of the American 12 cents and there is no month date. I need to double-check the exact wording but there's some distributor information inside that's different. Otherwise it is fundamentally the same comic as its American counterpart, printed on the same day on the same paper. And by comparison, much rarer!

An interesting note on restoration: a very nice looking US cents copy sold in UK on Jun 2010 for £1,021, graded very accurately by the vendor as an Apparent Fine Minus. It had spots of colour touch and the cover may have been re-glossed.

A cents copy JIM #83 in FN Plus cents copy with cream pages and a diagonal cover crease sold in Mar 2009 for £1,815.

A very tatty cents copy (just about a Poor) fetched £330.31 in Feb 2011.

Age:

Silver Age

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