Journey into Mystery
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Journey into Mystery is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It originally featured monster and science fiction stories. With the start of the Silver Age of Comics, Marvel switched the feature to superhero stories and introduced Thor in issue #83, 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.
As of issue #502, Thor dropped out of his own series, which returned to its original title the following issue. The series continued with the "Lost Gods" until finally ending with Journey into Mystery #521 in 1996.
A second series titled Journey into Mystery was published for nineteen issues, beginning in 1972. This series 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.
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
- The Kronans (aka 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
- Sif in #102
- Surtur in #97
- Thor in #83
- Tyr in #85
- Volstagg in #119
- Ymir in #97
- Zeus in Annual #1
References
- Journey into Mystery #1-125 (Marvel Comics, June 1952 - February 1966)
- Journey into Mystery Annual #1 (Marvel Comics, 1966)
- 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)