CATALOG RECORD
Journey into Mystery #84
first appearance of Jane Foster
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Jane Foster (Thor) — introduction, called "Jane Nelson"
Dates
- Cover date
- September 1962
- On sale
- July 3, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #84 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- The Mighty Thor vs. The Executioner · 13 pages
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.
- The Recipe · 2 pages
A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
- The Witching Hour! · 5 pages
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.
- Somewhere Hides a...Thing! · 5 pages
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
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (2003), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Tales (1966), Fantastic! (1967), Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973), Titan Pocket Book (1980), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (1999), Essential Thor (2001), The Mighty Thor Omnibus (2010), Thor the Mighty Avenger (2010), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (2010), Thor: Whosoever Wields This Hammer (2011), Thor Epic Collection (2013), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)