Dates
- Cover date
- September 1963
- On sale
- July 2, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #96 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
- Defying the Magic of... Mad Merlin! · 13 pages
Merlin is awakened after a thousand years and immediately decides to try and take over the world. He battles Thor using familiar Washington D.C. monuments. Thor defeats Merlin and forces him to return to sleep.
- The Traveler · 1 pages
A bored man working on an assembly line is taken to outer space in his dreams, and is given an idea for an otherworldly invention.
- Call Her...Medusa! · 5 pages
The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.
- Frederick Fenton's Future! · 5 pages
An arrogant rich man builds a time machine in order gain the secret to eternal life from the future. When he arrives he finds that humanity has left Earth to go to a paradise planet, and his time machine will not take him back.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), The Mighty Thor (1977), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (2003), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Thor Annual (1966), Fantastic! (1967), Marvel a Full Colour Comic Album (1969), The Empire Strikes Back Weekly (1980), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (1999), Essential Thor (2001), The Mighty Thor Omnibus (2010), Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (2010), Thor Epic Collection (2013), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Thor (2021), Marvel July 1963 Omnibus (2023)