If you're fortunate enough to own any of the MARVEL OMNIBUS editions, you'll doubtless have appreciated the clean reproduction, the near perfect colour registration, the larger than normal page size, the attention to detail, etc., etc. Truly they are things to marvel at (pardon the pun), but they have ONE drawback - they're almost TOO good.
A while back, I purchased THE SILVER SURFER Omnibus; I went through it page by page, drinking in all the above mentioned qualities, savouring the exquisite clarity of each panel - but without reading it. Then I dug out my original eighteen issue run of comics and read them individually over the next few evenings.
Great as the Omnibus volumes are, there's just something about the original issues which is hard to beat. The smell of the paper, the adverts, the benday tint colouring - it all adds up to an experience which is a delight to the senses. When you're sitting on the porcelain, an Omnibus volume can be quite heavy on the ol' thighs; a single comic is much easier to read and far less wearing on the legs.
With that in mind, I decided to treat you all to THOR THE MIGHTY's origin, scanned from my own personal copy of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83. I could've scanned my softcover MASTERWORKS volume, which - along with the Omnibus edition - has the best reprint so far of that particular tale. However, you folks are special - I figured that you deserve nothing but the original printing.
Plot: STAN LEE * Script: LARRY LIEBER * Art: JACK KIRBY & JOE SINNOTT * Letters: ART SIMEK
Plot: STAN LEE * Script: LARRY LIEBER * Art: JACK KIRBY & JOE SINNOTT * Letters: ART SIMEK
Click on any page, which will at first reduce in size. Then click again to see the image in extra-large size.
BONUS DEPT: Here's how the final panel originally read before it was changed to the printed version.
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