On 2008-06-16 Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com, ...in Middle America wrote: Once upon a time I had a complete run of Silver age ´Thor´ books, and I have to confess that the series did get rather dull, starting around... hmmmm... let´s see... maybe in the issue numbers 160-something? By the 180´s it was so totally over. Thor was in a gigantic creative rut that wouldn´t be cured until Walt Simonson took over in the 1980s.
But *these* issues -- oh, my! -- the issues collected in this volume of Marvel Masterworks... These glorious episodes from ´The Mighty Thor´ #131-140, these are the Jack Kirby-Marvel motherlode. Here, Thor went sci-fi in a big, big way, and Kirby never came up with anything as mindblowingly grand, or fabulous, or far-out as these issues. Great concepts and crazy characters such as Tana Nile, the Colonizers and -- WOW! -- Ego, The Living Planet(!) were perhaps the best-realized and best-illustrated sci-fi concepts of his career. This stuff is even better than most of the peak-era ´Fantastic Four,´ and certainly better than the sloppy-looking stuff he did in the ´Seventies (´Forever People,´ etc.) Overall, ´Thor´ was a pretty lame book, but these issues were really amazing. If you want Jack Kirby at his best, this is where to look. Too bad they couldn´t have kept it at this level forever. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews). And summed up by saying Jack Kirby´s best work...ever!. Currently Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor Volume 5 has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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Jack Kirby claimed Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JACK KIRBY Cover by JACK KIRBY We´ve been ordered from on high, True Believers, and Marvel doesn´t say ´Nay´ to our ol´ buddy Odin! That´s right, it´s time for another captivating Masterworks collection of the one and only Mighty Thor! A masterpiece of immortal action, cosmic scope, and boundless drama, Stan and Jack´s Thor collaborations mark a cornerstone of the Marvel Universe, and that´s no small accomplishment coming from the imaginations of the most celebrated creators in comics! And boy, oh boy, bunky, do they knock it up a notch, a cosmic notch, with the tales we´ll be bringing you here! It all begins when the Thunder God is captured by Rigellian colonizers and taken on a trip to the Black Galaxy to confront the one and only Ego, the Living Planet! It´s non-stop action, action, action from there as he journeys to Wundagore Mountain to meet the matchless High Evolutionary and his menagerie of man-beasts! It all wraps up with a trio of titanic tussles between Odin´s Son and Ulik the Troll, the Growing Man, and the Destroyer! There´s a soft spot to these tales too, so don´t forget your hanky as Thor struggles to reconcile his love for the mortal Jane Foster, and then there´s the return of a certain Lady Sif...The cup runneth over with drama and delight! Collecting THOR (Vol. 1) #131-140 & ANNUAL #2. 256 PGS./All Ages
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