Journey Into Mystery #86 (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....
Auction amount: $26,400.00
Sold: Jun 29, 2025
Journey into Mystery #86 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1962
About Journey into Mystery #86
First appearance of Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man. The fourth appearance of Thor, and the first full appearance of Odin. Jack Kirby cover and art. Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, and Don Heck art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966), | Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #450 (August 1992)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (introduction, cameo)
Synopsis: Zarrko of the year 2262 goes back in time and steals a cobalt bomb in 1962, but Thor chases him forward in time and defeats him.
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966)
Notes: D'Agostino credit per Nick Caputo, May 2014. Previous indexer credited Artie Simek. This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"Flight to the Future" (8 pp). The Tomorrow Man next appears in issue #101 (February 1964). Job number not listed in comic, came from the splash page of the original art.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 65 | 67 | 80 | 58 | 67 | 50 | 56 | 62 | 50 | 46 | 38 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 770 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
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Restored |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| Total | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 30 | 69 | 69 | 85 | 66 | 76 | 56 | 61 | 65 | 53 | 52 | 42 | 28 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 846 |
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