Journey Into Mystery #88 (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $13,200.00
Sold: Nov 20, 2022
Journey into Mystery #88 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1963
About Journey into Mystery #88
Featuring Thor. Second appearance of Loki. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover and art. Don Heck art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Loki; Odin
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Steve Ditko
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Loki; Jane Foster; Odin (cameo); Heimdall (cameo)
Synopsis: Loki discovers Thor’s secret identity and separates him from his hammer, forcing him to remain a human. Loki torments humanity, but Dr. Blake tricks him into allowing him to regain the hammer and become Thor, defeating Loki and returning him to Asgard.
Pages: 13.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils: Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko (see notes)
Inks: Dick Ayers; Steve Ditko (see notes)
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967)
Notes: Page 13 of this story, seen at Heritage Auctions, revealed a stat under panel 5 with Jack Kirby's original drawing. Stan Lee likely requested a correction which was drawn by Steve Ditko. Information per Nick Caputo's blog: https://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2012/01/journey-into-minutiae-undocumented.html
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 |
9 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 32 | 52 | 55 | 98 | 62 | 62 | 50 | 55 | 38 | 51 | 37 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 724 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
|
Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Total | 9 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 36 | 58 | 63 | 106 | 70 | 65 | 54 | 60 | 43 | 54 | 41 | 35 | 26 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 795 |
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