Thor#174
Cover: Jack Kirby & Bill Everett
Thor #174
“The Carnage of the Crypto-Man!”
writer Stan Lee · artist Jack Kirby · inker Bill Everett · colorist Bill Everett · letterer Sam Rosen · cover Jack KirbyBill Everett
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
artist Jack Kirby
inker Bill Everett
colorist Bill Everett
letterer Sam Rosen
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Bill Everett
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Scientist Jasper Whyte steals Thor’s power and transfers it to his creation, the robotic Crypto-Man. Thor and Crypto-Man battle. Part two of Whyte’s plan is for Crypto-Man to detonate a bomb and destroy much of New York. Thor reminds Whyte that his mother lives in New York, a detail that he had forgotten. Whyte destroys Crypto-Man, but the physical exertion kills him.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).