Thor #202

Name: Thor #202
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Aug 1972 · Marvel · 0.20 USD

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“--And None Dare Stand 'gainst Ego-Prime!”

★ 1st appearance — Genii

About this Issue

Thor #202 marks the first appearance of Jackson Kimbal — later known as Jason Kimball — a mortal destined to become one of the Young Gods, a concept Gerry Conway seeded here that would take nearly a decade to fully pay off in Thor #300 and beyond. The issue is also the pivotal chapter in which Ego-Prime, a sentient fragment of Ego the Living Planet, evolves on the streets of Manhattan into a towering humanoid with godlike power, giving readers the creature's most dramatically realized form. As the second part of Conway's World's End/Ego-Prime trilogy — widely regarded by commentators as the high-water mark of his four-year tenure on the title — it distills the Bronze Age Thor formula: cosmic-scale menace, Odinesque manipulation, and the full Asgardian supporting cast deployed as an ensemble rather than window dressing. The subplot threading through the action, in which a disguised Heimdall quietly recruits an ordinary Brooklyn man for a secret divine purpose, plants narrative roots that branch through Thor's continuity all the way to the Celestials' Fourth Host.

writer Gerry Conway · artist John Buscema · inker Vinnie Colletta · letterer Artie Simek · cover John Buscema, John Romita, Marie Severin, Vince Colletta

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History

Gerry Conway — who, at roughly nineteen, was simultaneously taking over The Amazing Spider-Man and writing Thor — scripted this issue at a moment when he was among the busiest writers at Marvel. Roy Thomas served as editor-in-chief over the title, though at least one source credits Stan Lee as the specific editor on this issue, creating a minor discrepancy in the record. John Buscema provided interior pencils inked by Vince Colletta, who had been Buscema's embellisher on the run since #195 (with one fill-in issue by Jim Mooney); the cover carries an unusually collaborative production credit, with John Romita Sr. and Marie Severin both making documented alterations to Buscema's original cover artwork. Conway himself later acknowledged that Stan Lee offered some criticism of his Thor work, suggesting the run existed under at least informal editorial scrutiny from the top of the masthead.

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Published August 1972 (on-sale May 16, 1972); story titled '—And None Dare Stand 'Gainst Ego-Prime!'; part 2 of a 3-part arc.
First appearance of Jackson Kimbal (credited in-issue; renamed Jason Kimball beginning with #203), a mortal later elevated by Odin as one of the Young Gods to face the Celestials' Fourth Host.
Ego-Prime takes humanoid form for the first time in this issue, evolving from a crystalline monster into a towering pink-skinned giant on the streets of Manhattan — distinct from his earlier crystalline appearances beginning in Thor #199.
Creative team: script by Gerry Conway, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Vince Colletta, lettering by Artie Simek; cover pencils by Buscema with documented alterations by John Romita Sr. and Marie Severin.
The issue features the full Asgardian supporting cast simultaneously: Thor, Sif, Balder, the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun, Volstagg), Hildegarde, Heimdall, Karnilla, and Odin all appear, making it one of the most densely populated single issues of the Conway run.
Odin is revealed to be covertly manipulating events — allowing Thor and allies to suffer against Ego-Prime as part of a secret plan — a thread that resolves in Thor #203 when three mortals are transformed into Young Gods using Ego-Prime's released energies.
The Young Gods introduced through this storyline (Kimball, Dyam, and Lo) would not return in a major role until Thor #291 and #300 (1980), and received their fullest treatment in Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8 (1988).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor Vol. 11 (2012).