Journey into Mystery #92 for Sale - First Appearance of Freyja - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series)
Issue: #92
Publication date: May 1963
Key date: 1963-05-00
On-sale date: 1963-03-05
Indicia publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Freyja - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers, Jack Kirby; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Thor Odinson, Loki, Thor
2	The Day Loki Stole Thor's Magic Hammer	comic story	13	script: Stan Lee, R. Berns; pencils: Joe Sinnott; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Martin Epp	Thor Odinson, Jane Foster, Freyja First, Heimdall, Loki, Odin, Thor
3	The Remedy Oil	text story	2	pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin	Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
7	The Man Who Hated Monstro!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Paul Reinman; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Karl Krumm; Monstro
11	I Used to Be... Human!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Tales #10	1967	On eBay ›
Fear #3	1971	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #18 ISBN 0-87135-807-7	1991	On eBay ›
Essential Thor #1 ISBN 0-7851-0761-4	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 ISBN 0-7851-1267-7	2003	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #9192 of 125#93 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q24049999 (Freyja), first-appearance property (CC0)

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