1st Marvel Multiverse? JIM 86 splash up at Heritage 0

[Phill the Governor]

Early Marvel canon has been of interest to me lately and I've been reading quite a few early issues from all the main A B & C level characters. I've also been reading through various websites that talk about them. On one website (link below) there was a comment on Journey into Mystery #86 that mentioned it was the first alternate future in the Marvel universe. So if I'm reading correctly it's the introduction of the Marvel Multiverse?

As timing would have it, I just saw the title splash from that story is up at Heritage and ends in a week.  Reading the description, Heritage isn't listing the issue as the beginning of the Multiverse. Well.. to be fair there doesn't seem to be much of a description at all.. (one would think for an early Thor splash they would be trying to list all the attributes about the art they could instead of just a few sentences but maybe I'm wrong.) Anyways.... was it another book that officially introduced the Multiverse concept? Considering Tomorrow Man showed up more than a year before Kang I think it really is JIM #86. Any Marvel experts that can lend an opinion?  If so, any thoughts about this affecting final price or is the fact that it's one of the earliest Thor splashes enough?

This was the site, link here

The splash at HA: link here

 

[MAR1979]

On 8/31/2022 at 1:02 PM, Phill the Governor said:

Early Marvel canon has been of interest to me lately and I've been reading quite a few early issues from all the main A B & C level characters. I've also been reading through various websites that talk about them. On one website (link below) there was a comment on Journey into Mystery #86 that mentioned it was the first alternate future in the Marvel universe. So if I'm reading correctly it's the introduction of the Marvel Multiverse?

As timing would have it, I just saw the title splash from that story is up at Heritage and ends in a week.  Reading the description, Heritage isn't listing the issue as the beginning of the Multiverse. Well.. to be fair there doesn't seem to be much of a description at all.. (one would think for an early Thor splash they would be trying to list all the attributes about the art they could instead of just a few sentences but maybe I'm wrong.) Anyways.... was it another book that officially introduced the Multiverse concept? Considering Tomorrow Man showed up more than a year before Kang I think it really is JIM #86. Any Marvel experts that can lend an opinion?  If so, any thoughts about this affecting final price or is the fact that it's one of the earliest Thor splashes enough?

This was the site, link here

The splash at HA: link here

 

 

Mjolnir lost all ability for time travel in Thor 282.  Its very sad that I know that,  even more sad than the writer of the first link you provided not knowing it.

Edited August 31, 2022 by MAR1979

[comix4fun]

On 8/31/2022 at 3:23 PM, MAR1979 said:

 

Mjonir lost all ability for time travel in Thor 282.  Its very sad that I know that,  even more sad than the writer of the first link you provided not knowing it.

It's ok, I hear that happens to a lot of hammers. Nothing to be ashamed of. 

 

[KirbyCollector]

Solution

Edited August 31, 2022 by KirbyCollector

[ThothAmon]

At times Mjolnir is a burden. 

[MAR1979]

On 8/31/2022 at 5:31 PM, comix4fun said:

It's ok, I hear that happens to a lot of hammers. Nothing to be ashamed of. 

 

Thanks. I had heard it was not that common, does not happen to all hammers and it is a big deal

Edited August 31, 2022 by MAR1979

[Will_K]

On 8/31/2022 at 7:03 PM, MAR1979 said:

it was not that common and it does not happen to all hammers and it is a big deal

 

[MAR1979]

Thor 282 - Mjolnir permanently looses the Time Travel mojo.  Excellent art IMHO by Pollard/Marcos

 

 

Edited August 31, 2022 by MAR1979

[The Voord]