Comic Title: Journey into Mystery #87
Publisher: Marvel (Atlas Magazines, Inc.)
Address: 655 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1962
On Sale Date: October 2, 1962 Copyright Date October 2, 1962
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1962

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Stan Lee

Title: "Prisoner of the Reds"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Thor

Plotter: Stan Lee
Scripter: Larry D. Lieber
Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Artie Simek

Reprinted In:
Marvel Tales #5 (1966)
Spider-Man Comics Weekly #5 (1973)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 18:Thor Vol. 1 HC (1991)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 18:Thor Vol. 1 HC (2000)
Essential Thor Vol. 1 TPB (2001)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 18:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 HC (2003)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 18:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 HC [Variant] (2003)
Marvel Masterworks:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 TPB (2010)
Marvel Masterworks:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 TPB [Variant] (2010)
Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2011)
Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 1 HC [Variant] (2011)
Thor Epic Collection:The God of Thunder TPB (2014)
Mighty Marvel Masterworks:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 TPB (2021)
Mighty Marvel Masterworks:The Mighty Thor Vol. 1 TPB [Variant] (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Thor (last appearance in Journey into Mystery #86; next appearance in Journey into Mystery #88)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jane Foster (last appearance in Journey into Mystery #86; next appearance in Journey into Mystery #88)

Villain(s)

• Various communists (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• John Blandings and Sylvia (a scientist and his wife; no further appearances)
• Edward Harrison (a U.S. army colonel; no further appearances)
• Several scientists (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When several American scientists disappear, they are suspected of defecting. Don Blake sets himself up as bait to find the missing men. A communist posing as a photographer uses hypnotic gas to disable Blake. The doctor is then taken to a foreign country as a prisoner.

Blake finds the missing scientists, then he becomes Thor. Thor battles the communists. He briefly surrenders when the lives of the scientists are threatened. Ultimately, Thor escapes from his bonds, rescues the scientists, and destroys the communist stronghold.