Comic Title: Essential Thor Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: Marvel
Cover Date: 2001
On Sale Date: March 7, 2001 Direct Market Date February 21, 2001
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #11 (#143), Vol. 10 #12 (#144)

Direct Market Date March 7, 2001
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Direct Market Date March 7, 2001
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: March 7

Direct Market Date March 7, 2001
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of March 9, 2001

Cover Price: $14.95
Page Count: 528
Editor: Ben Abernathy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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 From:
Journey into Mystery #87 (1962)

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.