Thor Epic Collection 10 The Eternals Sagaprhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302955540 Publication Date: 26 Nov 2024
496 pages
$44.99
One of the greatest Thor sagas of all time — and a must-have for Marvel fans!
The era of the Eternals is coming and it may mean death for all mankind! When Thor confronts Odin with questions about Ragnarok, his mother and the threat of the Celestials, the All-Father withholds the truth. A Thunder God must have answers, so Thor sets out on a quest that will bring him face-to-face with the Eternals and the towering Fourth Host of the Celestials! When the dust settles, the secrets of Marvel’s gods will be revealed, the true story of Destroyer’s creation will be told and gods young and old will die! Also featuring a Marvel adaptation of the classic “Der Ring des Nibelungen”!
Collecting: Thor #281-302, Annual #8, material from Marvel Treasury Edition #24, 26
Thor 281 is cover dated March 1979 the same month as Amazing Spider-Man 190, Avengers 181, Fantastic Four 204 & Uncanny X-Men 119.
Marvel's Battlestar Galactica started that month
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&sort=alpha&month=3&year=1979Thor 302 is cover dated December 1980 the same month as Amazing Spider-Man 211 & Annual 14, Avengers 202, Fantastic Four 225 & Uncanny X-Men 140.
Marvel Team Up reached issue 100, Doctor Who made his US comic debut in Marvel Premiere 57 and Boba Fett made his debut in Star Wars 42
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&sort=alpha&month=3&year=2009Cover Is: Thor 300
Title Is: An overall term for most of the material within
Before we go any further we need to talk about Thor & The Eternals: Celestials Saga
www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT200701This book was released alongside the Eternals Movie with two others, a collection of the Kirby Eternals, which comes before it, and some of their guest appearances alongside the mid 80s Limited Series, which come after it. It compiles two previous trades, Thor: The Eternals Saga volumes 1 & 2 and collects Thor 283-301, Annual 7. Those contents are *VERY* similar to this Epic.
From Thor & The Eternals: Celestials Saga we loose Annual 7: That's set before the rest of the story, the same month as Thor 275
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=9&year=1978&sort=alphaYou can find it in Thor Epic 9 Even An Immortal Can Die
The contents of Thor Epic Collection 10 The Eternals Saga are divided up as follows:
281-282 * PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED IN TPB *
283-291 Thor: The Eternals Saga volume 1 TPB
292-301 Thor: The Eternals Saga volume 2 TPB
302 & Annual 8 * PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED IN TPB *
(The issues missing in TPB have been collected in Marvel Masterworks)
So if you want a complete Thor run in Epics, but already have Thor & Eternals Celestials Saga you may well be buying this book through gritted teeth due to the amount of double dipping!
Here's what the Thor Epics look like now:
1 The God of Thunder 83-109
2 When Titans Clash 110-130 Annual 1
3 The Wrath of Odin 131-153 Annual 2
4 To Wake the Mangog 154-174
5 The Fall of Asgard 175-194
6 Into the Dark Nebula 195-216
7 Ulik Unchained 217-241
8 War of the Gods 242-259 Annual 5
9 Even An Immortal Can Die 260-280 Annual 6 & 7
10 The Eternals Saga 281-302 Annual 8
11 A Kingdom Lost 303-319 Annual 9-10
12 Runequest 320-336 Annual 11
13
14
15
16 War of the Pantheons 383-400
17 In Mortal Flesh 401-418 Annual 14
18 The Black Galaxy 419-436 Annual 15
19 The Thor War 437-450 Annual 16-17
20 The Final Gauntlet 451-467 Annual Thunderstrike #1, Thor Corps #1 – 4
21 Blood & Thunder 468-475 Annual 18, Silver Surfer #86 – 88, Warlock Chronicles #6 – 8, Warlock & Infinity Watch #23 – 25
22 Hel on Earth 476-490 Annual 19
23 Worldengine 491-502
24 The Lost Gods 503-513 & -1
25 The Dark Gods 1-13, Annuals 1998 & 1999 (due July 2025)
Thor has 3 Epics left to go pre Heroes Return reboot consisting of the entire Walter Simonson Thor run and they probably look like this:
Epic 13
337-353 Annual 12
(Avengers 249?)
Epic 14
354-367 Annual 13
Baldar 1-4
Epic 15
368-382
Marvel Graphic Novel: Whom Gods Would Destroy
Epic 25 takes us into the Thor volume that starts with Heroes Return and runs to Avengers Disassembled
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8826&page=gallery85 issues, 4 annuals
Heroes Return Thor is probably the easiest of the 5 Heroes Return series to look at for Epics: it's been thoroughly collected more than once, Thor's material has been collected into the start of Heroes Return and we've got Thor Modern Epic 1 telling us that starts from the JMS run.
Thor's previous collections of this material, while complete, are "an eclectic mix" of trade formats which overlaps in places
First we have 4 numbered volumes published after the fact in 2009 & 2010
The later issues were published in trade more contemporary to their original publication, all of which were then recollected in the early 2010s
There's been two big Omnibuses of the Thor Heroes Reborn material
The material is pretty common between them we're on reasonably firm ground about what NEEDS to be collected here:
Thor 1-85, Annuals 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #2 And #11
Iron Man (1998) #21 (B Story), #22 & #64
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day
Avengers (1998) #63
And Material From
* Marvel Double-Shot #1
That's somewhere in the region of 100 issues worth: 5 Epics
There's also a number of Limited Series that can serve as potential extras should Marvel need to manipulate things a bit
