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Thor #5 (LGY #731) — Cover A: Olivier Coipel | CBCS 9.8 White Pages Publisher: Marvel Comics | Release: June 10, 2020 Writer: Donny Cates | Interior Artist: Nic Klein | Colorist: Matt Wilson Cover Artist: Olivier Coipel | CBCS Cert #: PD-3C081A4-021 CBCS Grade: 9.8 Near Mint/Mint | White Pages This is Cover A of Thor #5 (Vol. 6, LGY #731) — graded a perfect 9.8 Near Mint/Mint with White Pages by CBCS — featuring Olivier Coipel's stunning cover depicting a mysterious figure wielding Mjolnir emerging from a deep cosmic darkness, dramatically lit against the cold void of space. One of the most atmospheric and foreshadowing covers of Donny Cates' entire Thor run, perfectly setting the tone for the landmark revelation within. Thor has forced a desperate bargain upon Galactus himself — binding the Devourer of Worlds to his will and sending him to consume the five heralds of a force so ancient and so vast that even Galactus trembles before it. Now, in the heart of the Black Winter's domain, the full terrible scope of this entity is revealed — and nothing in the Marvel Universe will ever be quite the same again. 🔑 KEY ISSUE — YES, MAJOR 1st full appearance of Black Winter — one of the most significant new Marvel cosmic entities introduced in the modern era; the Black Winter is a multiversal apocalyptic force responsible for the death of entire universes, revealed to be the very force that originally consumed Galactus's home universe before the Big Bang; a landmark addition to Marvel's cosmic mythology by one of its most celebrated writers Galactus appearance — the Devourer of Worlds plays a central and dramatically reimagined role in Donny Cates' Thor arc, with his backstory and relationship to the Black Winter fundamentally recontextualized in ways that resonate across the entire Marvel cosmic line Beta Ray Bill & Lady Sif appearance — key supporting characters in the arc Volstagg, Lockjaw, Thor & King Loki cameo Part of Donny Cates' landmark Thor run — widely regarded as one of the finest and most ambitious Thor creative runs of the modern era, notable for its epic cosmic scope, bold mythology-building, and genuinely surprising revelations about the nature of the Marvel Universe; Cates brought the same cosmic ambition that defined his celebrated Thanos Wins and Venom runs to the God of Thunder with extraordinary results Olivier Coipel Cover A — Coipel is one of the most prestigious cover artists in modern Marvel history, celebrated above all for his landmark run relaunching Thor alongside J. Michael Straczynski; his covers consistently rank among the most collectible in any lineup CBCS 9.8 White Pages — the highest commonly achievable grade from CBCS, combined with the highest tier of interior page quality; an exceptional copy of a significant modern Marvel cosmic key Ships in its CBCS slab, protected in a Gemini mailer.