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Non-free media data
Description	Cover of The Mighty Thor vol. 1, 126 (March 1966) Marvel Comics. Cover art by Jack Kirby & Vince Colletta
Source	Marvel Entertainment at [1]
Portion used	Full front cover as published.
Low resolution?	Low
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It illustrates educational articles about the comic-book series from which the cover illustration was taken, and which places the image within a historical, informational context. Comic books are a primarily visual medium, and an article on a comic-book series or its artists cannot adequately describe the topic without visual illustration. The image is from the cover of the historically significant first issue of The Mighty Thor upon its reformatting from Journey into Mystery The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book. It is a low-resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. The characters and the comic book are copyrighted, and so the image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Non-free media rationale for Vince Colletta
Article	Vince Colletta
Purpose of use	Illustration of a specific point within the article, discussing this artist's contribution
Replaceable?	No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

Non-free media rationale for Thor (Marvel Comics)
Article	Thor (Marvel Comics)
Purpose of use	Illustration of article topic, a comic-book series. Comic books are a primarily visual medium, and an article on a comic-book series cannot adequately describe the topic without visual illustration. The image is from the cover of the historically significant first issue of The Mighty Thor upon its reformatting from Journey into Mystery
Replaceable?	No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

Non-free media rationale for Thor (comic book)
Article	Thor (comic book)
Purpose of use	Illustration of article topic, a comic-book series. Comic books are a primarily visual medium, and an article on a comic-book series cannot adequately describe the topic without visual illustration. The image is from the cover of the historically significant first issue of The Mighty Thor upon its reformatting from Journey into Mystery
Replaceable?	No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters and a copyrighted publication, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

Licensing

This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that

the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate:
- the issue of the comic book in question;
- the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
- the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;
or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
- the scene or storyline depicted, or
- the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
where no free alternative exists or can be created,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:38, 29 July 2022		258 × 391 (101 KB)	NeoBatfreak (talk \| contribs)
	19:21, 1 October 2017	No thumbnail	258 × 387 (34 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	16:02, 21 September 2017	No thumbnail	300 × 450 (76 KB)	Fma12 (talk \| contribs)	300px size, per NFCC
	11:16, 10 March 2010	No thumbnail	325 × 490 (66 KB)	DASHBot (talk \| contribs)	Bot: Rescaling Fair Use Image (shutoff)

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Image title	THORCVR_1
Width	1,061 px
Height	1,500 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	125.2874 dpi
Vertical resolution	125.2874 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Macintosh
File change date and time	15:10, 16 March 2012
Exif version	2.21
Color space	Uncalibrated
Unique ID of original document	DE49E947D702B158C639C60368F70C71
Date and time of digitizing	06:07, 1 June 2007
Date metadata was last modified	11:10, 16 March 2012