Thor in JIM 120-123 vs FF@ 3 and A 22

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Thor in JIM 120-123 vs FF@ 3 and A 22

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There seems to be a few discrepancies in your listings for characters who appear in FF@3, mostly regarding Thor. This is probably due to the discrepancies in the Official Index for Thor and the one for the Avengers.

The story in A 22 establishes that it occurs during TOS 72 which is also confirmed by the index for the Avengers. Both references also state that it occurs during JIM 122, but the narrative in A 22 states that Thor is returning to Asgard, which never happens in JIM 122, but occurs in JIM 123 instead, most likely an error that Stan missed and which was repeated in the index. Same index says that FF@ 3 precedes A 21-22 for the Enchantress and Giant-Man (BTS in FF@ 3); Therefore, listing for those two works fine:

ENCHANTRESS/AMORA/"HELEN EVE"/"LEENA MORAN"/"CHRISTINE COLLINS"
...
JIM 117
FF@ 3 (1 - 12:3)
M/H&L '96 (2 - 9:3)
FF@ 3 (12:4 - 14:4)
M/H&L '96 (12 - 24)-BTS
FF@ 3 (14:5 - 19:4)
M/H&L '96 (28 - 42:1)
FF@ 3 (19:6 - 22:2)
A 21
A 22
...

GIANT-MAN/DR. HENRY JONATHAN PYM
...
ASM@ 37/2
FF@ 3-BTS
A 22
TTA 77
...

But in index for Thor, things get messed up. While it confirms Thor's appearance in A 22 in JIM 122, it states that FF@ 3 occurs after JIM 123. You can't have FF@ 3 placed after A 22 for Thor while it is placed before for everybody else. in your listing, you solved this by presuming that his appearance in A 22 was a flashback:

THOR/THOR ODINSON/"DR. DONALD BLAKE"/"SIGURD JARLSON"/"JAKE OLSON"/"LOREN OLSON"
...
JIM 120 (7:4 - 16)
JIM 121
JIM 122 (1 - 2)
A 22-FB
JIM 122 (3 - 16)
JIM 123
FF@ 3 (1 - 12:3)
M/H&L '96 (2 - 9:3)
FF@ 3 (14:5 - 22:3)
M/H&L '96 (45:2 - 45:4)
FF@ 3 (23)
MARVELS 2 (33)
JIM 124
JIM 125

Without your interpretation that it is a flashback, the official indices are in contradiction. Except for that addition in A 22, the sequence complies with official references But my major concern is that storywise, it doesn't explain why Thor cannot go back to the Avengers to help with their team current crisis which occurs way after he showed up in FF@ 3 in the general timeline.

My hypothesis is that the item in JIM 123 saying that he next appears in FF@ 3 is a mistake. In his chronology pages, StrayLamb has found some way to order those issues with a better result by placing FF@ 3 in the long gap between JIM 120 (12:5) and (12:6) where Thor comes back to Earth after an extended stay in Asgard. And since he only travels to Asgard in JIM 123, A 22 is placed between pages 2 and 3 where he's walking on the Rainbow Bridge. So listing for Thor could go this way:

THOR/THOR ODINSON/"DR. DONALD BLAKE"/"SIGURD JARLSON"/"JAKE OLSON"/"LOREN OLSON"
...
JIM 120 (7:4 - 12:5)
FF@ 3 (1 - 12:3)
M/H&L '96 (2 - 9:3)
FF@ 3 (14:5 - 22:3)
M/H&L '96 (45:2 - 45:4)
FF@ 3 (23)
MARVELS 2 (33)
JIM 120 (12:6 - 16)
JIM 121
JIM 122
JIM 123 (1 - 2)
A 22
JIM 123 (3 - 16)
JIM 124
JIM 125
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