This panel is indicative of this whole crazy issue where Merlin comes back from a 1000 year sleep to

This panel is indicative of this whole crazy issue where Merlin comes back from a 1000 year sleep to try to take over the US. He reveals he’s no magician at all but actually a mutant, hunts for JFK who was the president (shown in this panel) and fights Thor, who’s hammer for some reason is depicted with a long handle through this whole issue. It’s filled with a trip to Cape D’Or, a random bus saving at the beginning, cops who don’t believe he’s Merlin, the Washington momument turned into a javelin… This is a comic!

Journey Into Mystery #96 from 1963
Story by Stan Lee, Script by R. Burns
Art by Joe Sinnott