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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published December 1994
Cover Price 1.50
Pages 36
Editing Suzanne Gaffney (reprint); Stan Lee (original)

Cover Details

Characters Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; Unus
Genre superhero
Pencils Tom Raney
Inks Tom Raney
Letters Typeset

20 page X-Men story "The Uncanny Threat of Unus the Untouchable"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; VILLAIN: Unus; Mastermind; CAMEO: Professor X
Synopsis After being attacked by a mutant hating crowd following his heroic rescue of a young boy, Beast gets fed up with protecting a humaity that fears and hates him and quits the X-Men; He becomes a professional wrestler but meets his match when he battles Unus, a mutant who cannot be touched; Unus is trying to leave show biz and join Magneto's Brotherhood so he takes on the X-Men as an initiation; The X-Men barely fend him off and, returning home, they find the Beast has constructed a machine that will actually increase Unus' powers; Thinking him a traitor, the X-Men try to prevent Hank from using the machine, but, once Unus has been zapped and powered up, he finds that he cannot even eat without the food being repelled out of his hands; Beast returns him to his former power level but with the promise that Unus will steer clear of Magneto.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Evelyn Stein
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #8 (November 1964)

1 page X-Men cover reprint (on interior page) "Original Cover to X-Men #8"

Characters Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; Unus
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Evelyn Stein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted from X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #8 (November 1964)