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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1963
Frequency bimonthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes First Appearance of X-Men and Magneto. Disputed inker credit--Sol Brodsky per Nick Caputo, Bob Ford, and the original indexer; Frank Giacoia per Carl Gafford; Paul Reinman per Steve Whitaker.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; Magneto
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky?
Notes First Appearance of X-Men and Magneto. Disputed inker credit--Sol Brodsky per Nick Caputo, Bob Ford, and the original indexer; Frank Giacoia per Carl Gafford; Paul Reinman per Steve Whitaker.
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #22 (September 1969); in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1975 series) #nn; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 [black & white reprint]; in Target X-Men Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #nn; in Custom: Deal - Fox Home Entertainment (X-3 Stan Lee Comic) (Marvel, 2006 series) #1; in Marvel Mini Comic Book X-Men #1 (Marvel, 2003 series) #nn

23 page X-Men story "X-Men"

Characters Professor Charles Xavier (first appearance); X-Men [Cyclops (first appearance); Beast (first appearance); Angel (first appearance); Iceman (first appearance); Marvel Girl [Jean Grey; first appearance]]; Magneto (1st for all appearances)
Synopsis After a day of training and meeting Jean Grey, a new student at Professor X's school, the X-Men go one their first assignment--stopping a mutant named Magneto from talking over an Air Force base.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Comic includes 2 full page house ads for Amazing Spider-Man #4 and Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #3.
Reprinted in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #1 (18 February 1967) [pages 1-10]; in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #2 (25 February 1967) [pages 11-23]; in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #2; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1975 series) #nn; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #1 [pp. 1-12]; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #2 [pp. 13-23]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #1; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 [black and white reprint]; in Target X-Men Classic (Marvel, 2006 series) #nn; in Custom: Deal - Fox Home Entertainment (X-3 Stan Lee Comic) (Marvel, 2006 series) #1; in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #1 [part 1]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #3; in Marvel Mini Comic Book X-Men #1 (Marvel, 2003 series) #nn; in X-Men: We Are The X-Men (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]