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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published December 1965
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman]; Sentinels
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #68; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #15

20 page X-Men story "Prisoners of the Mysterious Master Mold!"

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast (Origin); Iceman]; Sentinels; Master Mold; Dr. Bolivar Trask; Edna McCoy; Norton McCoy
Synopsis The X-Men invade the Sentinel's underground complex but are captured; Beast is taken before the Sentinel's leader, Master Mold, and has his mind probed; Master Mold commands Trask to make an army of Sentinels so they can take over the world.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby layouts; Werner Roth (as Jay Gavin) pencils
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Story continued in X-Men 16
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #68; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #15; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #6