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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published March 1966
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Disputed penciler credit--Jack Kirby (layouts) Werner Roth (pencils) per Rich Donnelly, Steve Whitaker, and Bob Ford. Bob Ford asserts that someone other than Jack Kirby or Dick Ayers modified Magneto's face. Nick Caputo believes that the Magneto figure was pencilled by Kirby and the rest of the cover by Roth (GCD Error List 29 March 2007)

Cover Details - "If Iceman Should Fail!"

Characters Professor X; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman; Magneto
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (layouts); Werner Roth
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Disputed penciler credit--Jack Kirby (layouts) Werner Roth (pencils) per Rich Donnelly, Steve Whitaker, and Bob Ford. Bob Ford asserts that someone other than Jack Kirby or Dick Ayers modified Magneto's face. Nick Caputo believes that the Magneto figure was pencilled by Kirby and the rest of the cover by Roth (GCD Error List 29 March 2007)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #17; in X-Men Vol. 1, No. 18 (Marvel, 2004 series) #[nn]

20 page X-Men story "If Iceman Should Fail--!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Jean Grey; Angel; Beast; Iceman; GUESTS: Mr. Worthington; Mrs. Worthington; VILLAINS: Magneto; Toad; CAMEO: Stranger
Synopsis With the rest of the X-Men captured in a lead balloon, it is up to an injured Iceman to battle Magneto on his own; Once the X-Men escape Magento's trap, Professor X calls the Stranger who arrives on earth to collect his former captive.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Werner Roth [as Jay Gavin]
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #70; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #17; in X-Men Vol. 1, No. 18 (Marvel, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #8