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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published November 1968
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes First use of the iconic block-lettered X-Men logo as created by Jim Steranko.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl]; Polaris
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Steranko
Inks Jim Steranko
Colors Jim Steranko ?
Letters Jim Steranko (logo design)
Notes Possible Steranko color credit by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #16

15 page X-Men story "City of Mutants"

Characters The X-Men [Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl]; Lorna Dane; Mesmero (Villain); Demi-Men (Villain); Magneto Robot (Villain; Introduction)
Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Jim Steranko
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters Herb Cooper
Reprinted in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #16

5 page Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! (The) story "This Boy--This Bombshell!"

Characters Beast (origin continued); Hank McCoy (as young child and teenager); Norton McCoy; Edna McCoy; Uncle Bob; El Conquistador (name revealed in next issue; Villain; Introduction); Chico (name revealed in next issue; Introduction)
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks John Verpoorten
Letters Herb Cooper
Notes The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 13, origin of the Beast part 2, page 1 of this story is not reprinted in the Amazing Adventures #17 and X-Men: Mutations #nn reprints.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5; in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 [black & white]; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (March 1973) [pages 2-5]; in X-Men: Mutations (Marvel, 1996 series) #nn (1996) [pages 2-5]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #12 (Novembre 1997) [abridged]