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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published February 1969
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men (Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl); Blastaar
Genre superhero
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks Mike Esposito

15 page X-Men story "The Rage of Blastaar!"

Characters The X-Men (Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl); Blastaar (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks Mike Esposito [Michael Dee]
Letters Herb Cooper
Notes Barry Windsor-Smith's 1st U.S. artwork.

5 page Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! (The) story "Welcome To the Club, Beast!"

Characters O: Beast (conclusion); Hank McCoy (as teenager); GS: Professor X; X-Men [Cyclops; Iceman; Angel]; Norton McCoy; Edna McCoy; V: El Conquistador; Chico
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters Jean Simek
Notes The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 16, origin of the Beast conclusion, page 1 is not reprinted in the Amazing Adventures #17 and X-Men Mutations #nn reprints, next chronological appearance in X-Men #1.
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]

2 page Mutant Mail-Box letters page

Notes Includes a letter from Mark Gruenwald and Roy Thomas.