| Characters |
FEATURE: The X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman; GUESTS: Zelda; Vera (1st); VILLAIN: Mimic [1st; Calvin Rankin; Origin] |
| Synopsis |
The X-Men are off to take a vacation when Bobby and Hank tussle with the mysterious Calvin Rankin who beats them by mimicking their powers; Calvin then has an encounter with Jean at a restaurant; Realizing he is dealing with the X-Men, Calvin follows Jean home and asks to join the X-Men; once he has absorbed all of their powers, however, he battles them and captures Jean; The team follows him to his secret hideout deep in an old mine where Mimic uses their combined powers to uncover a machine his father built that will allow him to keep the X-Men's combined powers for good; Realizing something at the last minute, Xavier allows Mimic to use the machine which doesn't givie him powers but, rather, strips his mimic powers away. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Stan Lee |
| Pencils |
Werner Roth (as Jay Gavin) |
| Inks |
Dick Ayers |
| Letters |
Artie Simek |
| Reprinted |
in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #69; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #8 |