The X-Men #19 [British]

(April 1966)

Lo! Now Shall Appear--The Mimic! (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Werner Roth (credited as Jay Gavin)

Inks

Dick Ayers (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Boy! One thing's for sure-- a Hawkeye I'm not!

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men: Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]
Blackie Barker (flashback); Vera Cantor (guest, first appearance); Zelda Kurtzberg (guest); Mimic [Calvin Rankin] (villain, first appearance, also origin in flashback); Dr. Ronald Rankin (death)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Bobby and Hank tussle with 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 them. Once he has absorbed all of their powers, he battles them and captures Jean. The team follows him to his hideout deep in an old mine. Mimic uses his powers to uncover a machine his father built that will allow him to keep the combined powers for good. Xavier allows Mimic to use the machine which doesn't give him powers but strips his mimic powers away.

Reprints

• in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1924 (1967)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #24
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #36 (21 October 1967) [Black and white. Reprints pages 1-11], #37 (28 October 1967) [Black and white. Reprints pages 12-20. A 'new' splash page is a paste-up of previously reprinted panels.]
• in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #69 (April 1971) [minus 0.3 page.]
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #19 (5 juillet 1971)
• in The X-Men Here Comes... Daredevil The Mighty Thor (Newton Comics, 1975 ? series) ([1975])
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #35 (10 décembre 1982)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7 ([November] 1988)
• in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #8 (Agosto 1996)
• in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 (September 1999) [black and white], #1 [Third Printing] (2003) [black and white]
• in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)
• in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 - Children of the Atom (2014)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Let's Visit the X-Men / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

? (illustrations)

Inks

? (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Dorothea Baker, Dean Crawford, Ken Kemp, Howard Tin, Dexter Musgrove, Ricardo Gonzalez, Wayne G. Mathicu, Glenn Payne, George H. Tucker Jr., Alan Gasior, and Craig Weatherly.