The X-Men
#27
(December 1966)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-10-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Re-Enter: The Mimic!
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
Mimic [Calvin Rankin] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in ComicOrama Jumbo des Super-Heros (Editions Héritage, 1985 series) #282 -
in Los Hombres X (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1966 series) #25 -
in X-Men Pocketbook (Marvel UK, 1981 series) #23 -
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1939 (1968) - in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #50 (27 January 1968)
-
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #39 -
in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Marvel, 1987 series) #2 (July 1987) - in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 1998 series) #[3] (January 2002)
- in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006) [black and white]
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #3 (2011)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - Lonely Are the Hunted (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Roth pencils per Steve Whitaker, Nick Caputo, Carl Gafford, and Michael Evans. The original indexer credited Roth and Jack Kirby.
![Cover Thumbnail for The X-Men (1963 series) #27 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1496/w100/1496466.jpg?7294277545715789034)
Re-Enter: The Mimic!
X-Men / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Werner Roth (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nope, Marvelite... You haven't missed an ish!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo flashback); Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (cameo flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo flashback); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo flashback)
X-Men: Angel [Warren Worthington III] (also in flashback); Beast [Hank McCoy] (also in flashback); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (also in flashback); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (also in flashback); Marvel Girl [Jean Grey] (also in flashback); Mimic [Calvin Rankin] (joins the team, also in flashback); Professor X [Charles Xavier] (also in flashback)
Vera Cantor (flashback); Zelda Kurtzberg (flashback); Puppet Master [Phillip Masters] (also in flashback); Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff] (flashback); Ted Roberts (flashback); Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] (flashback); Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (flashback); Defender (introduction, an android) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in ComicOrama Jumbo des Super-Heros (Editions Héritage, 1985 series) #282
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1939 (1968)
- in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #50 (27 January 1968)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #39
- in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #51 (3 February 1968)
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #27 (5 mars 1972) - in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #75 (April 1972) which is reprinted
- in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #43 (10 août 1983)
-
in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #12 (Novembre 1997) - in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 1998 series) #[3] (January 2002)
- in Giant-Size X-Men (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([August] 2005) [1 story page]
- in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006) [black and white]
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #3 (2011)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - Lonely Are the Hunted (2016)
-
Pulse-Pounding Pronouncements, Passionately Philosophical, Preposterously Profound, and Particularly Prepared for Permanent Oblivion!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 2 pages
- Characters
- Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Cyclops; Iceman; Angel
- Reprints
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from: AFC James E. Guernsey, Guy H. Lillian III, Steve Frederick, Barbara Chung, Joe Negvesi, Jr., Michael Polo, and Patricia Turner; M.M.M.S. membership form.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Re-Enter: The Mimic!
X-Men -
1.
Re-Enter: The Mimic!
X-Men -
2.
Pulse-Pounding Pronouncements, Passionately Philosophical, Preposterously Profound, and Particularly Prepared for Permanent Oblivion!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box -
4.
["American Basic Science Club's master lab..."]
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5.
["Attention all super-hero fans - here are the new Aurora hobby kits you've been waiting for!"]
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