X-Men Annual
#1
(December 1970)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly except December, semi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-07-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Indicia title: X-Men, Vol. 1 No. 1; cover title: King-Size Special! X-Men™. On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
[no title indexed]
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- 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]
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Giant Man [Hank Pym]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor [Don Blake] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
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from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (January 1965) - in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #7 ([October] 2008)
- in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2009)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #4 - It's Always Darkest before the Dawn (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Sources for letters credit are The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Olshevsky 1987), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994), and Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Vandal et al. 2009).
Enter, the Avengers
X-Men / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; The Avengers [Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Thor; Captain America; Iron Man; Wasp]; Lucifer (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Xavier has tracked down Lucifer, who cost him the use of his legs, but finds his foe's heartbeat is rigged to a giant thermal bomb. The X-Men arrive in Bavaria and run across the Avengers who have also just arrived. The X-Men have to stop the Avengers from defeating Lucifer since by defeating Lucifer, the world will be destroyed. After Xavier gives Lucifer a mind blast that renders him unconscious, he contacts his team for help and the Avengers agree to let the X-Men clean up the current crisis on their own. Cyclops uses his eye beams to disable Lucifer's thermal bomb.
- Reprints
- from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (January 1965)
-
The Triumph of Magneto
X-Men / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy]]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]]; The Stranger (first appearance); Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde]; Toad [Mortimer Toynbee]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maxinmoff]]; Charlie (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Xavier detects a powerful entity has arrived on earth and sends the X-Men to investigate. The Stranger tries to acclimate himself to Earth customs but runs across Magneto and the Brotherhood. The X-Men arrive on the scene and battle the Brotherhood, but the Stranger leaves with Magneto and Toad in the conflict. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch decide to return home to Central Europe. The X-Men encounter the Stranger again and Xavier realizes he is an alien. The Stranger explains that he has been collecting mutants from across the universe and takes Magneto and Toad away with him into space.
- Reprints
- from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #11 (May 1965)
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