- Script
- John Byrne (plot); Chris Claremont (plot, script)
- Pencils
- John Byrne
- Inks
- Terry Austin
- Colors
- Françoise Mouly
- Letters
- Rick Parker
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As I claimed this she-mutant's life, X-Men-- so shall I claim yours!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Banshee [Sean Cassiday]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]]; GUESTS: Ka-Zar; Zabu; Nereel; Fall People; Tandy Snow [Queen Tandylla]; VILLAINS: Sauron; Zaladane; Garokk; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Beast [Henry McCoy]
- Synopsis
- The X-Men fight Sauron until he transforms back to Karl Lykos. Ka-Zar shows up and he and Karl tell the X-Men the tale of Zaladane awakening Garokk. Cyclops decides to leave the Savage Land rather than help as he fears for Xavier's safety. The way back to the surface world is blocked by ice as the Savage Land begins to undergo a terrible change.
- Reprints
- in Spécial Strange (Editions Lug, 1975 series) #20 (10 juin 1980) [Moins 1 page/Minus 1 page]
- in Prosjekt X (Semic, 1984 series) #1/1984 (uke 45 1984) [minus page 1]
- in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #4 (1986)
- in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #21 (May 1988) [added pages]
which is reprinted- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 ([September] 1993)
- in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #7 (Giugno 1996)
- in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 ([October] 1996) [black and white]
- in X-Men : l'intégrale (Panini France, 2002 series) #1977-1978 (décembre 2002)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #3 ([March] 2004)
- in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Segunda Génesis (Abril 2011)
- in X-Men Classic (Panini France, 2012 series) #1 (mars 2012)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
- Keywords
- The Savage Land
Picks up plot threads from the cancelled Ka-Zar series. Tandy Snow [Queen Tandylla] appearance added per note in Jeff Christianson's Master List (http://www.marvunapp.com/master/sn.htm).
- Script
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- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from readers Sim Pertuit, Ms. T. J. Morgan and Brian Nelson.