X-Men Annual #5 [Direct]
(1981)

Marvel, 1970 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
annually
On-sale Date
1981-07-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Indicia title reads "X-Men™ Annual Vol. 1 No. 5", cover title is "King-Size Annual! X-Men™."
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #3.
This issue has variants:

Ou, La La... Badoon! (Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Brent Anderson (signed as ANDERSON)
Inks
Brent Anderson (signed as ANDERSON)
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Novak
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Storm; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Sprite [Kitty Pryde]]; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Badoon (villains)
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Ou, La La -- Badoon! (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 39 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Brent Anderson
Inks
Bob McLeod
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ahem! Benjamin, did I or did I not send you to tell Reed and Johnny that dinner was ready?
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Sprite [Kitty Pryde]]; Arkon; Sashia; Imperions; D'syndri (first appearance, death); Moira MacTaggert; Franklin Richards; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Jim; the Grand Vizier; Brotherhood of Badoon (villains); Brother Royal (villain, death); the Monster of Badoon (villain, death)
Synopsis
The X-Men and the Invisible Girl travel to Arkon's world to save the rest of the FF (who have been captured) and free Arkon's people from a Badoon invasion.
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Indexer Notes

Story in X unnumbered but separately titled parts: "Ou, La La -- Badoon!" (12 pp.), "The Sundered Realm?" (4 pp.), "And Now -- Armageddon!" (20 pp.), "The Passing of the Dream" (3 pp.); the entire issue is without page numbers.

A Lesson to Be Learned! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Cup Cakes; The Thing / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Ou, La La... Badoon!
    X-Men
  2. 1. Ou, La La -- Badoon!
    X-Men
  3. 2. A Lesson to Be Learned!
    Hostess Cup Cakes; The Thing
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