The X-Men #15

(December 1965)

Prisoners of the Mysterious Master Mold! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited) (layouts); Werner Roth (credited as Jay Gavin) (pencils)

Inks

Dick Ayers (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Sentinels have spotted us!

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men [Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy] (origin, also in flashback); Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Professor X [Charles Xavier] (also in flashback)]; Master Mold (introduction); Edna McCoy (introduction, flashback); Norton McCoy (introduction, flashback); Dr. Bolivar Trask; Sentinels; Charlie (flashback)

Synopsis

The X-Men invade the Sentinel's underground complex but are captured. Beast is taken before the Sentinel's leader, Master Mold, and has his mind probed. Master Mold commands Trask to make an army of Sentinels so they can take over the world.

Reprints

• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #28 (26 August 1967) [Black and white, First half of story, pages 1 to 10 only.], #29 (2 September 1967) [Second half of story, pages 11 to 20, reprinted.]
• in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #68 (February 1971)
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #15 (5 mars 1971)
• in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #32 ([August 1976])
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #31 (10 août 1982)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7 ([November] 1988)
• in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #15 (July 1995)
• in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #6 (Aprile 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)

Indexer Notes

Story continued in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #16.

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

Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist / 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

Werner Roth (illustration)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

X-Men [Cyclops; Angel; Beast; Professor X]

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters from: James Potter, Perry Parson, Ken Seen, Alvin Grinage, Joe Ruscetta Jr., Al Chin, James Allan, Byron Werner, Jimmy Faiz, Rich Van Der Horn, and Monty Cummings.