The X-Men
#28
(January 1967)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-11-03
- 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:
The Wail of the Banshee!
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Werner Roth
- Inks
- John Tartaglione
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?; Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (sourced) (top caption); Morrie Kuramoto (sourced) (bottom caption)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Mimic [Calvin Rankin]
Banshee [Sean Cassidy] - 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) #26 -
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1947 (1968) -
in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #53 (17 February 1968) -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #47 -
in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Marvel, 1987 series) #2 (July 1987) - in X-Men #28 [JC Penney Marvel Vintage Pack] (Marvel, 1994 series) ([1994])
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: X-Men #28 (Marvel, 1994 series) (November 1994)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 1998 series) #[3] (January 2002), #[3] (January 2002) [cover]
- 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)
- in L'ère des Comics Marvel 1961-1978 (Taschen, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2021 series) #3 (27) - Divided We Fall [Direct] (2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Roth pencils per Steve Whitaker, Nick Caputo, Carl Gafford, and Michael Evans. The original indexer credited Werner Roth with Jack Kirby.
![Cover Thumbnail for The X-Men (1963 series) #28 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1418/w100/1418400.jpg?-1274111597058122272)
The Wail of the Banshee!
X-Men / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Werner Roth (credited)
- Inks
- John Tartaglione (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited) (pages 1-7); Sam Rosen (sourced) (uncredited, pages 8-20)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New Yorkers are well-accustomed to clamorous sounds...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Factor Three: Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (introduction); Ogre [Brian Dunlap] (introduction)
X-Men: Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Mimic [Calvin Rankin]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]
Ted Roberts; Factor Three (introduction); Mr. Jones; Mrs. Von Brahmin - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in ComicOrama Jumbo des Super-Heros (Editions Héritage, 1985 series) #282
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1947 (1968)
- in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #52 (10 February 1968) [Black and white, pages 1-8 only.], #53 (17 February 1968), #54 (24 February 1968)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #47
-
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #28 (5 avril 1972) - in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #76 (June 1972) which is reprinted
- in X-Mannen Classics (Classics/Williams, 1971 series) #25 (1973)
-
in X-mændene (Williams, 1973 series) #1/1973 (1973) - in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #44 (10 septembre 1983)
- in X-Men #28 [JC Penney Marvel Vintage Pack] (Marvel, 1994 series) ([1994])
- in Marvel Milestone Edition: X-Men #28 (Marvel, 1994 series) (November 1994)
-
in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #12 (Novembre 1997) - 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
Tartaglione inks per Nick Caputo, who notes the correcting credit was used when reprinted in # 76. Lettering credits provided by Rodrigo Baeza.
The Latest Low-Down on Marvel's Light-Hearted Luminaries for Literature Lovers at Large!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 2 pages
- Characters
- Beast; Iceman; Cyclops
- Reprints
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([April] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Shirley Gorman, Dennis Clark, Mark Campbell, Jack Mayberry, Vincent Klemm, Rob Liberman, Barry Smith (not the artist), and Jerelyn Ryan; M.M.M.S. membership form.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Wail of the Banshee!
X-Men -
1.
The Wail of the Banshee!
X-Men -
2.
The Latest Low-Down on Marvel's Light-Hearted Luminaries for Literature Lovers at Large!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box
This issue was modified by, among others
- David B
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Adam Knights
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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