- Letters
- typeset
Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 445,763. This is located after page 4 of the "If I Should Die...!" feature.
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Werner Roth (credited)
- Inks
- Herb Trimpe (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Al Kurzrok (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To tell the truth, we can think of no better way to begin our senses-shattering chapter, than to quote the very words of the evil mutant named Jack Winters from the final panels of last ish's thriller!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops [Scott Summers] (origin conclusion); Living Diamond [Jack Winters]
- Synopsis
- The Living Diamond is blasted into atoms in his attempt to destroy Professor X and Scott Summers. Afterward, Prof. X asks Scott to be the first member of his fledgling group whose goal is to create trust between humans and mutants.
- Reprints
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in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #103 -
in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #42 (5 juin 1973) -
in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #5 (April 1980) -
in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #58 (10 novembre 1984) -
in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #4 (March 1986) which is reprinted-
in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #4 (Luglio 1995) -
in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004) -
in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006) -
in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4 (2011) -
in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2011)
- Keywords
- ultra-sonic vibration-inducer
Scott is given a costume that includes a ruby quartz visor to help control his optic blasts.