The X-Men #48

(September 1968)

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Beware Computo Commander of the Robot Hive! (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Arnold Drake (credited)

Pencils

Don Heck (credited) (breakdowns); Werner Roth (credited)

Inks

John Verpoorten (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Irv Watanabe (credited as I. Watanabe)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Carlo, you ordered four models for this beachwear job--and you've just used only the new one, Jean Grey!

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]]; Quasimodo (villain); Computo (villain, introduction, death); Cybertrons (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis

Scott shows off his new workplace, a radio station, to Jean when a trio of robots arrives with the objective of stealing radio equipment.

Reprints

• in HIP Classics (Classics/Williams, 1969 series) #19130 (1969)
• in Los Hombres X (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1966 series) #46 (Octubre 31 de 1969)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #130
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #49 (5 janvier 1974)
• in The Thing Is Big Ben Summer Special (Marvel UK, 1984 series) (Summer 1984)
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #65 (juin 1985)
• in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #16 (Marzo 1999)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5 ([August] 2005)
• in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006)
• in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2011)
• in True Believers: Phoenix Presents Cyclops & Marvel Girl (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (February 2018)

Indexer Notes

Sources for particularization of Heck pencils credit are The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Olshevsky 1987), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994), and Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Vandal et al. 2009).

Yours Truly the Beast (Table of Contents: 3)

Beast / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Arnold Drake (credited)

Pencils

Werner Roth (credited)

Inks

John Verpoorten (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Irv Watanabe (credited as I. Watanabe)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The essence of the strange powers with which nature has endowed me--

Genre

superhero

Characters

Beast [Hank McCoy]

Reprints

• in HIP Classics (Classics/Williams, 1969 series) #19130 (1969)
• in Los Hombres X (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1966 series) #46 (Octubre 31 de 1969)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #130
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #49 (5 janvier 1974)
• in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #11 (October 1980)
• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1980 series) #36 (1981)
which is reprinted
• in Die Spinne (Condor, 1987 series) #35
• in The Thing Is Big Ben Summer Special (Marvel UK, 1984 series) (Summer 1984)
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #65 (juin 1985)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5 ([August] 2005)
• in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006)
• in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2011)
• in Marvel Classic (Panini France, 2011 series) #6 (avril 2012)

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Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

Werner Roth; Don Heck (illustrations)

Inks

John Tartaglione; John Verpoorten (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Beast; Cyclops; Juggernaut; Human Torch; Iceman

Reprints

• in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Includes a letter from Tony Isabella.

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