The X-Men
#48
(September 1968)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-07-16
- 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
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
What Waits... Within the Hive?
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Romita
- Inks
- John Romita
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (Cyclops and Marvel Girl Logo); Herb Cooper (sourced) (caption)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #356 [Insert panel and re-coloured] -
in Los Hombres X (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1966 series) #46 (Octubre 31 de 1969) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #107 ([circa 1971])
-
in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Marvel, 1987 series) #3 (September 1987) - in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5 ([August] 2005)
- in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2006) [black and white]
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2011)
- in True Believers: Phoenix Presents Cyclops & Marvel Girl (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (February 2018), #1 (February 2018)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Sentinels Live (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Romita ink credit by Nick Caputo. Sal Buscema is incorrectly credited with pencils in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1987), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1994), and Official Index to the Marvel Universe.
Rosen credits per Nick Caputo, June 2012.
Beware Computo Commander of the Robot Hive!
X-Men / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Arnold Drake (credited)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (credited) (breakdowns); Werner Roth (credited) (finished pencils)
- 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
- Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Quasimodo (villain); Computo (villain, introduction, death); Cybertrons (villain, introduction, death); Carlo; Candy; Mr. Dane
- 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, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1966 series) #46 (Octubre 31 de 1969)
-
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #130 - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #107 ([circa 1971])
-
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) [black and white]
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2011)
- in True Believers: Phoenix Presents Cyclops & Marvel Girl (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (February 2018)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Sentinels Live (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
Beast / comic story / 5 pages
- 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, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 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 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) [black and white]
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2011)
- in Marvel Classic (Panini France, 2011 series) #6 (avril 2012)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Sentinels Live (2018)
-
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box / letters page / 2 pages
- 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
Indexer Notes
Letter from: Masao Kono, Barbara Schumann, Bruce Coville and Charles Smart, Tom Drake, Tony Isabella, Werner Leupold, and Bob Cox.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
What Waits... Within the Hive?
X-Men -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Beware Computo Commander of the Robot Hive!
X-Men -
3.
Yours Truly the Beast
Beast -
4.
["Items of incredible import to illuminate your interest, invigorate your imagination, and intoxicate your id!"]
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox -
5.
[no title indexed]
Mutant Mail-Box -
6.
["America's greatest values in science labs and courses!"]
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7.
["Boys, girls, men, women"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- David B
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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