The X-Men #81
(April 1973)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1973-01-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #92, December 1972.
This issue has variants:

The Outcast! (Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane; Werner Roth; John Romita (see notes)
Inks
Gil Kane; Sol Brodsky ? (see notes)
Colors
Bill Everett
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl; Angel; Iceman; Beast]; Juggernaut
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Bill Everett biographer, Blake Bell, has a photograph of Everett coloring this cover.

The original Gil Kane version of this cover had the Outcast as villain, but was rejected by the Comics Code as being too frightening. The Juggernaut's face replaced the Outcast, and is likely a Werner Roth stat with Romita touch-ups. Iceman is also redrawn/revised by Romita with possible Brodsky inks. Information provided and updated by Nick Caputo, July 2012. The original indexer credited John Tartaglione as inker.

Sources for letters credit are The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981), 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).

Into the Crimson Cosmos! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Roy Thomas (credited)
Pencils
Werner Roth (credited)
Inks
John Tartaglione (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited)
Editing
Stan Lee (original editor)

Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Hank McCoy]]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Ancient One; Juggernaut [Cain Marko]; Outcast [Xorak] (introduction); Factor Three
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Outcast!
    X-Men
  2. 1. Into the Crimson Cosmos!
    X-Men
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David B
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Merlin Haas
  • Steve Jenner
  • Darrel McCann
  • Steven Rowe
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore