X-Men Annual
#3
[Direct]
([August] 1979)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- annually
- On-sale Date
- 1979-11-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860293895
- Editing
- Roger Stern (credited as R. Stern) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited as J. Shooter) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
Indicia title: X-Men™ Annual Vol. 1 No. 3; cover title: King-Size Annual! X-Men™
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Awesome Attack of Arkon!
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Frank Miller (signed as
MILLER) - Inks
- Terry Austin (signed as
austin) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Wolverine [Logan]
Arkon - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4 -
in X:en specialalbum (Semic, 1986 series) - in The X-Men Companion (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (September 1982)
-
in X-Men, Les étranges (Editions Lug, 1983 series) #1 - Descente aux enfers (1er trimestre 1983) -
in Projekt X album (Interpresse, 1985 series) #1 - Skyggedøden (1985) [Edited reprint but signed Miller and Austin - so might be from original pre-cover art] -
in Prosjekt X årsalbum (Semic, 1985 series) #1986 (1985) [edited], #1986 (1985) [edited] - in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 (May 1988)
- in X-Men: Danger Room Battle Archives (Marvel, 1996 series) ([August] 1996)
- in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #3 (July 1998) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004)
- in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
-
in Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - Días del Futuro Pasado - in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
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A Fire in the Sky!
X-Men / comic story / 35 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- George Pérez (credited)
- Inks
- Terry Austin (credited); John Byrne (sourced) (p. 37)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as G. Wein)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited as Tom Orz)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What'cha got there, Izzy?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers: Captain America [Steve Rogers] (flashback) (cameo); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (flashback) (cameo); Thor [Thor Odinson] (flashback) (cameo)
X-Men: Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (featured); Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (featured); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (featured); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (featured); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (featured); Wolverine [Logan] (featured)
Arkon (antagonist) (also in flashback); Grand Vizier Greybeard (antagonist) (also in flashback); Edwin Jarvis; Isadore Uhman; Irmagarde Uhman; Warlord (villain); Sashia (antagonist, introduction); Imperions (antagonist) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The X-Men battle Arkon and are transported to his world where they are asked to help save it.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4
- in X-Men, Les étranges (Editions Lug, 1983 series) #1 - Descente aux enfers (1er trimestre 1983) [Moins/Minus 1 page] which is reprinted
- in X-Men, Les étranges (Semic S.A., 1995 series) #1 ([octobre 1995])
-
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #18 (Dezembro 1983) - in Projekt X album (Interpresse, 1985 series) #1 - Skyggedøden (1985) [Pages 4, 9, 10 and 11 edited out from original story]
- in Prosjekt X årsalbum (Semic, 1985 series) #1986 (1985) [minus pages 4, 9, 10 and 11]
-
in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #7 (1986) - in La Patrulla-X Especial Primavera (Planeta DeAgostini, 1987 series) #1988 (abril 1988)
- in X-Men: Danger Room Battle Archives (Marvel, 1996 series) ([August] 1996)
-
in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #11 (Agosto 1997) - in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #3 (July 1998) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004)
- in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - Días del Futuro Pasado
- in X-Men: Children of the Atom (Marvel, 2019 series) #[7] - X-Men: Bronze Age Vol. 2 - Magneto Triumphant (2019)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
- in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #39 - Foudre cosmique (mars 2022)
-
- Keywords
- Avengers Mansion; Danger Room; Dimensional Transport Bolt; Manhattan; New York City; Polemachus; Salem Center; Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Indexer Notes
Story takes place between X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #124 and 125 and is broken into three parts, with part 2 titled Rogue in the House (16 pages) and part 3 titled Land of Shadow -- Dawn of Death! (15 pages).
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