The X-Men #124 [Direct]
(August 1979)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860246108
Editing
Roger Stern (editor); Jim Salicrup (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Proletarian! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Dave Cockrum (signed as COCKRUM)
Inks
Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Don't you understand, Colossus?
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]]; The Proletarian [Piotr Rasputin]
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #124 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for The X-Men (1963 series) #124 [British] Cover Thumbnail for The X-Men (1963 series) #124 [Newsstand]
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

He Only Laughs When I Hurt! (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne (plot); Chris Claremont (plot, script)
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
Terry Austin
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Job Number
LG462
First Line of Dialogue or Text
To state the obvious: the X-Men are in a lot of trouble...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Maggia [Mr. Moran (cameo); Mr. Roak (flashback) (cameo)]; X-Men [Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (featured); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (featured); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (featured); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (featured); Wolverine [Logan] (featured)]; Arcade (flashback, origin) (antagonist); Captain Britain [Brian Braddock] (flashback) (cameo); Black Tom Cassidy (flashback); Mr. Chambers (antagonist); Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (featured); Hulk (android, destroid); Juggernaut [Cain Marko] (flashback); Miss Locke (antagonist); Magneto [Max Eisenhardt] (android, destroid); The Proletarian [Piotr Rasputin] (featured); Amanda Sefton (supporting); Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (flashback) (cameo); Betsy Wilford (supporting); Betsy Wilford (supporting); Colleen Wing (supporting)
Synopsis
The X-Men try to break Colossus of Arcade's conditioning and escape Murder World.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

X-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
Ricardo Villamonte
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
typeset
Characters
Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]; Colleen Wing; Mr. Osama
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Kathy Smith, David C. Zimmerman, and Ian Deeley.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Fun Factory / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Corgi / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Proletarian!
    X-Men
  2. 1. ["Battlestar Galactica"]
  3. 2. He Only Laughs When I Hurt!
    X-Men
  4. 3. ["Kryptonite rocks!!"]
  5. 4. ["Face front, frantic ones!"]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    X-Mail
  7. 6. ["Super gifts & gimmicks"]
    Fun Factory
  8. 7. ["Shhhh don't let Lois Lane find out you're a friend of Superman"]
    Corgi
  9. 8. ["A 23rd century odyssey now"]
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