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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published January 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman]; Master Mold
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #16

20 page X-Men story "The Supreme Sacrifice!"

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman]; Sentinels; Master Mold; Dr. Bolivar Trask (Death)
Synopsis With the X-Men captured, Xavier heads back to investigate a fallen Sentinel to try and figure out what stopped it; The X-Men escape and battle the Sentinels but it is the timely intervention of Professor X and the self sacrifice of Dr. Trask that stops Master Mold and saves the day.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby layouts; Werner Roth (as Jay Gavin) pencils
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #69; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #7; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #16; in X-Men (K. G. Murray, 1970 series) #2; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #6