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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published April 1967
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Marvel Girl figure swiped from Jack Kirby per Carl Gafford.

Cover Details

Characters Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Cobalt Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Dan Adkins (signed)
Inks Dan Adkins (signed)
Notes Marvel Girl figure swiped from Jack Kirby per Carl Gafford.

20 page X-Men story "We Must Destroy...the Cobalt Man!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Professor X; GUESTS: Candy Southern (1st; Spelled Sothern); Ted Roberts; Zelda; Vera; VILLAIN: Cobalt Man [1st; Ralph Roberts]; CAMEO: Iron Man
Synopsis The X-Men are given a weekend off and head out for some fun; Cyke and Angel visit Jean in college and find her engaged with brothers Ted and Ralph Roberts; Ralph, who used to work for Tony Stark, takes them all to his lab where he puts on his new Cobalt Man suit to impress his brother; Going a little batty, Cobalt Man wrecks the lab and heads out to Stark Industries to confront his old boss; The X-Men assemble to battle him before his suit becomes radioactive and blows up.
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #79; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #13