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Issue Details

Issue #58
Published July 1969
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Disputed inker credit--Tom Palmer per Steve Whitaker, Nick Caputo, Carl Gafford, and Bob Ford; Neal Adams per the original indexer.

Cover Details

Characters Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; Havok
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Tom Palmer?
Letters Typeset
Notes Disputed inker credit--Tom Palmer per Steve Whitaker, Nick Caputo, Carl Gafford, and Bob Ford; Neal Adams per the original indexer.
Reprinted in X-Men Classics Starring the X-Men (Marvel, 1983 series) #1

20 page X-Men story "Mission: Murder!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; GUESTS: Havok [1st in costume; Alex Summers]; Lorna Dane [Polaris]; VILLAINS: Larry Trask; Judge Chalmers; Sentinels; CAMEOS: Banshee; Mesmero; Magneto Robot; Living Pharaoh
Synopsis Sentinels attack Beast and Iceman and Bobby sacrifices himself so that Hank can escape; Angel flies back to the states with Cyclops and Jean following close behind; Iceman is taken to Trask's Sentinel base where he meets up with Lorna and Alex, now called Havok with a containment suit built by Trask; Sentinels gather mutants from around the world and bring them to Trask; Fearful of Larry's methods, Chalmers takes the medallion from around his neck and the Sentinels refuse to follow their master as he is revealed to be a mutant.
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Tom Palmer
Colors Neal Adams
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Giant-Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 series) #2 [minus 1 p.]; in X-Men Classics Starring the X-Men (Marvel, 1983 series) #1