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Issue Details

Issue #78
Published October 1972
Cover Price 0.20
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Disputed inker credit--Frank Giacoia per Nick Caputo and Jim Starlin, Mike Esposito per Steve Whitaker. Erroneously credited to Joe Sinnott in Sinnott's record books. Nick Caputo believes someone in addition to Tuska penciled the cover, perhaps over a Gil Kane layout.

Cover Details - "The Menace of Merlin!"

Characters The X-Men; Iceman; The Angel; Cyclops; Marvel Girl; The Beast; Merlin
Genre superhero
Pencils George Tuska
Inks Frank Giacoia?; Mike Esposito?
Notes Disputed inker credit--Frank Giacoia per Nick Caputo and Jim Starlin, Mike Esposito per Steve Whitaker. Erroneously credited to Joe Sinnott in Sinnott's record books. Jim Starlin believes he may have provided the cover layout for George Tuska.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #7; in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 [black & white]

20 page The X-Men story "The Menace of Merlin!"

Characters The X-Men; Cyclops; Marvel Girl; The Beast; Iceman; The Angel; Merlin; Professor X
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters Artie Simek
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Orignal title: "The Warlock Wakes"
Reprinted from X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #30