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Issue Details

Issue #113
Published September 1978
Cover Price $0.35
Pages 36
Editing Roger Stern
Notes 1st Byrne cover in X-Men. Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Cover Details - "When Falls Magneto!"

Characters Storm; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Banshee; Magneto
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Bob Layton
Letters Dan Crespi
Notes 1st Byrne cover in X-Men. Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #19; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1

17 page X-Men story "Showdown!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Beast; Lilandra; VILLAINS: Magneto; Nanny I; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Achmed El-Gibar
Synopsis The X-Men escape their prison chairs and face down Magneto himself; During the fight, the controls of Magneto's base are destroyed filling the whole place with lava; Phoenix saves Beast, but the rest of the team are apparently trapped in the molten fire deep beneath the snows of Antarctica.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-Plot) Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Annette Kawecki
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #19; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1; in X-Men: The Movie (Marvel, 2000 series) #nn; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #7