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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published January 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Disputed inker credit--Sol Brodsky per Nick Caputo, Bob Ford, and the original indexer; Paul Reinman per Steve Whitaker; Frank Giacoia per Carl Gafford.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; The Blob
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky?
Notes Disputed inker credit--Sol Brodsky per Nick Caputo, Bob Ford, and the original indexer; Paul Reinman per Steve Whitaker; Frank Giacoia per Carl Gafford.
Reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles (Simon and Schuster, 1978 series) #nn; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #5 (April 1980); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3; in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1

24 page X-Men story "Beware of the Blob!"

Characters The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; The Blob (1st)
Synopsis Professor X detects a new mutant and sends the X-Men to investigate; They arrive at a carnival and encounter the Blob, a very fat sideshow attraction who can bounce bullets off of his malleable hide as well as anchor himself to the earth and become immovable; The X-Men bring him back to the mansion as a potential member but the Blob spurns their invitation and returns to the carnival; Realizing that the Blob knows their secret, the X-Men lure him back to the mansion where Xavier wipes his memory.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #22 (September 1969); in Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles (Simon and Schuster, 1978 series) #nn (1978); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #5 (April 1980) [pp. 1-12]; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #6 (May 1980) [pp. 13-24]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3 (1987); in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #3 (July 1994); in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 [black & white reprint]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #3