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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published October 1968
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Who Dares Defy -- the Demi-Men?"

Characters X-Men [Cyclops; Angel; Beast; Iceman; Marvel Girl]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Steranko (signed)
Inks Jim Steranko (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #14

15 page X-Men story "Who Dares Defy the Demi-Men?"

Characters Lorna Dane (Introduction); Mesmero (Villain; Introduction); Demi-Men (Villain; Introduction)
Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Don Heck; Werner Roth
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters Herb Cooper
Notes X-Men rejoined as a team
Reprinted in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #16

5 page Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! (The) story "A Beast Is Born"

Characters The Beast (Origin beginning); Hank McCoy (as baby); Norton McCoy (Beast's father); Edna Andrews McCoy (Beast's mother); Bob (Norton McCoy's uncle)(introduction); Paul Martin (introduction)
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks John Verpoorten
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 12, origin of the Beast part 1, page 1 of this story is not reprinted in the Amazing Adventures #17 and X-Men: Mutations #nn reprints.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5; in Essential Classic X-Men (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 [black & white]; in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (March 1973) [pages 2-5]; in X-Men: Mutations (Marvel, 1996 series) #nn (1996) [pages 2-5]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #12 (Novembre 1997) [abridged]