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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published June 1969
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; Sentinel; Larry Trask
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Tom Palmer
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in X-Men Classics Starring the X-Men (Marvel, 1983 series) #1

15 page X-Men story "The Sentinels Live!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Iceman; Beast; GUESTS: Alex Summers; Lorna Dane [Polaris]; VILLAINS: Larry Trask; Judge Chalmers; Sentinels; Living Pharaoh; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Bolivar Trask
Synopsis Lorna is attacked by a Sentinel; Alex is paralyzed by his terrible and destructive new powers as the X-Men try to figure out how to help him; The Egyptian authorities arrive and the Living Pharaoh tells them to arrest the X-Men for the destruction of an ancient temple; Alex takes off in the conflict and is attacked by a Sentinel; Learning of the attack on Lorna, Iceman and Beast head back to the states to investigate; They catch a newscast where the son of Bolivar Trask proclaims to the world that the Sentinels are once again active and hunting for mutants.
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Tom Palmer
Colors Neal Adams
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Giant-Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 series) #2; in X-Men Classics Starring the X-Men (Marvel, 1983 series) #1

5 page Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!, The story "The Female of the Species!"

Characters Marvel Girl
Synopsis explanation of Marvel Girl's powers
Genre superhero
Script Linda Fite
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Sam Grainger
Letters Sam Grainger
Reprinted in Cat, The (Marvel, 1972 series) #4 (June 1973); in Giant-Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (1975); in Marvel Milestone Edition: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1991 series) #nn; in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #14