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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published November 1964
Cover Price .12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; Unus
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #14 (January 1980); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #8; in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1

20 page X-Men story "Unus, the Untouchable!"

Characters The X-Men [Professor X (cameo); The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; Unus (1st); Mastermind
Synopsis After being attacked by a mutant hating crowd following his heroic rescue of a young boy, Beast gets fed up with protecting a humanity that fears and hates him and quits the X-Men; He becomes a professional wrestler but meets his match when he battles Unus, a mutant who cannot be touched; Unus is trying to leave show biz and join Magneto's Brotherhood so he takes on the X-Men as an initiation; The X-Men barely fend him off and, returning home, they find the Beast has constructed a machine that will actually increase Unus' powers; Thinking him a traitor, the X-Men try to prevent Hank from using the machine, but, once Unus has been zapped and powered up, he finds that he cannot even eat without the food being repelled out of his hands; Beast returns him to his former power level but with the promise that Unus will steer clear of Magneto.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Iceman changes from snowman form to ice form.
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #27 (July 1970); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #14 (January 1980); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #3; in X-Men: The Early Years (Marvel, 1994 series) #8; in Essential Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #5

1 page Special Pin-Up Page illustration "The Beast"

Characters The Beast
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #21 (July 1969); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #2 (January 1980)