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Issue: The X-Men #5

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Publication Date: May 1964

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Issues: #5 of 141 Issues (246 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.

On Sale Date: 03/03/1964

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 The X-Men #5 [U.S. Cover Price]

The X-Men #5 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (3 total)

The Angel Is Trapped!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): X-Men [Angel [Warren Worthington]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]]; The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Toad; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Mastermind]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Unaltered stats of this cover have been published in various reprints, including Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume Three, 1987; the original version had no highlights on the Angel and different Cyclops, Marvel Girl and Iceman figures. Possible Severin alterations on The Angel per Nick Caputo.

Sources for letters credit are The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Olshevsky 1987), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994), and Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Vandal et al. 2009).

Trapped: One X-Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): X-Men [Professor X [Professor Charles Xavier; Angel [Warren Worthington]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]]; GUESTS: John Grey; Elaine Grey; VILLAINS: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Magneto; Toad; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Mastermind]

First Line: Last issue, while battling Magneto and his evil mutants, Professor Xavier was injured and seemed to have lost his great mental powers!

Synopsis: With Xavier's mental powers gone, the X-Men try to decide how they will function without his leadership. Trying to ferret out the X-Men, Magneto has the Toad enter an athletic event where he leaps to victory. With the crowd turning hostile due to the Toads amazing abilities, the X-Men arrive on the scene to capture him. Magneto snags Angel and whisks him away to Asteroid M. In an attempt to trade the Toad for Angel, the X-Men arrive on Asteroid M where they battle the Brotherhood once again. On their safe return to Earth, Xavier reveals that his power loss was a ruse to test his students.

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Pages: 24

Job Number: X-668

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Let's Visit the X-Men

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Pages: 1

Notes: First letters page. Includes Special Announcements Section.