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Issue: What If? #27

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Publication Date: July 1981

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Issues: #27 of 47 Issues (93 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 03/10/1981

Volume: 1

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: Written in the indicia: Featuring the X-Men.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 What If? #27 [Direct]

What If? #27 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In8

3 Content Items

reprinted 5 times as/in other Issues.

1 Content Item
- What If Phoenix Had Not Died? [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

X-Men Winter Special #[1981] published January 1981 as What If Phoenix Had Not Died? [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:

What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2021

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

What If Phoenix Had Not Died?

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): X-Men [Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Colossus [Peter Rasputin]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Wolverine [Logan]]

First Line: The X-Men ask:

Reprinting

In Issue:

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga #[nn] published June 2010

In Issue:

What If? Classic #5 published ?

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

What If Phoenix Had Not Died?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Inker(s): ? (pages 22-25, 27-30, 32, 33)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, superhero

Character(s): Watcher [Uatu]; X-Men [Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Colossus [Peter Rasputin]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Havok [Alex Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Phoenix [Jean Grey] (also as Dark Phoenix, also as Marvel Girl in flashback); Polaris [Lorna Dane]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Sprite [Kitty Pryde]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Wolverine [Logan]]; Shi'ar [Lilandra Neramani; Imperial Guard [Earthquake; Gladiator [Kallark]; Manta; Oracle [Sybil]; Smasher [Vril-Rokk]; Starbolt] (flashback)]; Galactus [Galan]; Terrax [Tyros]; Senator Robert Kelly; Sentinels; Aramans (aliens); Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Avalanche [Dominikos Petrakis]; Blob [Fred Dukes]; Pyro [St. John Allerdyce]] (flashback); Firelord [Pyreus Kril] (flashback); Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde] (flashback); Henry Peter Gyrich (flashback)

First Line: I am the Watcher, one of a race of timeless beings who have dedicated themselves to observing the events that transpire on all the myriad inhabited worlds across the universe.

Reprinting

In Issue:

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga #[nn] published June 2010

In Issue:

What If? Classic #5 published ?

In Content Item: Flag

X-Men Winter Special #[1981] published January 1981
as What If Phoenix Had Not Died? [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 34

Notes: Based on The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #137 (September 1980).

Kree Encounter!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, superhero

Character(s): Watcher [Uatu]; Sentry #213; Eternals [Arlok; Astron; Shastra; Uranos]; Kree [Har-An; Ro-Tar; Talos (voice)]

First Line: I am the Watcher, and for untold eons it has been my duty to observe and record all significant events in your solar system...

Reprinting

In Issue:

What If? Classic #5 published ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Continued in #28.

Spider-Man vs. the Human Computer!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Computer; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Comics ad for Hostess Cup Cakes from Continental Baking Company.