The X-Men #123 for Sale - First Appearance of Alexei Vazhin - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #123
Publication date: July 1979
Key date: 1979-07-00
On-sale date: 1979
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0714860246107
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Alexei Vazhin - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Roger Stern - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Glynis Oliver - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Centurion - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Arcade's Murder World	cover	1	pencils: Terry Austin; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Dan Crespi	Arcade, Banshee, Sean Cassidy, Colossus, Cyclops, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Peter Parker, Piotr Rasputin, Spider-Man, Storm, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner
2	"Listen--Stop Me If You've Heard It--But This One Will KILL You!"	comic story	17	script: John Byrne, Chris Claremont; pencils: John Byrne, Terry Austin; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Tom Orz	Arcade, Terry Austin, Banshee, Sean Cassidy, Mister Chambers, Chris Claremont, Colossus, Cyclops, Miss Locke, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Glynis Oliver First, Peter Parker
4	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Nighthawk
6	-	letters page	1	script: Chris Claremont

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	See the GCD record for identification notes.
British	price 0.12 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Classic X-Men #29	1989	On eBay ›
Essential X-Men #2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1	1997	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #6	1988	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #4 ISBN 0-7851-1630-3	2004	On eBay ›
The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-2101-3	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #122123 of 141#124 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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