The X-Men #125 for Sale - First Appearance of Araki - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #125
Publication date: September 1979
Key date: 1979-09-00
On-sale date: 1979-06-19
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0714860246109
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Magda Eisenhardt - 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	The Dramatic Return of Phoenix!	cover	1	pencils: Dave Cockrum; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Jim Novak	Colossus, Lorna Dane, Jean Grey, Havok, Kevin MacTaggert, Jamie Madrox, Multiple Man, Ororo Munroe, Phoenix, Polaris, Proteus, Piotr Rasputin, Storm, Alex Summers
2	There's Something Awful on Muir Island!	comic story	17	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Orzechowski	Angel, Araki First, Banshee, Beast, Sean Cassidy, Colossus, Cyclops, Lorna Dane, Bobby Drake, Erik Lehnsherr, Jean Grey, Havok, Iceman, Magda Eisenhardt First
3	-	letters page	1	script: Chris Claremont	Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman
4	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Black Goliath, Bill Foster

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Classic X-Men #31	1989	On eBay ›
Essential X-Men #2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1	1997	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #7	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

‹ #124125 of 141#126 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q111537277 (Araki), first-appearance property (CC0)

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