The X-Men #130 - First Appearance of Alison Blaire, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #130
Publication date: February 1980
Key date: February 1980
On-sale date: 1979
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0714860246102
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Alison Blaire - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Dazzler - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance of White Queen - 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 Debut of the Dazzler!	cover	1	pencils: John Romita Jr.; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Dan Crespi, Jim Salicrup	Alison Blaire First, Cyclops, Dazzler First, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner
2	Dazzler	comic story	17	script: Chris Claremont, John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Tom Orzechowski	Black King, Alison Blaire First, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler First, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Professor X, Carmen Pryde, Kitty Pryde
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Rom
5	-	letters page	1	letters: typeset

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
Direct	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Classic X-Men #36	1989	On eBay ›
The Dark Phoenix Saga: The Uncanny X-Men #2 ISBN 0-939766-96-5	1984	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 ›
The Uncanny X-Men #[nn] ISBN 0-939766-96-5	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #4 ISBN 0-7851-1630-3	2004	On eBay ›
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-2213-3	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #129130 of 141#131 ›

Sources

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

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