The X-Men #140 for Sale - First Appearance of Eileen Parnall - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #140
Publication date: December 1980
Key date: 1980-12-00
On-sale date: 1980-08-26
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.50
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Eileen Parnall - 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	Fist to Fist with the Savage Fury of Wen-Di-Go!	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Dan Crespi	Georges Baptiste, James MacDonald Hudson, Logan, Narya, Nightcrawler, Eileen Parnall First, Snowbird, Vindicator, Kurt Wagner, Wendigo, Wolverine
2	Rage!	comic story	22	script: John Byrne, Chris Claremont; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Tom Orzechowski	Angel, Georges Baptiste, Blob, Colossus, Fred Dukes, Heather Hudson, James MacDonald Hudson, Stevie Hunter, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Narya, Nightcrawler, Eileen Parnall First, Professor X
6	Celebrate Marvel Comics 20th Anniversary	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
8	Subscribe to 4 Marvel Comics for the Price of 3!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: ?; typeset
11	-	letters page	1	script: Chris Claremont

Plus 10.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860246112
British	price 0.15 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
X-Men Classic #46	1990	On eBay ›
Essential X-Men #2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1	1997	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #5 ISBN 0-7851-1698-2	2005	On eBay ›
Wizard Wolverine Masterpiece Edition #1	2004	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

‹ #139140 of 141#141 ›

Sources

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

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