The X-Men #41 for Sale - First Appearance of Grotesk - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #41
Publication date: February 1968
Key date: 1968-02-00
On-sale date: 1967-12-12
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Grotesk - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

First appearance of Krono - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

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	Now Strikes the Sub-Human!	cover	1	pencils: Don Heck; inks: George Tuska; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen	Beast, Bobby Drake, Grotesk First, Iceman, Hank McCoy
2	Now Strikes...the Sub-Human!	comic story	15	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Don Heck; inks: George Tuska; letters: Sam Rosen	Angel, Beast, Vera Cantor, Changeling, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, Grotesk First, Iceman, Krono First, Zelda Kurtzberg, Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy, Scott Summers
3	The Living Diamond!	comic story	5	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Werner Roth; inks: John Verpoorten; letters: Sam Rosen	Cyclops, Jack O'Diamonds, Scott Summers, Jack Winters, Professor X, Charles Xavier
4	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
5	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: George Roussos	Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The X-Men #89	1974	On eBay ›
Amazing Adventures #4	1980	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #4	1986	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #2	1987	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #4 ISBN 0-7851-1607-9	2004	On eBay ›
Essential Classic X-Men #2 ISBN 0785121161	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #4041 of 141#42 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q13564951 (Grotesk), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q111375856 (Krono), first-appearance property (CC0)

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