The X-Men #63 for Sale - First Appearance of Lorelei - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #63
Publication date: December 1969
Key date: 1969-12-00
On-sale date: 1969-10-14
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Lani Ubanu - 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 Triumph of Magneto!	cover	1	pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Tom Palmer; colors: Neal Adams; letters: Sam Rosen	Beast, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Iceman, Ka-Zar, Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto, Hank McCoy, Kevin Plunder, Scott Summers
2	War in the World Below!	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas, Neal Adams; pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Tom Palmer; letters: Sam Rosen	Amphibius, Angel, Barbarus, Beast, Brainchild, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Gaza, Jean Grey, Iceman, Ka-Zar, Erik Lehnsherr, Lorelei First, Lupo
3	A Sagacious Smattering of Somewhat Senseless Small-Talk!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
4	2 More Triumphs From Marvel!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Sal Buscema, Jack Kirby; inks: Sam Grainger, Bill Everett
5	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Tom Palmer	Angel; Beast; Sauron; Sentinel

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

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
X-Men Classics Starring the X-Men #3	1984	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #3	1987	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #6 ISBN 0-7851-2056-4	2006	On eBay ›
Essential Classic X-Men #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-3060-4	2009	On eBay ›
X-Men #63 [JC Penney Marvel Vintage Pack] #[nn]	1994	On eBay ›
X-Men: Visionaries 2: The Neal Adams Collection #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0198-5	1996	On eBay ›
The X-Men Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-5307-8	2011	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #6263 of 141#64 ›

Sources

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

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