Issue Description

Banshee's premier issue starts off with him as an apparent villain, teamed up with Ogre who is working for Factor Three. However while Ogre is working on a way to track the X-men, Banshee goes into town, stealing a priceless painting called Gaelic Landscape.

The X-men are testing Mimics powers after Professor X enhanced the range in which Mimic must be in order to "mimic" a mutants power. After the tests are finished, Professor X uses Cerebro to look for mutant activity. He discovers Banshee stealing imported tobacco.

Ogre, with the help of Banshee launches a unsuccessful kidnap attempt on the Professor X. After a silver-age style epic battle, the X-men capture Banshee and defeat Ogre. It is then revealed that Banshee was controlled by Ogre through one of his many gadgets.

This issue ends on the note that Factor Three is still out there....

This story is reprinted in Essential Classic X-Men Vol. 2

The X-Men

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

The X-Men Volume 1

The comic that started it all for the X-Men. For the first 66 issues, the series starred the team of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Professor Xavier, with Havok and Polaris joining near the end of the run.

Unfortunately, due to falling sales and lack of interest for the comic, the series started publishing reprints from earlier adventures with issue #67. This kept on up to issue #93. With X-Men issue #94, the New X-Men team was brought into the comic after they had starred in their first adventure in Giant-Size X-Men issue #1. Beginning with issue #114 the descriptive "Uncanny" was added to the cover treatment but it wasn't until issue #142 that the volume's official name was permanently changed to Uncanny X-Men. The series continues in The Uncanny X-Men with issue #142.

Collected EditionsMarvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 1 (#1-10)X-Men Epic Collection: Children of the Atom (#1-23)Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 2 (#11-21)Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 3 (#22-31)Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 4 (#32-42)Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 5 (#43-53)Avengers Omnibus Volume 2 (#45)Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, Vol. 6 (#54-66)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1 (#94-100)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 2 (#101-110)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 3 (#111-121)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 4 (#122-131)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 5 (#132-140)Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 6 (#141-150)X:Men: Proteus (#125-128)X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (#129-137)X-Men: Days of Future Past (#138-141)

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