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Hank McCoy

2,248 appearances · Silver Age · 1963–2026 · 110 key issues
Who is Hank McCoy?

Born with abnormally large hands and feet, Henry Philip McCoy was a mutant gifted with superhuman strength and agility from birth. His exceptional intellect earned him a place among Charles Xavier's first class of X-Men, where he began his lifelong journey as both hero and scientist.

Few Marvel characters have endured with such remarkable staying power as Hank McCoy — a founding X-Man who stepped onto the page in the very first issue of The X-Men in 1963, born from the legendary creative partnership of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby at the dawn of the Silver Age. Over more than six decades, he has remained a cornerstone of the X-Men's world, logging nearly 1,900 catalog appearances across The X-Men, The Uncanny X-Men, and beyond, sharing countless adventures with fellow icons like Cyclops, Wolverine, and Iceman. With 110 key-issue appearances to his name, collectors have long recognized that where Hank McCoy shows up, history tends to get made. If you're building a serious X-Men collection, this is a character whose thread runs through virtually the entire tapestry of Marvel's mutant saga.

Identity

Real name. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy

Powers. Superhuman strength, agility, and dexterity; ape-like physiology; later mutated into blue furred/feline form; genius-level intellect and scientific brilliance.

Teams & affiliations
X-MenAvengersX-Factor
★ First appearance
The X-Men #1
Sep 1963

Trivia

  • Beast wasn't always the blue-furry powerhouse collectors know today — his striking appearance is the direct result of a self-experimentation gone wrong, when an early serum-driven transformation permanently locked in what became his iconic mutation.marvel.fandom.com
  • Chris Claremont has written more of Hank McCoy's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 109 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1963–2022

The X-Men #1 1963
The X-Men #1
The X-Men #40 1968
The X-Men #40
Giant-Size X-Men #1 1975
Giant-Size X-Men #1
The Avengers Annual #7 1977
The Avengers Annual #7
The Avengers Annual #10 1981
The Avengers Annual #10
Fantastic Four #286 1986
Fantastic Four #286
X-Men Annual #14 1990
X-Men Annual #14
X-Men Chronicles #1 1995
X-Men Chronicles #1
X-Men: Children of the Atom #4 2000
X-Men: Children of the Atom #4
Astonishing X-Men #4 2004
Astonishing X-Men #4
Wolverine & the X-Men #1 2011
Wolverine & the X-Men #1
Age of Ultron #10 2013
Age of Ultron #10
X-Men: Blue #2 2017
X-Men: Blue #2
Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute #1 2022
Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute #1

Appearances (1,051–1,200 of 2,248, oldest first)

The Uncanny X-Men (1981)
X-Men The Hidden Years (1999)
Cable (1993)
#92
Wolverine (1988)
X-Treme X-Men (2001)
Marvel Heroes Hors Série (2001)
#7
Thunderbolts (1997)
#55
X-Men 2001 (2001)
Heroes (2001)
#1
Iceman (2001)
#1
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine (2001)
#11
Fantastic Firsts (2002)
Marvel Universe: Millennial Visions (2002)
#1
Giant Size Mini-Marvels: Starring Spidey (2002)
#1
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land (2002)
Spider-Man : l'intégrale (2002)
Wizard Ace Edition: Uncanny X-Men #94 (2002)
Exiles (2001)
#14
Marvel Klassik (1998)
#13
Avengers (1998)
X-Men hors série (2001)
#10
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers - Barnes & Noble Edition (2003)
#1
Uncanny X-Men (2003)
#1
Avengers Legends (2002)
#2
Ultimate Spider-Man (2001)
X-Men Unlimited (1993)
Marvel : Les origines (2002)
Emma Frost (2003)
#6
New Mutants (2003)
#10
Excalibur (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men 2004 (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2004 (2004)
Cable & Deadpool (2004)
Astonishing X-Men (2004)
Cable / Deadpool (2004)
Essential Super-Villain Team-Up (2004)
#1
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The End of History (2004)
X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David (2005)
#1
Avengers Finale (2005)
#1
Marvel Holiday Special 2004 (2004)
#1
X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic (2005)
#2
Avengers: Above and Beyond (2005)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men 2005 (2005)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 (2005)
New X-Men: Academy X (2004)
#2
Best of Marvel : Fantastic Four - Retour aux sources (2005)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Teams 2005 (2005)
Giant-Size X-Men (2005)
#3
Essential X-Men (1996)
#6
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 (2005)
Avengers: The Serpent Crown (2005)
Rogue: Forget-Me-Not (2005)
Best of Marvel : X-Men - L'ère d'Apocalypse (2005)
#1
Iron Man: House of M (2005)
Astonishing X-Men No. 4 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (2005)