The X-Men #37
From the pages of 1967 Marvel, The X-Men #37 puts our mutant heroes on trial — charged with nothing less than treason against Homo Superior — as a mysterious helmeted figure looms in the foreground, observing the team (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, and Angel) caught in a swirling confrontation within a glowing sphere. Above it all, a bald, anguished figure crackles with mental energy, while the cover boldly announces the X-Men's face-to-face reckoning with the macabre "Factor Three." With interior work by Roy Thomas, Ross Andru, and Don Heck, and a striking cover from the combined talents of Don Heck, John Romita, John Verpoorten, and Frank Giacoia, this issue promises both a courtroom drama among mutantkind and a bonus story featuring some of the X-Men's mightiest foes as jury.
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- First full appearance of the Mutant-Master — an alien from the Sirius system disguised in a humanoid costume — as the revealed leader of Factor Three.
- First appearance of Changeling (Kevin Sydney) under that codename; he had appeared unnamed in earlier issues (#35–36) but is formally identified and named here for the first time.
- Story title: 'We, the Jury…' — written by Roy Thomas, penciled by Ross Andru, inked by Don Heck, lettered by Artie Simek, edited by Stan Lee.
- The issue is the dramatic apex of the Factor Three storyline, one of the earliest sustained multi-part story arcs in X-Men history, running from approximately X-Men #28 through #39 (1967).
- The assembled 'jury' of pre-existing X-Men foes — the Blob (Frederick Dukes), the Vanisher (Telford Porter), Unus the Untouchable (Gunther Bain), and Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) — testifies against the captured X-Men in a mock trial, threatening them with death for 'betraying Homo superior.'
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) appears on a video screen showing a replay of a past battle, not in person.
- The issue was reprinted domestically as X-Men #85 (December 1973) and saw international reprinting in the British anthology Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) across issues #71–73 (June–July 1968), as well as in the German Hit Comics (BSV-Williams, 1966 series) #87.
- Cover art is attributed to Don Heck and Frank Giacoia, with documented alterations by John Romita and possible corrections by John Verpoorten on the Iceman figure — a notable production-history detail confirmed by multiple comics scholarship sources.
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Reprinted in Fantastic! #71 (1968), Fantastic! #72 (1968), Fantastic! #73 (1968), Hit Comics #87 (1969), Strange #37 (1973), The X-Men #85 (1973), X-Men Pocket Book #28 (1982), Spidey #53 (1984), The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #2 (1987), Marvel Special #14 (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #4 (2004), Essential Classic X-Men #2 (2006), The X-Men Omnibus #2 (2011), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #4 (2011), X-Men Epic Collection #2 (2016), X-Men: Children of the Atom #[3] (2019), Los Hombres X #35
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