The X-Men #3

Dates

Cover date

January 1964

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition12¢ cover

  This edition’s page
• UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

  British

  Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].

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Publisher’s description

The story opens with the X-men training in the schools gymnasium. Today Scott Summers is practicing the speed at which he can blast bean bags that are being launched at him by the Beast. The other boys are involved with some one-upmanship and roughhousing until Professor X calls them to order. Jean's task is to move a block of wood through a series of obstacles as quickly as possible. Their training is interrupted when Professor X detects the presence of another mutant nearby.

Reprinted in

The Super-Heroes (1975), Amazing Adventures (1979), Essential Uncanny X-Men (1999), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967), Fantastic Annual (1967), Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles (1978), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Uncanny X-Men Masterworks (1993), X-Men: The Early Years (1994), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2002), X-Men: Children of the Atom (2005), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2009), The X-Men Omnibus (2009), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), X-Men Epic Collection (2014), X-Men: Children of the Atom (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2021), X-Men (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2023)