CATALOG RECORD
The X-Men #8
first appearance of Unus the Untouchable
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Unus the Untouchable (Gunther Bain, Angelo Unuscione) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- November 1964
- On sale
- September 1, 1964
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Uncanny Threat of... Unus, the Untouchable! · 20 pages
After being attacked by a mutant hating crowd, Beast gets fed up and quits the X-Men. He becomes a professional wrestler but meets Unus, a mutant who cannot be touched. Unus is trying to join Magneto's Brotherhood so he takes on the X-Men. The X-Men barely fend him off and find Beast has constructed a machine that will actually increase Unus' powers. The X-Men try to prevent Hank from using the machine, but, once Unus has been zapped, he finds that he cannot even eat without the food being repelled out of his hands. Beast returns him to normal and Unus promises to will steer clear of Magneto.
Characters
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Fantastic! (1967), Essential Uncanny X-Men (1999), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967), The Super-Heroes (1975), Amazing Adventures (1979), X-Men Pocket Book (1981), Marvel Masterworks (1987), X-Men: The Early Years (1994), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2009), The X-Men Omnibus (2009), X-Men Epic Collection (2014), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), X-Men: Children of the Atom (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2021), X-Men (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2023)