CATALOG RECORD
The X-Men #31
first appearance of Candy Southern and Cobalt Man
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Candy Southern (Marvel) — first appearance, last name spelled Sothern in this appearance
- Cobalt Man (Ralph Roberts) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- April 1967
- On sale
- February 14, 1967
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #31 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition10d [0-0-10 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 10d [0-0-10 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- We Must Destroy... the Cobalt Man! · 20 pages
The X-Men are given a weekend off and head out for some fun. Cyclops and Angel visit Jean in college and find her engaged with brothers Ted and Ralph Roberts. Ralph, who used to work for Tony Stark, takes them all to his lab where he puts on his new Cobalt Man suit to impress his brother. Going a little batty, Cobalt Man wrecks the lab and heads out to Stark Industries to confront his old boss. The X-Men assemble to battle him before his suit becomes radioactive and blows up.
Characters
Reprinted in
Fantastic! (1967), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (1998), Essential Classic X-Men (2006), The X-Men Omnibus (2009), Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2009), X-Men Epic Collection (2014), X-Men: Children of the Atom (2019)