Collectibles: Comics, Sports, Tobacciana
Lot 195:
Description
This comic book is published by the Marvel Comics Group, titled The Uncanny X-Men, issue number 139, with a cover date of November 1980. The cover art features pencils by John Byrne and inks by Terry Austin, with their signatures visible in the lower-left portion of the central graphic. This issue is a significant key in the X-Men series, featuring the first appearance of Wolverine’s brown and tan costume, Kitty Pryde officially joining the X-Men, and the first use of her codename Sprite. The story also includes appearances by Alpha Flight members and the Wendigo. This is a standard newsstand edition, identified by the UPC barcode in the lower-right corner of the front cover. The back cover features a full-page color advertisement for the LEGO Expert Builder Series, dated 1980.
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