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| Cover by Jack Kirby |
Cover Date: January 1965
On-Sale Date: November 1964
Synopsis: While Professor X confronts the alien Lucifer, the X-Men must stop the Avengers from interfering.
CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES
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| Page 3, panel 4 |
Professor X is said to have contacted Cyclops "last week", which leaves things fairly vague. By my thinking that could be anywhere from a few days ago to about ten days ago.
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| Page 4, panels 1 to 3 |
After two issues of searching, Professor X has located the lair of Lucifer. We learn here that Lucifer was responsible for crushing Xavier's legs years ago. Previously he'd told the X-Men that this had happened in a childhood accident, but that lie never comes up again. On the scale of lies told by Xavier to the X-Men, it's fairly innocuous.
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| Page 11, panel 3 |
This is the first meeting between the X-Men and most of the Avengers. Iron Man fought then befriended Angel in Tales of Suspense (1959) #49, and briefly met the rest of the X-Men in Avengers (1963) #3. Thor almost had a run-in with the team in Journey Into Mystery (1952) #109. For the others - Giant-Man, Wasp and Captain America - this is a genuine first meeting.
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| Page 12, panel 2 |
This isn't chronologically relevant, but I just wanted to point out that Angel is absolutely not worthy enough to lift Thor's hammer.
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| Page 15, panel 5 |
Thor sort of meets Professor X for the first time here, via telepathic conversation. None of the other Avengers are made aware of Xavier's presence in this story.
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| Page 20, panel 5 |
Part of Lucifer's plan in this story involves a powerful bomb that will go off if his heartbeat is stopped. This bomb was specifically designed as a defense against Professor X. Given that it took Lucifer ten years to design and build, that gives us a pretty good indication of when their first confrontation took place.
COUNTING THE DAYS
The entirety of this story takes place in a single day (although there's probably a week or so beforehand between Xavier contacting Cyclops and the X-Men arriving by ship in Europe).
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