The X-Men #135 for Sale - First Appearance of Lord Juber - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #135
Publication date: July 1980
Key date: 1980-07-00
On-sale date: 1980-03
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Lord Juber - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Defeated by Dark Phoenix!	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Jim Novak	Colossus, Cyclops, Dark Phoenix, Jean Grey, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Piotr Rasputin, Storm, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner, Wolverine
2	Dark Phoenix	comic story	17	script: John Byrne, Chris Claremont; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin; colors: Bob Sharen; letters: Tom Orzechowski	Angel, Araki, Banshee, Beast, Black Bishop, Black King, Sean Cassidy, Colossus, Peter Corbeau, Cyclops, Dark Phoenix, Doctor Strange, Jean Grey, Ben Grimm
5	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
9	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Bill Mantlo; pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Sal Buscema
10	$5 Savings Certificate for New Subscribers Only!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: ?; typeset
11	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
15	-	in-house column	0.9	script: Stan Lee	Machine Man; Man-Thing
16	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.1	letters: typeset
18	-	letters page	1	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: John Byrne	Wolverine [Logan]

Plus 12 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860246107
British	price 0.15 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Classic X-Men #41	1989	On eBay ›
The Dark Phoenix Saga: The Uncanny X-Men #2 ISBN 0-939766-96-5	1984	On eBay ›
Essential X-Men #2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1	1997	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #7	1988	On eBay ›
The Uncanny X-Men #[nn] ISBN 0-939766-96-5	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #5 ISBN 0-7851-1698-2	2005	On eBay ›
Wizard X-Men Masterpiece Edition #1	2003	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #134135 of 141#136 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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