X-Men Annual #3 (1979) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Awesome Attack of Arkon!	cover	1	pencils: Frank Miller; inks: Terry Austin; letters: Danny Crespi	Arkon, Colossus, Cyclops, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Piotr Rasputin, Storm, Scott Summers, Wolverine
1	A Fire in the Sky!	comic story	35	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: George Pérez; inks: Terry Austin, John Byrne; colors: G. Wein; letters: Tom Orz	Arkon, Banshee, Captain America, Sean Cassidy, Colossus, Cyclops, Grand Vizier Greybeard, Iron Man, Logan, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Piotr Rasputin, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Collection	Year
Essential X-Men #3 ISBN 0785106618	1998	On eBay ›
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #6	1988	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #4 ISBN 0-7851-1630-3	2004	On eBay ›
The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-2101-3	2006	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #4 ISBN 978-0-7851-5869-1	2012	On eBay ›

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