Comics:X-Men Vol 1 19

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This is kid stuff, Cyke!

-- Angel

Appearing in "Lo! Now Shall Appear -- The Mimic!"

Featured Characters:

• X-Men

• Cyclops (Scott "Cyke" Summers)
• Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)
• Angel (Warren Worthington III)
• Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy)
• Iceman (Robert "Bobby" Drake)

• Professor X

Supporting Characters:

• Vera Cantor (First appearance)
• Zelda

Villains:

• Mimic (First appearance), (Appears in flashback and main story)

Other Characters:

• Dr. Ronald Rankin - (Appearance in flashback only)
• Unnamed construction workers
• Blackie - Calvin Rankin's classmate - (Appearance in flashback only)
• Unnamed baseball players - (Appearance in flashback only)
• Unnamed students - (Appearance in flashback only)

Locations:

• New York

• Westchester County

• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

• Danger Room

• New York City

• New York City Public Library

• Calvin Rankin's mine hideout - (Appears in flashback and main story)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, version 1

Vehicles:

• X-Copter
  
  
  

Synopsis for "Lo! Now Shall Appear -- The Mimic!"

The X-Men are sent on a vacation by the professor for their hard work against the Sentinels and Magneto in the past few months. Bobby and Hank double date Zelda and her friend Vera Cantor, but they are confronted with a person named Calvin Rankin. He has the power to mimic people’s powers and skills. He learns about the secret identities of the X-Men. He later runs into Marvel Girl and by following her learns where the X-Men live. He pretends to want to join the team, but then fights them and kidnaps Jean to lure the team to an abandoned mine. There he intends to use their powers to recover a buried machine that was created by the Mimic's father and will make his abilities permanent, since the power currently only lasts for the duration when his target is near him. The X-Men manage to free Jean but are to late to stop the Mimic from operating his father's machine. Strange enough the machine didn't make his powers permanent, but instead it removes them entirely, as was the true intention of his father, who suspected that the abilities Calvin originally gained by a chemical accident would only cause him trouble.

Notes

• Werner Roth helped pencil this issue under the pseudonym Jay Gavin.
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

Trivia

• When the X-Men reach the Mimic's hideout, they probably first realize how Cyclops feels about Marvel Girl.
• This issue reveals Iceman's formal name "Robert Drake".
• The Mimic is the first villain to learn the true identity of any of the X-Men.
• This is Jack Kirby's last issue penciling X-Men.
• This is Stan Lee's last issue writing X-Men.

See Also

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Recommended Reading

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Links and References

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