X-Men (vol. 1) #59 (Aug. 1969):
“Do or Die, Baby!”
by Chris Claremont, Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Tom Palmer

X-Men (vol. 1) #59

Title: “Do or Die, Baby!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1969

Publisher:
Written by: Chris Claremont, Roy Thomas
Art by: Neal Adams, Tom Palmer

Number of Pages: 20

35 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Banshee (Sean Cassidy)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  The Ultimates; X-Factor		944
Havok (Alex Summers)	Catholic (lapsed)	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Dark Descendants; Magistrates; Old Landon College; Starjammers; X-Factor; X-Men [Cyclops' brother]		592
Sentinels	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
Lorna Dane	Jewish Catholic	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Starjammers; The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men [studied geophysics in college]		464
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits...  The 198		310
Ahmet Abdol	Egyptian classical religion: Cult of the Living Monolith (leader)	Children of the Sun (leader); The Twelve		46
the sun (details)  Cyclops convinces the Sentinels that all humans are mutants, and the Sentinels should eliminate the source of mutation: the sun. The Sentinels leave Earth on doomed mission to destroy the Sun.	sentient star	[living embodiment of earth's sun]		4
Larry Trask	anti-mutant	Federal Council on Mutant Activities [mutant son of anti-mutant Sentinel inventor]		46
Cerebro	N.A.	[Xavier's mutant-finding machine, given sentience by Bastion]		9
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Judge Robert Chalmers		Federal Council on Mutant Activities (founder) [federal judge]		9
Sentinels Mk II	anti-mutant robots	Sentinels		9
Number Two	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II (leader); Sentinels		16
A3	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
Number 3	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
Number 5	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
C6	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
R7	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
Z2	anti-mutant robot	Sentinels Mk II; Sentinels		1
Karl Lykos (cameo)		Brotherhood of Mutants; Savage Land Mutates...  Weapon X		100
Mr. Tindall (cameo)		[1st app: X-Men (vol. 1) #59 (Aug. 1969)]		1
Blob (Fred J. Dukes) (photo/picture/video)  On TV monitor, seen being captured by Sentinels.	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Freedom Force; X-Cell; X-Corps		403
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) (photo/picture/video)  On TV monitor, seen being captured by Sentinels.	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Secret Empire		140
Unus the Untouchable (Angelo Unuscione) (photo/picture/video)  On TV monitor, seen being captured by Sentinels.	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three		69
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (behind the scenes)  Appearing in this story are Toad, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Blob, Unus and Mastermind, all former Brotherhood of Evil Mutants members, although they are not functioning as the Brotherood here.	mutant supremacist	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #4 (Mar. 1964)]		644
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned)  Recognizing that his brother Alex will need medical and psychiatric help after his recent traumatic experiences, Cyclops calls one of Professor Xavier's old colleagues: Karl Lykos.	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Bolivar Trask (mentioned)  Judge Chalmers reveals to Larry Trask that he knew Larry was a mutant. Larry's father Bolivar gave him a medallion to mask his mutant status after his mutant power foretold his mother's death. [more]	anti-mutant	Control [inventor of Sentinels]		5
Amelia Trask (mentioned)  Judge Chalmers reveals to Larry Trask that he knew Larry was a mutant. Larry's father Bolivar gave him a medallion to mask his mutant status after his mutant power foretold his mother's death. [more]	anti-mutant	The Consortium (leader) [Bolivar Trask's widow; Ziggy Trask's mother]		7

This publication is also known as: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #59.

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