| Release: | Mar 1973 |
| Cover: | Mar 1973 |
Birth of the Beast
| Release: | Mar 1973 |
| Cover: | Mar 1973 |
The original two page intro is followed by reprints of the "Origin of the Beast" backup stories from X-Men #49-53.
| Writer | Arnold Drake, Steve Englehart |
| Cover Penciller | Jim Starlin |
| Cover Inker | Frank Giacoia |
| Penciller | Jim Starlin, Werner Roth |
| Inker | John Verpoorten, Mike Esposito, John Tartaglione |
| Letterer | Denise Vladimer, Sam Rosen, Herb Cooper, Irv Watanabe, Jean Simek-Izzo |
| Editor | Roy Thomas, Stan Lee |
| Beast | Henry 'Hank' McCoy |
| Cyclops | Scott Summers |
| Iceman | Robert 'Bobby' Drake |
| Professor X | Charles Francis Xavier |
| Angel | Warren Worthington III |
| Magneto | Max / Erik Magnus Eisenhardt / Lehnsherr |
| Marvel Girl | Jean Grey |
| Norton McCoy | |
| Chico | |
| Edna Andrews-McCoy | |
| Conquistador | Orlando Furio |
| Age | Bronze Age |
|---|---|
| Format | Comic |
| Series Group | X-Men |
| Genre | Action | Adventure | Super-Heroes |
| No. of Pages | 32 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |