MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL  (the numbered series; Marvel Comics Pub; 1982-1990);

#17- Revenge of the Living Monolith

(FIRST Printing with $6.95 Original Cover Price (in USA); Printed in New York, NY, USA;

** Contains introduction dated April/1985, but GCD / Grand Comics Database dates this as June/1985; First Printing = Same month as X-Factor #5, Pre-Dates X-Factor #6;

** FIRST appearance of En Sabah Nur aka APOCALYPSE behind the Scenes;

** APOCALYSE first appeared in X-Factor #5 (6/1986), but MARVEL retroactively said he was present during this previously published story. The unnamed benefactor of the Living Monolith in Marvel Graphic Novel #17 was later identified as Apocalypse in disguise.

** APOCALYSE: First Appearance Marvel Graphic Novel #17; with (fully identified) as X-Factor #5 (1986)

** Wikipedia; The unnamed benefactor of the Living Monolith in Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (1985) was later identified as APOCALYPSE in disguise.

** Classic X-Men #25 also revealed that years earlier APOCALYSE encountered the terrorist Moses Magnum and granted him superhuman power.

Magazine Weight = 260 Grams;

** Ahmet Abdol the Living Pharaoh becomes the Living Monolith (First appeared on X-Men #54 from 3/1969);

** First appearance of Ahmet Abdol as the Living Planet;

** This Graphic Novel is also NOTORIOUS for its Frightening foreshadowing of the destruction of the WTC World Trade Center Twin Towers at the hands of an Egyptian Middle Eastern Man.  (Ahmet Abdol is the Egyptian Living Pharaoh aka the Living Monolith;

** Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta was an Egyptian ringleader of the September 11 attacks as the Hijacker and PILOT of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks);

** The Cover of this Graphic Novel Depicts the Living Monolith smashing and Toppling the first of the TWIN TOWERS (about 1/3 of the way from the Top – Approx. the same Location the first Plane Hit the Tower), Cover also Depicts a De-Railed Train, and People Running for their Lives;   

** AVENGERS with Starfox, Fantastic Four with She-Hulk, Spider-Man;

** Original X-Men flashback;

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*** X-MEN: APOCALYPSE the Big Screen FILM/MOVIE Debuted on May 27, 2016 (the Ninth Film in the X-Men film franchise);

*** 20th Century Fox’s The X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Film, Directed by Bryan Singer starred; Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique, Evan Peters as  Quicksilver, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Channing Tatum as Gambit, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Ben Hardy as Angel / Archangel, Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Alexendra Shipp and  Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young Nightcrawler and  Nicholas Hoult as Beast; Oscar Isaac will play En Sabah Nur aka APOCALYPSE; Olivia Munn will play Betsy Braddock aka PSYLOCKE.

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** VERY FINE Plus, 8.5

 

 

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