X-Men (vol. 1) #60 (Sep. 1969):
“In the Shadow of... Sauron!”
by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Tom Palmer

X-Men (vol. 1) #60

Title: “In the Shadow of... Sauron!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1969

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

43 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
Lorna Dane	Jewish Catholic	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Starjammers; The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men [studied geophysics in college]		464
Sauron (Karl Lykos)		Brotherhood of Mutants; Savage Land Mutates...  Weapon X		100
Banshee (Sean Cassidy)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
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
NYPD (details)  Beast pilots a plane (captured from the defeated Sentinels) en route to New York City to take Alex Summers to be treated by Dr. Karl Lykos. He evades a police copter en route.		[police department]		1,396
Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters		[high school]		373
Larry Trask	anti-mutant	Federal Council on Mutant Activities [mutant son of anti-mutant Sentinel inventor]		46
pterodactyls (flashback)  Referred to as "pteranodons" in this story, but they do not appear to be true Pteranodons. Strange pterodactyls in ice caverns in Antarctica, encountered by Lykos as child.	N.A.	[animal species]	Mannheim	1
Tanya Anderssen		[Sauron's long-time girlfriend since he was young]		14
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Mr. Tindall		[1st app: X-Men (vol. 1) #59 (Aug. 1969)]		1
Judge Robert Chalmers		Federal Council on Mutant Activities (founder) [federal judge]		9
Dr. Anderssen (flashback)		[father of Sauron's girlfriend]		18
Mr. Lykos (flashback)		[guide; sailor]		1
Jager (flashback)	N.A.	dog		2
Miss Hodges		[nurse]		1
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (cameo)	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) (cameo)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  The Ultimates; X-Factor		944
Vanisher (Telford Porter) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Factor Three...  Fallen Angels; The Enforcers		90
Blob (Fred J. Dukes) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Freedom Force; X-Cell; X-Corps		403
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits...  The 198		310
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Secret Empire		140
Unus the Untouchable (Angelo Unuscione) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three		69
Mesmero (Vincent) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	The Demi-Men; Weapon X [stage hypnotist]		54
Ahmet Abdol (cameo)	Egyptian classical religion: Cult of the Living Monolith (leader)	Children of the Sun (leader); The Twelve		46
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned)  Scott Summers refers his brother Alex to Dr. Lykos to be treated. Lykos is aware his old friend Xavier opened a school for mutants before he died. He correctly deduces Alex is a mutant. [more]	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (mentioned)  The X-Men discuss the mutants captured by Sentinels or present during battle with them. Hank notes the absence of both Magneto and Changeling.	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
Sentinels (mentioned)  This issue begins immediately after the X-Men defeated the Sentinels (in the previous issue). Battle is mentioned. Part of issue takes place in the Sentinels' Adirondack Mountains headquarters.	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
The Devil (Satan) (mentioned)  Karl Lykos considers absorbing life energy from his patient, Alex Summers. His own thoughts shock him. He thinks this is something only the devil would contemplate. Has he become a fiend from a hell?	Devil	[generic Satan/Devil reference or appearance]	, etc.	1,024
Changeling (Kevin Sydney) (mentioned)  The X-Men discuss the mutants captured by Sentinels or present during battle with them. Hank notes the absence of both Magneto and Changeling.		Factor Three; X-Men		23
Warren Worthington Jr. (mentioned)  Jean tells Scott they should go out and have fun, since Warren loaned them the new Maverick (car) his parents gave him.	Episcopalian	The Hellfire Club [father of Angel (Warren Worthingon III)]		14
Bolivar Trask (mentioned)  Judge Chalmers tells Cyclops that Larry Trask vowed vengeance against the X-Men years ago because he believed they killed his father, Bolivar Trask.	anti-mutant	Control [inventor of Sentinels]		5
Pandora (mentioned)  After Sentinels captured mutants, Jean marvels at all the X-Men foes gathered in one place, but wonders where Magneto, Changeling were. Beast calls her "Pandora"; says he doesn't share her curiosity.	Greco-Roman classical religion	[1st app: Pandora #1 (Jan. 1997)]		56
J. R. R. Tolkien (mentioned)  After Dr. Lykos tranforms into monstrous form, he recalls his human self's love of reading J.R.R. Tolkien. He renames himself "Sauron" after one of the main villains from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings."	Catholic	[wrote "Lord of the Rings"]	Sirena Film; PBS	15
Kathryn Worthington (mentioned)  Jean tells Scott they should go out and have fun, since Warren loaned them the new Maverick (car) his parents gave him.	Episcopalian	The Hellfire Club [mother of Angel (founding X-Man)]		14
Sauron (Annatar) (mentioned)  After Dr. Lykos tranforms into monstrous form, he recalls his human self's love of reading J.R.R. Tolkien. He renames himself "Sauron" after one of the main villains from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings."	devil; sorcerer	[creator of the One Ring]	George Allen & Unwin	23
Dr. Ben Casey (mentioned)  After Dr. Karl Lykos asks Scott Summers to leave and come back much later so he can treat Alex Summers in private, Scott tells Dr. Lykos he's been watching too many Ben Casey reruns.		[doctor; surgeon]		164
Judge Crater (Joseph Force Crater) (mentioned)  Hearing reports of a winged thief (Sauron), Angel gets mad. Cyclops says let police handle it. Angel says police aren't paid to blame mutants for every unsolved crime this side of Judge Crater!	Methodist	[went missing; was never found]	Doubleday	10

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