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El Tigre app.; Werner Roth cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 6 (CBI)
The X-Men travel to Central America in this issue to do battle with the Mayan god Kukulcán, once known as El Tigre. The team confront the mad god/man and try to cut him off from the sun, the source of his power. After a lengthy battle they succeed in rendering their foe mortal once again and take him captive. During the skirmish, Cyclops inadvertently injures Angel, who accuses the team's leader of harming him on purpose, as they are both in love with Jean Grey. This long-running plot thread provides a compelling emotional facet to the X-Men's adventures, as readers wondered if Scott's feelings towards Marvel Girl would ever be reciprocated. Werner Roth and Dick Ayers provide the impressive art for this issue.


Artists Information

Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.

Werner Roth is an American comic book artist who's worked with Marvel's predecessor Atlas during the golden age of comics. Werner was also notably the artist who took over the X-men series after Jack Kirby left. Roth's other famous works include Lorna, the Jungle Girl and Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.