X-Men #57 (June) The Sentinels Live.
Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Tom Palmer.
The Sentinels are up to their old tricks and kidnap Polaris even as we're still dealing with the Living Monolith. The sheer pace of the Neal Adams run is dizzying in comparison to what went before, and I expect the X-Men themselves will be glad of the rest once they get to issue #67.
The Female of the Species.
Linda Fite, Werner Roth, Sam Grainger.
Having already been seen joining the X-Men back in the first issue, Marvel Girl uses the obligatory origin pages to explain her powers, showing how she bakes a delicious apple pie for the boys or handles the housework using telekinesis; and this is written by a woman because, as Stan explains on the first page, it seemed appropriate to give one of the ladies a go seeing as how Marvel Girl is a girl and all, as the name implies. Germaine Greer's seminal feminist text The Female Eunuch was published a year later, which I'd hardly call a coincidence. Thankfully this was the last of these back-up features.
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