#12,515: X-Men (1963) #14
"Among Us Stalk... the Sentinels"
Title: X-Men (v1)
Editor-in-Chief:
Stan Lee
Editor:
Stan Lee
Writer:
Stan Lee
Inker:
Vincent Colletta
Letterer:
Sam Rosen
Cover Date: November 1965
Release Date: September 1965
Pages: 20
Cover Price: $0.12
Times Read: 2,508
Times Rated: 1,254
Plot Flags:
Universe:
Earth-616
Issue Blurb
Dr Bolivar Trask has taken to the media to spread his message: that mutants are the enemy of humanity. As the mutant hate starts to spread, Professor Xavier takes to a live televised debate to try to dissuade this unfounded prejudice. However, Professor X never counted on Trask's anti-mutant army, and perhaps the X-Men's greatest foes to date, the Sentinels!
Issue Notes
Why Essential NotesIn this issue Dr. Trask, the Sentinel program, and the Mk I Sentinel is introduced.
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MickTheNerd
Feb 8, 2026
WITNESS TRUE BELIEVERS-the first appearance of the both the deadliest AND silliest looking enemies to the X-men and all mutants-THE SENTINELS-made by BOLLIVAR TRASK...who failed to make them loyal to him, because apparently his field of science was anthropology NOT robotics...that is confusing-BUT-still a great comic for the time as well as part one! 5/5
callmehalalfood
Jan 7, 2026
The X-Men #14 is a pivotal issue, not because it overwhelms with action, but because it quietly reshapes what the series is about. After the relentless Juggernaut two parter, this chapter deliberately slows down, devoting its first half almost entirely to character moments: the team off duty,...
RikerDonegal
Nov 16, 2017
Good balance here between action and character development.
Nice contrast with previous issue. No action until second half.
Early scenes are devoted to the regular characters. And we get to see them off-duty and having fun. Or, in Scott’s case, just moping about and being lonely.
Meanwhile, a...
specialque
Jul 30, 2014
This was a good issue, and I feel like these three issues more than anything else are laying the groundwork to further explain the kind of world that the mutants live in. I like the Sentinels and think they're great villains for the X-Men given how they're numerous, hard to take down, single minded...
bastos
Mar 19, 2014
Trask, you fool! So begins an excellent trek in the chapters of X-Men comics. The Sentinels - are the re-birth of World War II paranoia. And an attack on muties begins! Of course it wasn't perfected until much later, but...
Trask immediately loses control of his invention - on national...
