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Black King
147 appearances · Bronze Age · 1980–2025 · 8 key issues
Teams & affiliations
Hellfire ClubX-MenMorlocks
The X-Men
#129
#129
★ First appearance
The X-Men #129
Trivia
- 🗓️ Black King first appeared in The X-Men #129 in 1980 — that's 46 years ago. It's a recognized key issue.
- 🎨 Co-created by John Byrne and Chris Claremont.
- 🏆 Ranks #946 of 59,192 characters in our catalog by number of appearances — one of the most-published characters we track.
- 📚 Appears in 147 issues across 69 different series.
- ⭐ 8 of their appearances are key issues collectors actively chase.
- 📈 Has appeared in comics for 45 years (1980–2025) — a true Bronze Age mainstay.
- 🛡️ Runs with Hellfire Club, X-Men, Morlocks.
Covers through the years — 1981–2022
1981 ★ 1985 
2009 ![A.X.E.: Judgment Day #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/isbndb/9781302947002.jpg)
2022 Appearances
Alpha Flight (1983)
The New Mutants Annual (1984)
Excalibur (1988)
The New Warriors Annual (1991)
X-Men (1991)
Marvel Super-Heroes (1990)
What If...? (1989)
Marvels: Portraits (1995)
Ultimate X-Men (2001)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men 2005 (2005)
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (2006)
New Excalibur (2006)
Women of Marvel (2006)
Avengers / X-Men: Utopia (2009)
X-Necrosha (2010)
X-Men Origins: Emma Frost (2010)
Origins of Marvel Comics: X-Men (2010)
Evolutionary War Omnibus (2011)
Generation Hope (2011)
X-Man: The Man Who Fell to Earth (2012)
Uncanny X-Men (2016)
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman (2020)
New Mutants Omnibus (2020)
X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (2021)
X of Swords (2021)
Captain Marvel vs. Rogue (2021)
Excalibur by Tini Howard (2020)
Hellions (2020)
Marauders Annual (2022)
Sabretooth: The Adversary (2022)
The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (2006)
Wolverine (2020)
X-Men No. 1 Facsimile Edition (2023)
Wolverine by Benjamin Percy (2020)
X-Force by Benjamin Percy (2020)
X-Men: Reign of X by Jonathan Hickman (2024)
X-Men: Forever (2024)
Marvel Holiday Tales to Astonish (2025)