Werner Roth wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t anyone’s favorite either. He did a really good job with Banshee, though, who first appeared in issue #28 as a villain (but by the end of the issue he was a hero)
That look, above, where he almost is a ghost, was abandoned later–but I really like it.
This is kind of a well-known panel…
…for being terrible. Anyway, the issue starts with Jean at college…
…if they’re trying to create a set of side characters around her, Ted is not the way to go.
Then it’s back to the mansion where…
…She doesn’t appear to know what a pliers is. Or, alternatively, Beast really needs a screwdriver and he doesn’t know what a pliers is. That seems more likely, since he thanks her when she gives him a tool he didn’t ask for.
Banshee also has a partner named Ogre.
He later puts Banshee in a clear container.
Don’t worry, Ogre doesn’t matter. Or at least, he won’t matter for 30 years until he joins the Thunderbolts(!). For now, he’s part of Factor 3–a set of villains that doesn’t matter now and never will matter.
Despite the fact that these issues were very poor quality, an early fan was future artist Carlos Pacheco. Cool!
Are we sure that letter is from THE Carlos Pacheco? He would’ve only been four years old when X-Men 22 came out and he was born in Spain, though I suppose he could’ve moved to the Bronx by then. I did find an obit of a guy by the same name from the Bronx who was born in 1950, making him 12 when #22 came out. It’s more likely that it was this guy writing in.
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ny/bronx/carlos-pacheco-11150473
Hmmmm….You’re probably right. I stand corrected. Thanks!