"Do or Die, Baby!" (20 pages)

writer:	Roy Thomas
plot suggestion:	Chris Claremont (uncredited; see below)
artist:	Neal Adams
embellisher:	Tom Palmer
letterer:	Sam Rosen
colorist:	? (uncredited)
editor:	Stan Lee

Comments
• Regarding Chris Claremont's uncredited plot suggestion:
". . .Roy [Thomas] was wrapping up the Sentinels story, and we were talking in the ofice one day, just in general terms. He was looking for a rationale to get rid of the Sentinels. As I recall he didn't think the X-Men could defeat them. There were too many of them and they were too powerful. What he wanted Scott to do was to outwit them, or to use their own logic against them. He wanted him to find some key that could be utilized to that end. With my typically dilettantish and probably inaccurate view of science and generic theories, it seemed to so as I understood it, all primary mutation was the result of solar radiation. Just the gradual seepage of it through the Van Allen belts. The only way to stop unwanted mutation was to destroy the sun. The Sentinels would be arrogant enough to try and stupid enough not to realize that it would cook their goose. They evidently had no self-survival program. "Let's go to the sun!" Zoop! It seemed like a good idea to Roy so he incorporated it into the story. . . ." (From an interview with Chris Claremont in The X-Men Companion I, edited by Peter Sanderson, Fantagraphic Books, March 1982, p. 90.)

Reprints
• Giant-Size X-Men 2 (Marvel, 1975) (missing a few pages)
• X-Men Classics 1-2 (Marvel, December 1983 and January 1984)
• Greatest Battles of the X-Men trade paperback (Marvel, 1994)
• The Very Best of the X-Men limited edition hardcover (Marvel, 1994)
• X-Men Visionaries: Neal Adams trade paperback (Marvel, 1996)

Reprints and Translations in Other Countries
• Italy: Cap (I) 63 (Italia Marvel, 10/9/1975)
• Spain: La Patrulla-X (vol. 1) 27 (Ediciones Vértice, [date?])