My Grail Art (NFS): X-Men #64 1st Sunfire!

Roy Thomas, Alter Ego #99 : "Very soon after I started scripting X-Men the first time around in 1967, working with penciler Werner Roth, I had told Stan I wanted to add a sixth X-Man- a Japanese whose mother had been radiated by the Hiroshima nuclear blast in 1945 and thus had been born a mutant. (since at that time it was canonical that the X-Men's parents had all been involved in the Manhattan Project that created the A-Bomb, this seemed to me like a natural. Whether or not I had the name Sunfire in mind in '67, I don't recall, but in any event Stan definitely nixed the idea, giving several reasons. I disagreed with all of them, but hey, he's The Man. But, as per usual with me, I simply bided my time-and in X-MEN #64, I finally introduced Sunfire. I didn't try to make him an X-Man right away, however-at that point I wasn't thinking long term enough to be certain I wanted to bring him into the group any longer-but I did want such a character in the series as a hero-villain, DON HECK did a sterling job on the penciling, and TOM PALMER masterfully did his damnedest to make the art look as much like an Adams/Palmer job as possible."