Casey's Maximum Mutants
Uncanny X-Men 281

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Uncanny X-Men #281 Universal
Grade: 9.9
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0629294009
Owner: kc120us

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Casey's Maximum Mutants
Date Added: 2/28/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

“Fresh Upstart” 1st appearance of Trevor Fitzroy. Shinobi Shaw and Trevor Fitzroy belong to a new group called Upstarts. They are in competition against each other and get points for killing certain people. Currently their targets are present and former members of the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle. Shinobi is in the lead for having killed his father, but Fitzroy plans to get ahead by sending his own breed of Sentinels to Australia where they slaughter most of the Reavers to get to Donald Pierce. Only Deathstrike and Cylla are clever enough to realize that as long as they don’t get in the way, they won’t get attacked. Pierce tells Gateway to take him to the person responsible and enters the teleportation portal with some Sentinels following him. Meanwhile the X-Men Gold team are attending a Hellfire Club party, meeting with the Hellions and the White Queen Emma Frost. She contacted them for help as somebody has tried to kill her several times. Fitzroy appears, intending to finish what his operatives could not, but he gets defeated by the X-Men. Right then Gateway’s portal opens and Pierce arrives with the Sentinels in pursuit. The robots kill both Emma Frost and Donald Pierce, and on Fitzroy’s command then battle the Hellions and the X-Men. The young mutants panic and end up captured or killed one by one. The X-Men ensure that the civilians are out of harms’ way and manage to destroy one of the Sentinels, however Jean gets outnumbered by the other two and realizes that she has only one slight chance of surviving. Yet she gets blasted by the robots and is apparently dead. Fitzoy and his robots leave. <br /><br />The reason for Fitzroy’s hatred for the Emma Frost has yet to be explained. The Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club was responsible for bringing the Dark Phoenix creature up, as seen in issues #132-135. For the sake of the universe, Phoenix committed suicide on the moon in Uncanny X-Men #137. Jean had to integrate the memories of Phoenix and Madelyne during Inferno. Shinobi apparently killed Sebastian Shaw in X-Factor #67. The Super Skrull is one of the many enemies of the Fantastic Four, he has duplicated the Fantastic Four’s powers by artificial means. Empath’s presence is an error, and he is not shown the next issue. Actually he is currently in Nove Roma with Magma. Though it would fit his personality to run away during the fight after Emma Frost’s death, he acts as he was not at the battle at all when Cannonball, Warpath and Firestar pay him and Magma a visit to inform them about their teammates‘ fate in New Warriors (1st series) #31. <br /><br />This copy is my only mint comic in this set. I picked it up from Mutantkeys.
  
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