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X-Men 129
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Men 129 Modern
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0767728019
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
January 1980
"God Spare the Child ..."
Chris Claremont and John Byrne - Co-Plotters
Chris Claremont - Scripter
John Byrne - Penciler
Terry Austin - Inker
Bob Sharen - Colorist
Tom Orzechowski - Letterer
Roger Stern - Editor
Jim Shooter - Editor in Chief
Synopsis:
The X-Men return from Scotland without the powerless Banshee (who stays behind with Moira MacTaggert), only to find that Professor Xavier has returned home from the Shi’Ar Empire. Jason Wyngarde causes another "timeslip" for Phoenix, and the Hellfire Club learns through a bug planted within the mansion, that Cerebro has located two new mutants. The White Queen is sent to Chicago to retrieve Kitty Pryde before the X-Men can do so. She offers the Prydes to have Kitty join her Massachusetts Academy, but Xavier too offers scholarship at his School for gifted Youngsters. Ororo, Logan and Piotr take Kitty to a malt shop, where they are attacked and defeated by Hellfire troops. Only Kitty can escape by instinctively using her power to phase through solid objects. Secretly she enters the Hellfire Club’s hovercraft without knowing how to help her new friends.
Notes:
- Phoenix’s previous timeslips occurred in issues #125 & 126.
- The other X-Men believed Phoenix and Beast were killed in issue #113.
- The historical Hellfire Club, which had several incarnations, originally was an English 18th century club of upper-class libertines, run by Sir Francis Dashwood. They held notorious meetings at Medmenham Abbey, beside the Thames. The Hellfire Club in the X-Men was heavily inspired by the Hellfire Club presented in the British TV show "The Avengers", specifically the episode "A Touch of Brimstone". Fittingly, the main villain in that episode was played by an actor named Peter Wyngarde (best known for his role as Jason King) who is a dead ringer for Jason Wyngarde.
- Off panel in Uncanny X-Men #110, Warhawk planted a bug within the mansion that the Hellfire Club now uses to spy on the X-Men.
- The back-up story of Classic X-Men #35 takes place during this issue.
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