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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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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3797010012
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Owner:
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labratnotincluded
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Uncanny X-Men (1963) 129
God Spare the Child...
Cover Price: US $0.40
Writer(s): Chris Claremont
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Terry Austin
Colorist(s): Bob Sharen
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski - 'Tom Orz'
Editor(s): Jim Shooter, Roger Stern
Cover Artist(s): John Byrne, Terry Austin, John Costanza
Synopsis:
The X-Men bid their friends farewell as they prepare to depart Muir Island. Banshee chooses to stay behind. Having lost his sonic scream ability, he feels his usefulness to the team is limited whereas Moira needs his support while she recovers from her recent traumas.
Cyclops extends offers to Madrox, Havok and Polaris to join the X-Men as Banshee’s replacement. Each of them respectfully decline and so the X-Men leave. Phoenix leaves with them, however, having finally rejoined the team.
As the Blackbird cruises over the Atlantic, another private jet owned by the Hellfire Club transports Jason Wyngarde to the States as well. He once again causes Jean to experience hallucinations of being an 18th century noblewoman who in love with his own ancestor. This time, he creates an illusion that they are crossing the ocean on a ship together. Jean had previously assumed her visions were some manifestation of Proteus’s reality-warping ability, but now thinks to herself that her Phoenix abilities may be causing her to experience actual timeslips, perhaps experiencing the life of an ancestor of hers.
Scott’s approach snaps her out of this supposed timeslip and the two discuss their relationship. Jean lets him know that she’s gotten glimpses of Colleen Wing from the other X-Men’s thoughts. Scott assures her that his brief “romance"" with Colleen Wing only happened because he thought Jean was dead and that Colleen is a friend, nothing more. The two confess their love for each other and share a kiss.
As the Blackbird approaches the X-Mansion, the team is alerted that the security perimeter has been breached. Storming into the school, the X-Men are surprised to find that their mentor, Charles Xavier, has returned to Earth.
Over the next few days, Scott and Jean spend a lot of time catching up. Jean ponders to herself how she “overheard” the Professor’s thoughts and knows that he returned due to concern for her new powers. The couple are approaching the Danger Room when Wolverine suddenly storms out of it. Scott realizes that Professor X (who has had very little time actively leading the new team) is using the same heavy-handed methods he used to mentor the original team. Scott advises him that the new team is not a group of teenagers and that he’s learned that he must use a different approach with them. Xavier dismisses this advice, suggesting that Cyclops’s own confessed inability to discipline the team was a failure of leadership.
Before their argument can continue, Cerebro alerts them to the existence of two new mutants whose powers have manifested, one in Chicago and the other in New York. The Professor mobilizes the X-Men to investigate the two new mutants: he will lead half the team to Chicago while Scott takes the other half to New York. The team is unaware that they are being spied on by the inner circle of the Hellfire Club, which includes Jason Wyngarde. The shadowy members of the Hellfire Club want to acquire these mutants before the X-Men do. The Club’s White Queen is dispatched to deal with the one in Chicago, while Jason Wyngarde is sent to deal with the one in New York.
In the suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, thirteen-and-a-half year old Katherine ""Kitty"" Pryde returns home from ballet practice to find her parents meeting with Ms. Emma Frost (the White Queen in her civilian guise), who is headmistress of the exclusive Massachusetts Academy. Kitty instinctively dislikes Ms. Frost and realizes that the fact that her parents are discussing sending her to a private school means that her parents intend to split up. She lays down on her bed in her upstairs bedroom to rest as a migraine hits her. After enduring the pain for a few moments, she opens her eyes to find herself on the floor of the living room! Baffled, she rushes back up to her room just as her parents see Ms. Frost out and welcome their next visitors: Charles Xavier, accompanied by Ororo, Peter and Logan. Like Ms. Frost, Xavier is seeking Kitty as a student at his own school. Kitty spies on Xavier and his students and decides they are much more interesting. In particular, she thinks that Peter is “cute!”
While Charles talks with Kitty’s parents, the rest of the team take her down to a local malt shop to get acquainted. Kitty strikes up an instant friendship with Ororo, who confides to her that they are the X-Men, much to Kitty's surprise. Meanwhile, Logan and a flustered Peter check out a few girly mags in the store’s racks. Just then, three armored mercenaries barrel through the storefront window and attack the three X-Men. Each of the X-Men’s attackers has find that they has armor specially equipped to neutralize their abilities. As the fight erupts, Kitty cringes in fear and is extremely surprised when she passes right through the outside wall, landing in the alleyway behind the shop. Before she can fully comprehend what happened, she passes out.
Storm hasn’t noticed exactly how Kitty departed but is relieved to see that she’s gone. Meanwhile, the X-Men realize that they can defeat their enemies if they switch opponents; they then easily trounce their attackers. Their victory is brief, though, as they are then struck down by a powerful psionic bolt from the White Queen. She orders more minions to take the X-Men prisoner. As they all speed away, the Queen detonates explosives laced within her defeated minions’ armor, killing them as the penalty for their failure.
The Hellfire Club’s vehicle speeds away while the White Queen orders the X-Men to be stripped out of their uniforms. When asked what she intends to do about Kitty, she dismisses her, convinced that she can get her any time she wants. Unbeknownst to them, Kitty has used her newfound phasing ability to sneak aboard the hovercraft. She wonders how she can possibly save her new friends all by herself.
This story is continued next issue.
Featured Characters:
X-Men
Cyclops (Scott Summers)
Phoenix (Jean Grey)
Storm (Ororo Munroe)
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
Wolverine (Logan)
Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Rejoins team)
Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (Leaves team)
Supporting Characters:
Kitty Pryde (First appearance)
Dr. Moira MacTaggart
Havok (Alex Summers)
Polaris (Lorna Dane)
Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)
Carmen Pryde (First appearance)
Terri Pryde (First appearance)
Antagonists:
Hellfire Club (First appearance as Hellfire Club)
Hellfire Knights (First appearance)
Cutler (First appearance)
White Queen (Emma Frost) (First appearance)
Black King (Sebastian Shaw) (Shadow only) (First appearance)
Harry Leland (Shadow only) (First appearance)
Donald Pierce (Shadow only) (First appearance)
Jason Wyngarde
Massachusetts Academy (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert) (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Joseph MacTaggert (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Lady Jean Grey (Vision)
Colleen Wing (Mentioned)
Christopher Summers (Mentioned)
Katherine Summers (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Baryshnikov (Poster)
Leif Garrett (Named only)
Kiss (Named only)
Unnamed malt shop owner and patrons
Races and Species:
Humans
Mutants
Abstract Entities
Locations:
Earth
Europe
United Kingdom
Scotland
Muir Island
North America
United States of America
New York
New York City
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Lenox Hill
66th Street and Fifth Avenue
Hellfire Club Mansion (First appearance)
Westchester County
North Salem
Salem Center
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Danger Room
Illinois
Deerfield
Central Avenue (First appearance)
Family Pryde's Home
Items:
X-Uniforms
Wolverine's Suit
Cyclops' Visor, ver. 2
Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses
Adamantium (On Wolverine's claws)
Hellfire Knights power armor
Cerebro
Vehicles:
SR-71 Blackbird
Hellfire Hovercraft
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