COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Men Annual 2 Universal
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Grade:
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8.0
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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3704561009
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Owner:
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Colossus Keck
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Combo of 2 issues - X-Men 22 & 23
Story Title:
Divided We Fall
Staff:
Roy Thomas (writer), Jay Gavin (penciler), Dick Ayers (inker), Artie Simek (letters), Stan Lee (editor)
Brief Description of Issue 22
Professor Xavier has designed a new training program for the X-Men. As they have recently faced several robotic menaces, he designed a huge robot called Colosso. He effectively blocks and countermeasures what the young mutants throw at him, until finally Cyclops again proves himself as a good leader and figures out Colosso’s weakness. Xavier is proud of his team’s performance and grants them a two week vacation. Hank and Bobby go to see their girlfriends, while Jean plans to visit her sister an Albany. Before she leaves, Warren invites her to dinner, and Jean asks Scott to come along as she wishes to be with him instead of Warren. Secretly Scott loves her, but does not dare to admit it. After the trio parts ways, mysterious X-Men sightings are reported in vicinity of Central Park. Curious, the five mutants check it out individually and, indeed, there are some holographic illusions looking like them. All five teenagers fall prey to a bunch of super-villains, by the names of Plantman, Unicorn, Eel, Porcupine and Scarecrow, working together with the Maggia. The X-Men are tied up and shackled and brought aboard a freighter that takes them to a hidden fortress of Count Nefaria, the mastermind behind it all. He reorganized the Maggia and brought in the five villains as his lieutenants. Nefaria is aware that each of them would like to take over his position, but as they mistrust each other too much, the won’t dare to unite against him. Locked away in a prison, the X-Men wonder what Nefaria has in store for them as it seems very important that they are all unharmed and well.
Story Title:
To Save A City
Staff:
Roy Thomas (writer), Werner Roth (penciler), Dick Ayers (inker), Artie Simek (letters), Stan Lee (editor)
Brief Description of Issue 23
The X-Men have been captured by Count Nefaria and the five super-villains that have joined his re-organized Maggia. Nefaria gives the team one hour to decide to join them, although whether they agree or not, it’s they who will be blamed for Nefaria’s big plan. Indeed, Nefaria has a machine that can create solid illusionary images from afar, as well as trap the entire city of Washington under an impenetrable crystalline dome. The fake X-Men are sent to the Capitol, where they demand a ransom of 100 million dollars, which one of them will pick up in three hours. The military calls in Professor Xavier as civilian adviser for mutant conditions and he secretly establishes contact with his students, right as they manage to break out of their prison cell in Nefaria’s fortress. Xavier tells them to go along with the Count’s plans, while he mentally studies his machines. Nefaria is surprised that the X-Men take up his offer and sends them to get the briefcase with the ransom. Not fully trusting them, he sends the quintet of Plantman, Porcupine, Scarecrow, Eel and Unicorn after them. However, it’s they whom he should be suspicious of, as the five villains decided to betray him and take the money for themselves. The X-Men pick up the briefcase, but a crowd of angry civilians gets into a fight with them. The X-Men are thrown at with bricks and they don’t dare to fight back, fearing to hurt the innocent people. The villains come to help, but the Unicorn betrays his allies and attempts to get away with the money by himself. The military enters the fighting and shoots the Unicorn out of the sky. Xavier sees that there is nothing more he can do, so he retreats to a hotel. Among the confusion of a three-way battle between X-Men, villains and army, Cyclops hands the briefcase to Jean and tells her to get it to Nefaria on her own. She does as told and, not much later, the fight ends with the villains escaping and the X-Men heading back to Nefaria’s fortress after Jean. The Count followed all these events on a big tele-screen and eagerly anticipates Marvel Girl’s arrival. Before handing him the bag, she demands that he releases Washington from the dome, right as a mysterious stranger enters Nefaria’s command center. He easily works on the Count’s machine and, not only makes the force dome disappear, but also renders the machine useless. As the other X-men arrive, Nefaria flees with the money and boards a ship, where he is confronted the Unicorn. They decide to share, but the briefcase vanishes - it was an illusion created by Nefaria’s machine. The stranger, who turns out to be a Professor Xavier, thanks to new lightweight flexible metal braces, used the Count’s invention against him. The team is happy to have won, but Jean receives a letter with disturbing news – she has to leave the team.
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