COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Men 134 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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0793097022
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
June 1980
"Too Late, the Heroes!"
Chris Claremont - Writer
John Byrne - Penciler
Terry Austin - Inker
Tom Orzechowski - Letterer
Bob Sharen - Colorist
Jim Salicrup - Editor
Jim Shooter - Editor-in-Chief
Synopsis:
Cyclops has survived his encounter with Wyngarde on the astral plane, albeit barely. However, their battle has had another effect, un-guessed by either, as Jean – the Black Queen – looks at both of them strangely. When Wolverine crashes into the room, intent on freeing his friends, Wyngarde orders Jean to stop him. She complies, but secretly also uses her powers to free Cyclops – she has shaken off Wyngarde’s control. Cyclops acts quickly and decisively, freeing the other X-Men. Now, with surprise on their side, the X-Men handle the Club members astonishingly well, though they get split up in the process. Wolverine does Leland a grievous injury, as the other mutant uses his gravity-increasing power on him. Colossus destroys one of Pierce’s bionic arms and Shaw only barely escapes from Storm and Nightcrawler. He vows grimly that the X-Men will pay for this. Elsewhere, Mastermind was trying to slip away unnoticed, but Jean easily confronts him and, in revenge for what he has set in motion within her, drives him mad, by forcing upon him the powers and perceptions of a god. The X-Men flee in their plane, intent on getting back to New Mexico, but they are too late as the aftermath of Mastermind’s manipulations is a startling change in Jean. She transforms into an evil version of herself – Dark Phoenix – and blows up the X-Men’s plane. In the meantime, Avengers’ Mansion has been alerted to the goings-on at the Hellfire Club. Currently on monitor duty is the former X-Man, Beast, who decides to ignore his duty and help his old friends instead.
Notes:
Dark Phoenix is repeating the exact words she first spoke upon her transformation into Phoenix in X-Men (1st series) #101.
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