COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Men 116 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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0901162006
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
December 1978
"To Save the Savage Land"
Chris Claremont - Co-Plotter, Scripter
John Byrne - Co-Plotter, Penciler
Terry Austin - Inker
Tom Orzechowski - Letterer
Glynis Wein - Colorist
Roger Stern - Editor
Jim Shooter - Editor-in-Chief
Synopsis:
Ka-Zar leads the X-Men to Garokk’s City of the Sun God, which is inadvertently affecting the ecological balance of the Savage Land. They are attacked by airborne warriors and Cyclops, Colossus, Banshee and Ka-Zar are taken captive. Wolverine leads a rescue party to the city and they infiltrate the recently created structure, discovering their friends being held in the center of a huge arena. Colossus is consumed by flames, but remains defiant in the face of death. Nightcrawler suddenly teleports next to Cyclops, who frees Piotr. Soon the whole team acts like one and free one another whilst Cyclops heads after Garokk, who flees to the roof of the city’s dome. There, the two men battle, but their efforts begin to destroy the fragile city and it starts to collapse. The X-Men and Ka-Zar help evacuate the place, as Cyclops and Garokk find their battle interrupted when the domed roof crumbles. They fall but Banshee saves Cyclops from certain death. Storm attempts to recover Garokk, but her claustrophobia prevents her from reaching him. She emerges from the destruction safely, but all too alone. Later, Ka-Zar and Karl Lykos wish the X-Men well and they depart the Savage Land, only to be caught up in a fearsome gale.
Notes:
- Valhalla Mountain is in Colorado, home of NORAD and the scene of John Proudstar’s death in X-Men (1st series) #95.
- The authors appear to have taken some creative license in giving the pterosaurs such prehensile tails.
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