Set Description:
All 9.8 set with 35 and growing Signature Series books. Well now there are 2 9.6 due to signatures grading drops
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Uncanny X-Men 144 |
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Uncanny X-Men 144 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4295913001
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Brent Anderson (guest penciler), Joseph Rubinstein (Inker),Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
Jock Forrester kills himself in the Everglades after learning that he is incurably ill. His pain draws the Man-Thing close and his death frees the demon D’Spayre, who temporarily destroys the Man-Thing and takes on Forrester’s form. He calls Forrester’s daughter, Lee, on the phone, inviting her to visit him. Lee is Captain of the trawler Scott Summers is working on. She invites him to come along visit her father. They are expected by D’Spayre, who imprisons them. He forces Cyclops to relive bad times in his past turned into nightmare scenarios, until Scott can’t take it anymore and jumps out of the window. Outside, he is joined by the reborn Man-Thing and, together, they face D’Spayre once more. Scott now realizes that it is despair that gives the demon strength and, refusing to give in, he finds the strength to hold him, just as the Man-Thing finds the strength to beat him – for the time being. Cyclops takes the unconscious Lee and leaves the burning house. Back at the X-Mansion, the X-Men are still trying to repair the damage to the house done by Sprite’s battle with the demon. Angel offers to help with the costs and Wolverine and Nightcrawler make fun of Kitty, who takes their taunts more serious than they were intended.
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Uncanny X-Men 148 |
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Uncanny X-Men 148 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4287289002
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum (penciler), Joe Rubinstein (inker), Glynis Oliver (colorist), Janice Chiang (letterer), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor in chief)
Brief Description:
Angel leaves the X-Men since he can’t stand Wolverine’s outrages anymore. Spiderwoman brings a young woman to the school, she turns out to be Banshee’s daughter of whom he had no knowledge. Moira is a little bit jealous. Storm, Spiderwoman, Stevie Hunter and Kitty Pryde go out to see the Dazzler perform, but the concert is disturbed by Caliban who sensed beings like him. Overeager Kitty tries to deal with the crisis, but is captured. Spiderwoman and Storm rescue her while Dazzler deals with the crowd. It turns out that the ugly mutant was feeling lonely and only wanted a companion. The incident makes Kitty realize how bad she has been treating Nightcrawler because of his strange looks.
In the Bermuda Triangle, Scott Summers and Lee Forrester investigate the strange island that raised in front of them. Suddenly they run into Magneto.
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Uncanny X-Men 152 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 152 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4287289003
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Bob McLeod (penciler), Josef Rubinstein (inker), Don Warfield (colorist), Janice Chiang (letterer), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor in chief)
Brief Description:
Pursued by Emma Frost (in Storm’s body), Storm (in Emma’s body) makes her escape from the Massachusetts Academy with Kitty Pryde. Kitty awakens and is frightened, thinking that Storm is Emma. She attempts an escape and Storm’s efforts to stop her result in the car going off the road and down an embankment. Kitty falls separately, protected by her phasing power, while the car explodes upon impact. Emma leaves, thinking them both dead. Kitty finds what she thinks to be the body of Emma Frost, lying just outside the fire from the car’s explosion. Though Kitty does not believe her at first, Storm manages to convince Kitty to help her, since she cannot take the risk of the other X-Men being in danger. Meanwhile, the other X-Men believe Storm has become the new White Queen at Shaw’s side. Guards take Wolverine from the room where they are being held captive. Storm and Kitty are picked up by Stevie Hunter and driven back to the mansion. After dropping them off and saying goodbye, Stevie is captured by Emma and Shaw. Within the mansion, Harry Leland seemingly kills Wolverine in the Danger Room, but it is merely the appearance of death, created by Amanda Sefton. Storm uses Emma’s psionic powers to help Kitty unlock mansion’s hanger’s hatch, as Kitty is able to phase through the earth to get to it. The two manage to get inside before Emma and Shaw, still patrolling the outdoors, attack them. Inside, Kitty finds Wolverine and they exchange information. Kitty frees the X-Men by phasing through their inhibitor collars. Shaw is thrown by Colossus through a hole in the wall that Shaw had created, into the lake. The X-Men and the members of the Hellfire Club battle until a freak storm appears. On his way back, Shaw is struck down by an extremely intense bolt of lightning. Storm forces a psionic rapport with Emma in order to control the storm and then uses the persona exchange gun to switch their bodies back. All this occurs far up in the sky. Emma falls and Storm saves her just before impact, a favor for which Emma shows her appreciation by proceeding to attack Storm. Her patience depleted, Storm goes wild and intends to kill Emma, but is stopped by Wolverine’s reasoning that Storm is the type of person to show others a different way of resolving such situations. Since both groups fear exposure, they agree not to involve the authorities. Emma explains that, until Shaw recovers, the X-Men have nothing to fear from the Hellfire Club but, inwardly, vows that someday the X-Men will all die.
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Uncanny X-Men 153 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 153 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
2504945003
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum & Josef Rubinstein (artists), Glynis Wein (colorist), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
The X-Men try to make repairs to the demolished mansion, but Xavier fears the cost is too high. In the meantime, Kitty tells the frightened Illyana a bedtime story and soon all the X-Men eavesdrop. Kitty’s story is a fantasy retelling of the Dark Phoenix saga, with her as a heroine, lots of humor and a happy ending, much to the joy of her friends, especially Cyclops.
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Uncanny X-Men 155 |
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Uncanny X-Men 155 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851002
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum, & Bob Wiacek (artists), Joe Rosen (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
Cyclops is furious at Corsair and angry at Storm for keeping Corsair’s identity a secret. Corsair tries to explain that he believed his sons to have died in the Shi’ar attack, but Cyclops refuses to accept this answer. Their argument is interrupted when the three of them alongside the other X-Men are teleported aboard a Shi’ar dreadnought, where Lord Chancellor Araki informs them that Lilandra has been kidnapped by parties unknown, though the trail leads to Earth. The belligerent Admiral Samedar wants war but Xavier gets them to compromise, leaving the X-Men one day to try and find Lilandra their way. However, they have to leave two hostages and ultimately decide on Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde. Back on Earth, the X-Men try to enlist the Avengers’ help but only find their latest member, Tigra (and their butler). Storm, in the meantime, accompanies Corsair on a trip to New York. There, they are shot at with a psi-scream, a weapon that amplifies their fears by the true culprit: Deathbird and her allies, the Brood. Storm and Corsair are saved by the arrival of the other X-Men and Tigra. While fighting their foes, Deatbird tries to shoot Xavier and ends up firing acid at Colossus instead but the recovered Storm saves him with her weather powers. Storm and Corsair then leave Colossus and Xavier behind to capture the Brood and Deathbird. They fail to do so and find that, in the meantime, Deathbird has attacked again, taking Xavier hostage and apparently killing Colossus. Aboard the Shi’ar dreadnought, Kitty uses the knowledge Xavier has implanted into her brain to hack into the Shi’ar computers.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 156 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 156 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851005
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum, & Bob Wiacek (artists), Warfield (letterer), Janice Chiang (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
The X-Men are horrified to see Colossus lethally injured as they and Tigra are surrounded by cops. Luckily, the Starjammer arrives and beams them aboard, where Corsair learns that his comrades escaped the Shi’ar. Aboard, Colossus also is saved by the Starjammers’ doctor Sikorsky. In the meantime, Xavier awakes, sensing something wrong within himself and as a prisoner of the Brood and Deathbird. On the upside though, he shares a cell with Lilandra. Deatbird’s ally, Admiral Samedar, shows his prisoners, Nightcrawler and Sprite, footage of Deathbid seemingly killing Colossus to taunt them. The Starjammers give chase to Deathbird’s vessel only to be captured by the huge Broodship. Aboard, the Starjammers and X-Men fight the Brood while Corsair and Cyclops rescue Xavier and Lilandra. Together with them, they escape. However, the bad news is that they won’t be able to finish repairs to the damaged Starjammers before Earth’s deadline expires…
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Uncanny X-Men 157 |
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Uncanny X-Men 157 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851006
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum, & Bob Wiacek (artists), Don Warfield (letterer), Janice Chiang (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
The X-Men and Starjammers try their best to repair the Starjammer before the Shi’ar’s deadline for Earth runs out. In the process, Colossus reopens his wounds and needs to be treated again. Lilandra tries to reach the Shi’ar battle fleet in vain – unbeknownst to her, the traitor Samedar has killed her loyal chancellor Araki and is preventing her signal from being heard. Xavier mentally contacts Nightcrawler and Kitty aboard the Shi’ar cruiser to inform them Lilandra is safe. In the process, he becomes aware of a wrongness within him. As he examines it, he is mentally hit by something and falls into a coma. Using their ingenuity and the knowledge Xavier previously implanted in Kitty’s mind, Kurt and Kitty escape their cell and find the murdered Araki. Using the clothing-designer, Kitty scares the Shi’ar by pretending to be Dark Phoenix, while Kurt kidnaps the Shi’ar telepath Oracle. Once she can corroborate their story, some other trustworthy members of the Guard come to their side. However, the larger part of the Guard follows Samedar and battle ensues. Samedar plays dirty and all the good guys are captured. But when Samedar tries to destroy Earth the Starjammer intercepts just in the nick of time. Lilandra addresses the fleet and tells them to stand down and arrest Samedar. In the meantime, Deathbird gets back into the Brood’s good graces by offering them the X-Men as breeding material.
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Uncanny X-Men 158 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 158 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4599105008
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Bill Sienkiewicz, & Bob Wiacek (artists), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
The X-Men intend to visit their friend, Misty Knight, in Greenwich Village and stay with her for the weekend. Instead, they run into her roommate, Harmony Young. After introductions are made, Harmony happily invites them and even lends Storm and Kitty some clothes for their meeting with Kitty’s parents. While Kitty spends the weekend with her folks, Ororo is supposed to return to the X-Men, but is instead mugged and brought to the hospital with an injured jugular. Strangely, her health takes a bad turn during the next few days and, when Kitty returns and sees her, she becomes convinced that Ororo is the victim of a vampire. Her outlandish guess proves correct, as Dracula himself wants Storm for his bride ands he willingly follows him. The X-Men chase them to Central Park where Dracula fights the male X-Men, while Kitty confronts Storm, who while still alive already acts like a vampire. Kitty shows faith in Ororo and manages to break the hypnotic hold Dracula has on her. Storm confronts Dracula and finally wins her freedom. In New Mexico, Corsair’s reunion with his sons continues, though he doesn’t know if he wants them to accompany him back into space. Moira MacTaggert finally calls the X-Men, telling them Xavier’s health has taken a turn for the worse and they and Cyclops are to return to Muir.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 164 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 164 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851007
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum (penciler), Bob Wiacek (inker), Joe Rosen (letterer), Janine Casey (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
The Brood-hunterships try their best to capture the X-Men's yacht without killing them. The X-Men and friends fight back, using their powers and weapons. Storm, though, notes that, for some reason, her powers are out of control and after accidentally destroying one Brood ship, she refuses to chance killing any more. In the fight, the Brood manage to damage the yacht's warp-drive and, against the protests of the others, Kitty steps outside to repair the drive, getting hit by a piece of shrapnel in the process. In the meantime, Carol Danvers' body reacts to the modification the Brood put her through. She turns into an energy form that is powered by a "white hole" and uses her new powers to destroy the Brood ships. Kitty's repairs completed, the yacht enters warp-space. Later, Carol uses her powers to re-energize the depleted matter-antimatter drive. While the X-Men effect their repairs, Nightcrawler is puzzled that Kitty's managed to completely recover from her lethal injuries. Storm, in the meantime, is ailing and doesn't know why, until she realizes there is a living being inside her. Realizing the truth, she steals a scoutship and leaves. Cyclops demands answers from Wolverine, who finally relents and tells the others that they are hosts to Brood embryos and what that means. Carol goes ballistic and flies outside, not realizing that the hole she?s burned into the hull endangers the others. Back on Earth, Xavier notices some strangeness about Illyana but finds he no longer has the strength to care.
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Uncanny X-Men 166 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 166 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851008
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Paul Smith (penciler), Bob Wiacek (inker),Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
Near Broodworld, Binary kills a Brood outpost used to capture & enslave Acanti. As it is too late to save their prey – an ancient Acanti –Carol is forced to kill it. She is joined by Storm, who can apparently easily exist in space without any life support. Storm leads Carol to a newborn Acanti and explains that this is only an astral form – she has become one with the Acanti. Inside the space whale, Lilandra’s yacht is hidden. Carol and Storm join the X-Men inside, who are out for the Brood’s blood. Storm offers an alternative: to save the Acanti –who are preyed upon by the Brood – instead. The Acanti have a race’s soul that is caught in the carcass of their dead prophet-singer on Brood world. If they can destroy the carcass and free the soul, it could join with this newborn prophet-singer and lead the Acanti to freedom. The X-Men agree to help and come up with a plan. Storm/the Acanti and Binary will distract the Brood while the others beam down and make a run for the soul. The X-Men do exactly that, unaware that one of them is already being controlled by his or her embryo, who telepathically informs the Brood Queen about their plans. Carol and Storm run interference. Despite their vast powers, they are almost captured until unexpected help arrives in the form of the Starjammers. On the planet, the X-Men fight their way down against the world’s predators. Wolverine notices more and more that Cyclops is acting out of character, until he finally takes away his visor and reveals him as being part Brood already. Cyclops sucker punches him and Colossus and the others are surprised and beaten by the newly arrived Queen and her guards. Kitty, however, had been separated from the others some time earlier and is saved from a cadre of Brood by a cute little purple dragon. As one of the Brood destroys a tunnel wall, light emanates from the cavern behind it, calling Kitty and hurting the Brood. In the meantime, Cyclops’ metamorphosis truly starts and his powers go out of control. Wolverine throws himself into the beam and so gets rid of his shackles and takes Cyclops and the Queen as hostages, forcing the Brood to free the others. He follows Kitty’s scent to the glowing crystal cavern, where they find the Acanti soul. Unfortunately, the presence of the Queen and of the embryos in them starts to corrupt the cavern as the X-Men’s transformations start. As Wolverine plans to kill them, the Queen mocks that, even if he should succeed, there is another embryo that will doom his world. He is stopped by Carol who uses her energy powers to free the prophet-singer soul, which joins with the baby prophet singer. Before it leaves, though, it purges the X-Men of their embryos and turns the Queen into crystal. Broodworld gets torn apart as a result but the Starjammers beam the X-Men away first. On the Starjammer they are joined by Storm, who was also restored by the soul. Everybody’s in a partying mood until Wolverine announces he’s figured out what the Queen meant with her last words: there is another Brood embryo and it can only be within Charles Xavier.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 167 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 167 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851010
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Paul Smith (penciler), Bob Wiacek (inker),Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Any Yanchus & Glynis Wein (colorists), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
The New Mutants are enjoying a quiet evening of television when, without any warning, the X-Men attack. The two teams fight while Kitty sneaks upstairs to deal with the professor, unsure whether that's right. Kitty catches the still-human Xavier sleeping and takes that as a good sign, unaware that his Brood embryo is already in control and that he has been playing possum. "Xavier" telepathically takes Kitty out and then fully transforms into a Brood Queen before the horrified others. With a lot of teamwork, the X-Men and Binary eventually manage to bring the Queen down. As Cyclops wants to deliver the killing blow, he realizes that Xavier's personality still exists alongside that of the Queen, as he begs Cyclops to kill him. Given that new wrinkle, Cyclops decides to try and save him. The Starjammers' physician, Sikorsky, and Moira MacTaggert decide to create a clone of Xavier and then transplant his mind. In the meantime, Kitty awakens and Storm realizes that she now plays second fiddle to Kitty, as opposed to Colossus and Illyana. Nightcrawler, in the meantime, is unsure whether the New Mutants will accept him. During a father/son talk, Corsair tells Cyclops that his grandparents are still alive and suggests visiting them when this is over. They are interrupted by an unexpected visitor: Gladiator, praetor of the Imperial Guard. Gladiator informs Lilandra that Deathbird has become Empress of the Shi'ar, but that she is mad and unfit to rule. There is more grave news though: Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four saved the life of the world-devourer, Galactus. Lilandra angrily contacts the Fantastic Four and promises them reprisals, should Galactus destroy any world known to the Shi'ar. In the meantime, the operation has been successfully finished. Xavier now has a new body - with working legs to boot. However, he finds he can't stand or walk as there is still a powerful psychosomatic effect caused by his PSI powers. Nevertheless, he is happy to have the X-Men back alive. He introduces the New Mutants and announces that, as of now, Kitty will join the junior team.
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Uncanny X-Men 169 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 169 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4211934006
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Paul Smith (Penciler), Bob Wiacek (Inker),Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
The former X-Man, Angel, is kidnapped and his girlfriend, Candy, is attacked and almost murdered. Candy manages to place a call to Professor X, though, and he sends Nightcrawler to save her. Later, the X-Men follow the kidnapper’s trail into the subway and even further down, where they are attacked by strangely deformed people. Eventually, they find the Angel as a prisoner of Callisto, leader of these Morlocks, mutants all. Callisto intends to keep Angel as her love-slave. The X-Men attack but find themselves eventually overwhelmed. Kitty, in the meantime, has scouted ahead and become separated from the others. When she eavesdrops on Callisto and some other Morlocks, one of them, named Plague, infects her with a fast-working illness. The delirious Kitty is found by the sad Morlock, Caliban, who tries to help her. Realizing that he cannot cure her, he intends to ask Callisto and Plague to help, believing that then Kitty will stay with him out of gratitude. In the meantime, Sebastian Shaw is informed by his aide, Tessa, that Emma Frost fell into a coma without any discernible reason.
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Uncanny X-Men 172 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 172 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4231851011
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Owner Comments
Story Title:
Scarlet in Glory
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Paul Smith (Penciler), Bob Wiacek (Inker),Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
The X-Men have been invited to Mariko Yashida’s home in preparation for her wedding to Wolverine. He happily welcomes his teammates but is shocked and angered to learn that Rogue is now an X-Man. They are being spied upon by the Silver Samurai who, in turn, is attacked by Yukio, a newly found friend of Wolverine’s. Hearing the commotion, the X-Men hurry to help. The Samurai escapes and the X-Men discuss what the reason for this attack was – probably Clan Yashida’s ties to the underworld, which Mariko’s late father, Shingen, forged, Wolverine assumes. The X-Men are unaware that the household has been infiltrated by the Samurai’s partner, Viper, who manages to poison all the X-Men, save for Storm.
Mariko, in the meantime, has received a message from the Samurai and secretly leaves to meet him, unaware that her chauffeur is Yukio. The two women trade places and Yukio goes to meet the Samurai (Mariko’s half-brother, who demands leadership of the clan), Viper and Nabatone, a Japanese crimelord. Yukio’s cover is quickly blown and a fight breaks out. As Viper runs to the limousine to kill Mariko, she is expected by Storm, whom Yukio called. Storm tries to stop the Samurai but finds her powers going out of control, almost killing her until Yukio propels them both into the water. The two injured women flee, while the Samurai threatens them. Back at the hospital, Wolverine plans to take out the Samurai and Rogue, who was less affected, thanks to her half-alien metabolism, and insists on accompanying him.
Meanwhile, in Alaska, Cyclops rifles through Madelyne Pryor’s files, trying to find out what her connection to Phoenix is. His brother, Alex, asks him to stop doing this to himself - all those similarities are just coincidence, but still Scott doubts.
Characters Involved:
Ariel, Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine (all X-Men)
Havok (former X-Man)
Mariko Yashida (Wolverine’s fiancée)
Yukio ( self-proclaimed Ronin, friend and one-time lover of Wolverine)
Lockheed, the Dragon
Toni (Mariko’s maid)
Other attendants of Clan Yashida
Viper
Keniuchio Harada / Silver Samurai (Mariko’ half-brother)
Mystery villain posing as Nabatone Yokuse (a Japanese crimelord)
Story Notes:
This is the first issue where Rogue sports a stripe of white hair in the middle of her hair instead of two streaks at her temples. No explanation for that change is given in the book, but it was probably a cosmetic decision by the staff. White streaks are usually associated with middle-age, while Rogue is approximately 18 years old at he time.
Wolverine’s conflict with Shingen, his affair with Yukio and his betrothal to Mariko all took place in the first Wolverine limited Series.
Rogue inadvertently absorbed Carol Danvers’ powers and personality permanently (Avengers annual #10). Wolverine takes this even harder than the other X-Men, since their friendship goes way back to the time before either of them was a superhero.
Viper and the Silver Samurai were last seen in New Mutants #5-6- terrorizing both the New Mutants and Team America. At that point they were believed to be responsible for the seeming death of the New Mutant Karma.
Gaijin is a derogative Japanese term for “foreigner.”
Rogue inherited her half-alien DNA from Ms. Marvel, who was a hybrid from perfect human and Kree DNA.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 177 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 177 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4133807003
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Owner Comments
Story Title:
Sanction
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), John Romita jr (penciler), John Romita sr. (inker), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Eliot Brown (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
Mystique fights X-Men robots in Arcade’s Murderworld, “killing” them all – including her foster daughter Rogue – but finding herself unable to harm Nightcrawler, who then beats her. Afterwards, she discusses with Arcade that she wants the rest of her train to train as well, as she is on a quest to get Rogue back from the X-Men. When Destiny wants to talk about Nightcrawler, Mystique refuses. Elsewhere, Kitty Pryde and Storm talk about their estrangement with each other to Stevie Hunter, while Xavier, Havok and Cyclops bid farewell to the Starjammers. Later, Kitty, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Amanda Sefton attend concert in Manhattan. While the younger two X-Men park the car, Nightcrawler discusses his roots with Amanda, revealing his similarity to Mystique and wishing to talk to his foster mother, Margali, about it. When Kitty and Colossus see a building burning, Colossus tells Kitty to call for help while he runs upstairs to help any trapped people. Instead however, it turns out to be a trap by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. With a carefully planned attack, they mange to freeze Colossus with liquid nitrogen.
Characters Involved:
Ariel, Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Storm (all X-Men)
Havok (former X-Man)
Amanda Sefton
Lilandra
Corsair
Stevie Hunter
Avalanche, Blob, Destiny, Mystique (all Brotherhood of Evil Mutants)
Arcade
Miss Locke
Arcade’s robots:
Ariel, Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine
Story Notes:
Kitty and Storm’s estrangement stems from Storm’s radical change in Uncanny X-Men #173. The plot is resolved in issue #180.
Kitty’s friend Doug Ramsey was introduced in New Mutants (1st series) #13.
Mystique hinted that there was more to her similarity to Nightcrawler than mere chance in issue #142. The subplot about their link which seems to start here strangely isn’t continued. Apparently, Chris Claremont had planned to reveal that Mystique was Nightcrawler’s father (and Destiny his mother), something that didn’t sit right with Marvel at the time, so the plotline was dropped. Mystique is eventually revealed to be Kurt’s mother (X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #4. For more about his origin, read the Nightcrawler Spotlight.
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Uncanny X-Men 185 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 185 Signature |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4133807010
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Owner Comments
Chris Claremont (writer), John Romita Jr. and Dan Green (artists), Glynis Wein (colorist), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Ann Nocenti (editor), Jim Shooter (editor in chief)
Agent Henry Gyrich and Valerie Cooper decide to use Forge’s Neutralizer to hunt Rogue. When Mystique learns of this while in her human identity of Raven Darkholme and knows and cannot stop them, she informs Forge, who is enraged by this betrayal of trust. Storm, in the meantime, is worried because Rogue is missing. She informs Xavier and they use Cerebro to search for her. Storm finds Rogue on the banks of the Mississippi, her old home. The two women talk a bit and Rogue tells her about her fears and frustrations. Storm offers a gesture of trust by allowing Rogue to temporarily absorb her powers. Rogue complies and enjoys the new perspective of the world. However, at that moment, she is attacked by Gyrich’s group and hit by a weak dose of the Neutralizer. She fights back using Storm’s power, inadvertently creating a hurricane that endangers a nearby tugboat crew. Storm regains consciousness and joins her. Despite the danger, the two of them try to save the boat crew. With them distracted, Gyrich fires at Rogue again, using the maximum setting, over the protest of Forge who has joined them. Storm shoves Rogue aside and is hit instead. As energy explodes from her, both women fall into the river. Forge manages to save the unconscious Storm. Unfortunately, he is unaware of the alien Dire Wraiths who plan to kill him before he can develop the Neutralizer into a threat to them. In Westchester, Rachel makes an anonymous call to Cyclops, her father, believing the woman he is married to Madelyne – to be her mother, Jean Grey, instead.
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