Collection X
X-Men 101

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: X-Men #101 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1129554012
Owner: LonelyPost

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Collection X
Date Added: 10/11/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Highlights:
The first appearance of Phoenix!! and Jean Grey dies .... Thus begins the many lives and deaths of Jean Grey. Iconic cover of Phoenix rising up from the sea. Wolverine reveals he likes Jean Grey for the first time.

Cover Pencils: Dave Cockrum / Danny Crespi
Cover Inks: Dave Cockrum

Title: Like a Phoenix, From the Ashes

Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Dave Cockrum
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
Colors: Bonnie Wilford
Letters: John Costanza
Editor: Archie Goodwin

Cover Date: Oct 1976
Cover Price: 30 cents

Synopsis:
The X-Men's Starcore shuttle crash lands in Jamaica Bay with Jean Grey at the helm piloting the ship, thus sacrificing herself. She made an emergency landing at JFK Airport, but the shuttle skids off the runway and crashes into Jamaica Bay, smashing into pieces. The X-Men and Peter Corbeau rise to the surface and Scott immediately begins looking for signs of Jean. The group are all shocked when Jean suddenly rises out of the water in a new costume and proclaims herself to be power incarnate, and calls herself Phoenix. Just as she majestically rises out of the water she soon passes out and falls into the water below. Cyclops and the others pull Jean to shore and try to become as inconspicuous as possible before ambulances arrive on the scene. Prof X uses his mental powers so that none recall the X-Men being there.

To facilitate Jean's recovery, Prof X sends all of the X-Men but Cyclops to Scotland on vacation where Banshee has just inherited his ancestral castle; The X-Men show up at the castle and find it already inhabited by Sean's cousin Tom Cassidy also know as Black Tom and his pal Juggernaut. Story continues in #102.


Personal Note:
My second 101, which was an upgrade over the the previous 9.6. it was a grail for me then.
  
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