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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 144 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 144 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 145 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 145 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4709422005
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum & Joe Rubinstein (artists), Joe Rosen
(letterer), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter
(editor-in-chief)
Brief Description:
Ororo and Stevie Hunter's trip to the ballet is interrupted by Miss Locke, who
explains she needs the X-Men to rescue Arcade from Doctor Doom. She has
captured the Greys, Moira MacTaggert, Candy Southern, Amanda Sefton and Illyana
Rasputin to ensure their cooperation, and takes Stevie to complete the set.
Storm informs Professor X, who summons Ex-X-Men Havok, Polaris, Iceman and Banshee to the
mansion, as they need help to rescue their loved ones. While the four newcomers
prepare to rescue the hostages from Murderworld, the rest go to Doom's castle.
Storm's attempt to distract Doom while the others rescue Arcade fails, and
Storm finds herself transformed to chrome, while the other X-Men are easily
defeated.
Meanwhile, Scott and Lee Forrester find themselves stranded on a deserted island
after a freak storm; Scott is without his ruby quartz glasses.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 148 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 148 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 150 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 150 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4599105007
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Dave Cockrum, Joseph Rubinstein & Bob Wiacek (artists),Tom Orzechowski & Jean Simek (letterers), Glynis Wein (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
Magneto gives the world’s governments an ultimatum. They are to relinquish all governing power to him or he will destroy the world. When a Russian submarine attacks his island, he destroys it and the uses his new machine to create a volcano under a Russian town. His prisoners, Cyclops, who is powerless thanks to another device of Magneto’s, and Lee Forrester decide they must stop him, though they don’t yet know how. In the meantime, the X-Men have been searching the area in their plane, looking for the disappeared Scott. When they fly over the island, the forcefield causes the plane’s controls to go haywire and they crash into the ocean. Without Magneto noticing, they join up with Cyclops and Lee. While their powers are gone, Cyclops reminds them that they still have skills and that hey have to stop Magneto. The men try to destroy the device Magneto uses to move the earth crust, while the women go looking for his computers. They soon find them but Kitty finds she cannot make head or tails of his notes, as they are written in a foreign language. Storm scout the rooms and finds Magneto asleep. She debates whether to kill him but hesitates too long. As he awakens and finds her with a knife, he magnetically tosses her outside the room, which is a quarter mile above the ground. Professor Xavier is on a yacht not too far away. He mentally attacks Magneto but the villain simply uses his powers to bring Xavier’s wheelchair – and Xavier as well – to him. He then takes Kitty and Lee prisoner and confronts the rest of the X-Men, who were just successful in destroying the machine – for all the good it does them, as Magneto easily reassembles it with his powers. Storm has survived, though, managing to hold onto a projection outside Magneto’s room. She returns to the lab and destroys several computer controls. As the X-Men’s powers return, Cyclops hits Magneto with an optic blast and the team fights him, soon joined by an angry Storm. While the others battle, Cyclops asks Kitty to find Magneto’s data banks and destroy them. Kitty finds them and phases through the system, destroying the data. Magneto notices that and joins her in the lab. He is so furious that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Trying to get away from him, Kitty phases. As she phases though his electrical field, it causes him pain and he responds with a nearly lethal does of electricity. Seeing Kitty’s limp form, he comes to his senses and realizes what he’s done. Scared by his past in the Nazi deathcamp, Auschwitz, he had vowed to create a safe future for mutants and now he has killed a child of his own species. Storm joins them, intent on killing him, but faced with his genuine grief and remorse she refrains from doing so, suggesting that it is not yet too late for him to change. Magneto leaves and Kitty survives, thanks to her phasing power. In fact, she’s recovered enough to play a joke on the others. Xavier isn’t too bothered about Magneto’s escape. He believes that this time they were able to challenge Magneto’s dream and there is a chance that he might come out of the experience a changed and better man.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 152 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 152 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 155 |
| Item: |
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 |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 157 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 157 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 158 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 158 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 165 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 165 Signature |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
4720131001
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Owner Comments
Staff:
Chris Claremont (writer), Paul Smith (penciler), Bob Wiacek (inker), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Lynn Varley (colorist), Louise Jones (editor), Jim Shooter (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
In the wake of Binary's exit, the explosive decompression in the hangar threatens to suck the X-Men into space, until they manage to seal the hole. In the meantime, Storm, alone in her shuttle, is suffering from an ethical crisis. Should she kill the Brood embryo within her, although that goes against her beliefs, or allow it to kill her when she transforms? The decision is taken out of her hands as the transformation starts but, before it is finished, the shuttle enters the galactic core and the sudden influx of energy allows Ororo to re-establish herself. She decides on a third option and channels so much energy through herself that she destroys the embryo and the shuttle as well. She floats dying in space until she is swallowed by something big. On the Z'reee Shar, Lilandra and Wolverine decide to return to Broodworld for revenge. Reluctantly, Cyclops agrees. Later, Wolverine catches Nightcrawler praying and, after a conversation about faith or lack thereof, the two friends decide to search the ship for some alcohol. Kitty, in the meantime, is suffering from a nightmare where she becomes one with the Brood. Awakening, she is comforted by Colossus and the two reveal their true feelings to each other. Suddenly, they are joined by an astral form of Storm that looks like a vampire. All the X-Men are visited astral forms of different versions of Storm until, finally, Storm, as she is supposed to look, appears before them at the same time as the ship is swallowed by something big. Ororo explains that the creature is an Acanti - a space whale - and that she and it are now one. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Mora informs Charles about a letter from Mr Fantastic, regarding a young mutant named Karma whose powers are threatening to go out of control. Xavier refuses to get involved until Moira threatens that she may take Karma to the Hellfire Club or Magneto. Better to be taught by a villain, than to be doomed from the start. She then reminds Xavier of her son Proteus and his fate. Finally, Xavier gives in and calls Reed Richards.
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| Slot: |
Uncanny X-Men 166 |
| Item: |
Uncanny X-Men 166 Signature |
| Grade: |
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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| Slot: |
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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| Slot: |
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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