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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published August 1994
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.95 USD; 4.00 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (Editor); Tom DeFalco (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details

Characters Cyclops; Jean Grey; Nathan Christopher Summers [Cable; Nathan Dayspring]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gene Ha
Inks Gene Ha

23 page Cyclops; Jean Grey story "Sacrifice"

Characters Cyclops; Jean Grey; Nathan Christopher Summers [Cable; Nathan Dayspring]; GUESTS: Prior Turrin; Rachel Summers; VILLAINS: Apocalypse; Stryfe; Ch'Vayre
Synopsis More years pass as Scott and Jean raise Nathan Christopher in a future ruled by Apocalypse; When Nate reaches puberty, the techo-organic virus in his system runs out of control and threatens to kill him; Nathan is visited psychically by his "sister," Rachel Summers, who teaches him how to keep the virus in check; With Nate once again healthy, he joins Scott and Jean in an attack on Apocalypse who is trying to transfer his essence into the young body of Stryfe; With a little help from Apocalypse' most trusted soldier, Ch'Vayre, they do just that and Apocalypse is destroyed; With their purpose in the future completed, Scott and Jean start to fade back into their own past; As they go, Jean is visited by the image of Rachel who asks her to once again take up the name of Phoenix in remembrance of her; Scott bids a rapid farewell to his son and plants the initial seed of his future code name, Cable.
Genre superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Gene Ha
Inks Al Vey; Bill Anderson; Al Milgrom; Joe Rubinstein
Colors Kevin Somers
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Notes Continued in Askani' Son (Marvel, 1996 series) #1