| Characters |
FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [1st; Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Moira MacTaggert; Peter Corbeau; VILLAINS: Black Tom Cassidy (1st Full); Juggernaut; CAMEOS: Clark Gable; Fred Astaire; Groucho Marx (all Nightcrawler) |
| Synopsis |
The X-Men's shuttle crash lands in Jamaica Bay and Jean rises from the wreckage as the Phoenix; 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 and his pal Juggy. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Chris Claremont |
| Pencils |
Dave Cockrum |
| Inks |
Frank Chiaramonte |
| Colors |
Bonnie Wilford |
| Letters |
John Costanza |
| Notes |
Of course, as all now know, Jean and Phoenix are two separate entities (the latter taking the former for a template), and not the same being as the story insinuates. |
| Reprinted |
in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #9; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #12 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1; In X-Men Vol. 1, No. 101 (Marvel, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #71 [part 1, as reprinted and modified in Classic X-Men #9]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #72 [part 2, as reprinted and modified in Classic X-Men #9]; in X-Men Classic (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #3 |