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Issue Details

Issue #132
Published April 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jim Salicrup
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Cover Details

Characters Cyclops; Storm; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Sebastian Shaw; Harry Leland; Donald Pierce; Mastermind
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Dan Crespi
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.
Reprinted in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

17 page X-Men story "And Hellfire is Their Name!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Angel; Candy Southern; VILLAINS: Hellfire Club--Sebastian Shaw; Harry Leland (1st Full); Donald Pierce (1st Full); Mastermind; Tessa (1st); Hellfire Soldiers; CAMEO FLASHBACK: White Queen [Emma Frost]; Dazzler; Kitty Pryde
Synopsis The X-Men seek out Angel's advice on how to deal with the Hellfire Club as he is a member; The X-Men infiltrate the Club and are beaten by the inner circle; Mastermind works his final mojo on Jean Grey and she becomes the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club; Wolverine is the only X-Man left to mount a rescue.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot); Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Last panel of Wolverine in the sewers promising his solo revenge on the Hellfire Club is one of the most famous (and tributed) Wolvie images on file.
Reprinted in Uncanny X-Men, The (Marvel, 1984 series) #nn; in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #38 (October 1989); in X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 1991 series) #nn; in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (1997); in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #13; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]