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Issue Details

Issue #117
Published January 1979
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roger Stern
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Cover Details - "Psi-War!"

Characters Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Nightcrawler; Shadow King
Genre superhero
Pencils Dave Cockrum (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Dan Crespi; Morrie Kuramoto
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #22; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1; in Grandson of Origins (Marvel, 1998 series) #nn; in X-Men Vol. 1, No. 117 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2004 series) #[nn]

17 page X-Men story "Psi War!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X (Origin); Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Moira MacTaggert; Lilandra; Misty Knight; VILLAIN: Shadow King [1st; Amahl Farouk]
Synopsis The X-Men adrift on the ocean are picked up by a Japanese ship; Xavier recounts an early adventure where he first met Storm as a thief in Cairo and did battle with the Shadow King.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot), Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Clem Robins
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #23; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1; in Grandson of Origins (Marvel, 1998 series) #nn; in X-Men Vol. 1, No. 117 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #7.