| Characters |
FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde; GUESTS: Illyana Rasputin; Story Characters--Pirate Kitty; Colossus (The True Love); The Noble Prince (Cyclops); The Wizard (Professor X); The Genie (Storm); Bamf (Nightcrawler); The Fiend With No Name (Wolverine); Lockheed the Dragon; The Enchanted Princess (Jean Grey) |
| Synopsis |
Kitty tells Illyana a fairy tale using the X-Men as a character base. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Chris Claremont |
| Pencils |
Dave Cockrum (loose blue pencils); Joe Rubinstein (finished art) |
| Inks |
Joe Rubinstein |
| Colors |
Glynis Wein |
| Letters |
Tom Orzechowski |
| Notes |
Dave Cockrum reports 2006 that "I did loose pencils in blue. Editor Ann Nocenti referred to them as 'shakedowns'. But everything was there." Illyana's Fairy Tale is in X-Men Annual #8; Lockheed the Dragon (patterned after the X-Men's plane) pre-dates the 1st app. of the real Lockheed. |
| Reprinted |
In Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #3; in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #57; in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #7 (October 2010); in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #39 [part 1]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #40 [part 2] |