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Issue Details

Issue #281
Published October 1991
Cover Price 1.00
Pages 36
Editing Suzanne Gaffney (Assistant); Bob Harras
Notes Wraparound Cover; Red tinted 2nd print exists

Cover Details - "Desperate Alliances!"

Characters Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; Sentinels
Genre superhero
Pencils Whilce Portacio
Inks Art Thibert
Notes Wraparound Cover; Red tinted 2nd print exists

23 page X-Men story "Fresh Upstart"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; GUEST: Gateway; VILLAINS: Trevor Fitzroy (1st); Sentinels; Donald Pierce; Lady Deathstrike; Cylla; Reavers [Bonebraker; Murray Reese; Pretty Boy; Wade Cole; Angelo Macon]; White Queen; Hellfire Club; Shinobi Shaw; Hellions--Roulette; Tarot; Empath; Catspaw; Beef (Death); Jetstream (Death)
Synopsis X-Men Gold Team is formed (X-Men Blue appear in the new X-Men #1); Trevor Fitzroy of the Upstarts sends Sentinels to slaughter Donald Pierce and the Reavers as well as the White Queen and the Hellions (and doesn't do a shabby job of taking out both).
Genre superhero
Script Jim Lee (Co-Plot); Whilce Portacio (Co-Plot); John Byrne
Pencils Whilce Portacio
Inks Art Thibert
Colors Joe Rosas
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes 1st Mention of the "Upstarts"--a band of bad guys who gather points by killing mutant super-folk.
Reprinted in Incredibili X-Men, Gli (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #51