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Issue Details

Issue #268
Published Late September 1990
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Suzanne Gaffney (Assistant); Bob Harras

Cover Details

Characters Wolverine; Captain America; Black Widow
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Lee
Inks Scott Williams
Reprinted in Wolverine: Origins (Marvel, 2006 series) #16 (October 2007); in Incredibili X-Men, Gli (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #45

Cover Details - "J.C. Penney Variant"

Characters Wolverine; Captain America; Black Widow
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jim Lee
Inks Scott Williams
Notes [information taken from the STL Gallery and Roger Perez with permission from James Jobe]. Variant cover is a 1992 / 1993 J.C. Penney Marvel "Vintage Pack" reprint. All the issues in the J.C. Penney MVP set have common identifying characteristics. The most obvious is that all have a swinging Spider-Man in the UPC. There is also a blank under the issue number in the price box where the regular edition has the UK price. Secondly, the indicia clearly states Second Printing at the end. Lastly, they all have the same ads from 1992 and back cover which differ from the original printings. The back cover has an X-Men card ad with Wolverine bursting out of it.

23 page X-Men story "Madripoor Nights"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Wolverine; Psylocke; GUESTS: Captain America (flashback); Black Widow; Jubilee; Seraph (1st; flashback); Ivan Petrovitch (flashback); VILLAIN: Baron Strucker (flashback); Jonin (flashback); The Hand; CAMEOS: Matsuo Tsurayaba; Fenris [Andrea and Andreas Strucker]
Synopsis Story cuts between a 1941 battle between Wolvie and Cap trying to save a young Natasha Romanoff from the clutches of Baron Strucker and Present Day where Wolvie, Cap, Black Widow and Psylocke face off against Strucker's children.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Jim Lee
Inks Scott Williams
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Wolverine tells Captain America that he will have to decline making Cap his sidekick.
Reprinted in Wolverine: Origins (Marvel, 2006 series) #16 (October 2007); in Incredibili X-Men, Gli (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #45