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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published March 1997
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 4.20 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Bob Harras; Mark Powers; Jason Liebig (Assistant)

Cover Details - "Suffer the Children"

Characters Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; Husk [Paige Guthrie]; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Synch [Everett Thomas]; M; Chamber [Jonothon Starsmore]; Skin [Angelo Espinosa]
Genre superhero
Pencils Chris Bachalo (signed)
Inks Al Vey (signed)
Colors Liquid! (signed)
Letters Typeset
Notes Wraparound cover

4 page Generation X story "Chapter One: The End"

Characters Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; Mondo; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis Banshee is attacked by a monstrous version of Mondo who is under the control of Black Tom Cassidy.
Genre superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

4 page Generation X story "Chapter Two: Behind the Eight Ball"

Characters White Queen [Emma Frost]; Bumpkin; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis Emma returns to Xavier's school to find the whole place filled with mutated plants and is confronted by Black Tom who tells her that he has taken over the school.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

3 page Generation X story "Chapter Three: Cutting to the Chase"

Characters Jubilee [Jubilation Lee]; Mondo; Bastion
Synopsis Jubilee is fleeing from Mondo when she runs into Bastion who rescues her before he captures her.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

5 page Generation X story "Chapter Four: Putting Out the Fire"

Characters Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler; Franklin Richards; Leech; Artie Maddox; Tana Nile; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis In the Danger Grotto, Howard the Duck tries to save Artie, Leech and Franklin by setting fire to Black Tom's wooden form.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

4 page Generation X story "Chapter Five: The Great Escape"

Characters Howard the Duck; Beverly Switzler; Franklin Richards; Leech; Artie Maddox; Tana Nile; Man-Thing
Synopsis Man-Thing arrives and whisks Howard and the kids out of Black Tom's clutches.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Notes This portion of the story is continued in Daydreamers (Marvel, 1997 series) #1
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

2 page Generation X story "Chapter Six: Point Of No Return"

Characters Penance; Gateway
Synopsis Penance watches as Gateway teleports away from the Generation X kids for good.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

2 page Bullpen Bulletins promo (ad from the publisher) "Bullpen Bulletins [January 15, 1997]"

Letters typeset
Notes Spotlight on Excalibur #106 and Daredevil/Batman. Checklist for Marvel comics shipping the week of January 15, 1997.

5 page Generation X story "Chapter Seven: Enemy Mine"

Characters Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Penance; Gateway; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis Black Tom has Banshee all wrapped up and presents him with the dying Gen X kids caught in his wooden tendrils; He tells Sean that if he wants to save the kids, he has to kill Emma Frost.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

3 page Generation X story "Chapter Eight: Duel"

Characters Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Penance; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis Banshee refuses to duel Emma for the lives of the kids but Emma, afraid of losing another team like she did with the Hellions, mentally forces him to cut her down.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

4 page Generation X story "Chapter Nine: Splitting Heirs"

Characters Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Penance; Black Tom Cassidy
Synopsis With Emma fallen, Black Tom gleefully reveals that the Gen X kids he is holding in thrall are all constructs of his wooden form; The real team is far away; Penance attacks and slices Black Tom in half.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

2 page Generation X story "Epilogue: On Land Or Sea Or Foam..."

Characters M; Skin [Angelo Espinosa]; Husk [Paige Guthrie]; Synch [Everett Thomas]; Chamber [Jonothon Starsmore]
Synopsis With Black Tom gone, the pod in which he has trapped the real Gen X kids rises to the surface of the ocean and bursts, leaving them alive but marooned at sea.
Genre Superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Al Vey; Scott Hanna
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #29

1 page Great X-Pectations letters page "Great X-Pectations"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters from readers - Sally Cutler and Ryan Deringer.

3 page Ka-Zar promo (ad from the publisher) "Born to be Wild?"

Characters Ka-Zar; Shanna; Zabu
Genre Jungle
Script Rob Piotrowski
Pencils Andy Kubert
Inks Jesse Delperdang
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for the new Ka-Zar series.

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Notes This sequence is for the "back cover" of a wraparound cover and needs to be deleted.