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Issue Details

Issue #135
Published July 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jim Salicrup

Cover Details - "Defeated by Dark Phoenix!"

Characters Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Dark Phoenix
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont. Cover is an homage to the cover of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #56
Reprinted in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

17 page X-Men story "Dark Phoenix"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Beast; Senator Robert Kelly; Angel; Banshee; Moira MacTaggert; Lilandra; Shi'ar; VILLAINS: Dark Phoenix [1st; Jean Grey]; Sebastian Shaw; Harry Leland; CAMEOS: Spider-Man; Dr. Strange; Mr. Fantastic; The Thing; Silver Surfer; Peter Corbeau
Synopsis Jean goes nuts as Dark Phoenix, beats up on her former teammates and heads for outer space to destroy a star system while the X-Men are left wondering how to handle their crazy comrade.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot); Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Reprinted in Uncanny X-Men, The (Marvel, 1984 series) #nn; in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #41 (December 1989); in X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 1991 series) #nn; in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (1997); in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #15 [part 1]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #16 [part 2]; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]