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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published 1980
Cover Price 0.75
Pages 52
Editing Louise Jones
Notes Features a page of letters devoted to the Dark Phoenix saga.

Cover Details

Characters Doctor Strange; Wolverine; Storm; Colossus; Professor X; Kitty Pryde
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita, Jr.
Inks Bob McLeod
Letters Dan Crespi
Notes Features a page of letters devoted to the Dark Phoenix saga.
Reprinted in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #3

35 page X-Men story "Nightcrawler's Inferno"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler (Origin); Kitty Pryde (Joins); GUESTS: Dr. Strange; Stefan Szardos (1st and death in flashback); Jimaine Szardos [Amanda Sefton]; VILLAIN: Margali Szardos (1st); CAMEOS: Charon; Minos; Harpies; Cerberus
Synopsis Full origin of Nightcrawler; The X-Men and Doc Strange try to rescue Kurt from his foster mother's hell; Amanda Sefton is Kurt's long lost love Jimaine.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils John Romita, Jr.
Inks Bob McLeod
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes References to Dante's INFERNO; Story depicts events leading directly to Nightcrawler's 1st app. in Giant-Size X-Men #1; Published between X-Men #138 and 139.
Reprinted in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #3