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Issue Details

Issue #114
Published October 1978
Cover Price $0.35
Pages 36
Editing Roger Stern

Cover Details - "The Day the X-Men Died!"

Characters Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; Beast
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Dan Crespi
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #21; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1

17 page X-Men story "Desolation"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Beast; Lilandra; Nereel (1st); Fall People; VILLAIN: Karl Lykos [also as Sauron]; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Christopher Summers [Corsair]; Alex Summers [Havok]; Kate Summers
Synopsis Beast and Jean are rescued from Antarctica but have to tell Xavier that the X-Men are dead; The very alive remaining X-Men make their way to the Savage Land where they relax a little with the Fall People; Lykos siphons Storm's power to once again become Sauron.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot), Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Jean Simek
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #20; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (1990); in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #1; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #7