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Issue Details

Issue #125
Published September 1979
Cover Price $0.35
Pages 36
Editing Roger Stern
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Cover Details - "The Dramatic Return of Phoenix!"

Characters Storm; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Colossus; Havok; Polaris; Multiple Man; Proteus
Genre superhero
Pencils Dave Cockrum (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #31; in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2

17 page X-Men story "There's Something Awful On Muir Island!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Beast; Moira MacTaggert; Lilandra; Havok; Polaris; Multiple Man; VILLAINS: Proteus; Magneto; Mastermind; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Iceman; Angel; CAMEOS: Magda Lehnsherr (Magneto's wife; on video); Popeye; Phantom Stranger (both snuck into a group panel of aliens on the Shi'ar homeworld)
Synopsis Moira tests Jean's Phoenix powers; Jean begins having hallucinations thanks to Mastermind; Moira discovers that Proteus has escaped; Beast finds out the X-Men are alive and lets them know that Moira needs their help on Muir Isle.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot); Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes This issue is the first to reveal Magneto as the father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Popeye and the Phantom Stranger appear in the background of page 16, panel 5, added by inker Terry Austin. A few characters from the Claremont/Byrne/Austin Starlord book appear in panel 6. These notes added 2005 by Steven Tice.
Reprinted in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #31; in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #11; in Marvel (Labor Comics, 1986 series) #2