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Issue Details

Issue #163
Published November 1982
Cover Price $0.60
Pages 36
Editing Danny Fingeroth (Assistant); Louise Jones

Cover Details

Characters Kitty Pryde; Brood
Genre superhero
Pencils Dave Cockrum
Inks Dave Cockrum
Reprinted In the Essential X-Men #4; in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #67

22 page X-Men story "Rescue Mission"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde; GUESTS: Carol Danvers [Ms. Marvel]; Corsair; Lilandra; Havok; Polaris; Moira MacTaggert; VILLAINS: Brood; Brood Queen
Synopsis The X-Men escape the Brood's clutches, but not before they are infected with hatchlings.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Dave Cockrum (loose blue pencils); Bob Wiacek (finished art)
Inks Bob Wiacek
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Dave Cockrum reports 2006 that "I did loose pencils in blue. Editor Ann Nocenti referred to them as 'shakedowns'. But everything was there."
Reprinted In the Essential X-Men #4; in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #67; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #50