Writer Chris Claremont
Artists Chris Wozniak & Al Milgrom
Letterer Tim Harkins
Colorist Brad Vancata
Chief Interrogator Tom DeFalco
Cover Dated May 1990
Issue opens with Nightcrawler being interrogated. No one believes that he could be from an alternate universe.
Crusader-X flies to the Xavier School. He flies into a female Archangel. Cable is investigating the damage along with various police officers. Crusader-X takes off his helmet, we see he has long black hair.
Rachel remembers her origins. She fought the Shadow King and Mojo, already, she is ready for another round.
Proper Marvel Universe. Kitty heads over to the Regent’s Park Zoo, where the four Warwolves are kept. She taunts them, and walks away. Their leader implies that they will regain two members soon.
A lady who looks like Kitty Pryde, in a green dress, walks outside. Some street thugs start harassing her because she is Crusader-X’s girlfriend. Lockheed shows up to save Kitty.
Look how great Wozniak’s Lockheed is!
Captain Britain balls up the thugs’ van. That must be awkward with it between his legs. Meggan keeps calling her, Kitty. Kitty corrects her, she is the Courtney Ross of this Earth. Which furthers the subplot of our Kitty and Courtney and why Courtney is so interested in Kitty. I’m not sure if that is ever resolved. I suppose we will find out.
Hellfire Club. Rachel is told Iron Man and Shadow King’s big plan. At the Queen’s birthday party, with all of the assembled world leaders, Iron Man is going to kill them all. Jean Grey is suppose to be the head of security. Rachel is going to fool people to believe she is her mother.
Over with Nightcrawler. He is hitting on Alistaire’s sister. On this Earth, he is the soldier and she is the scientist. Crusader-X finds Kurt and tries to attack him. Good thing Captain Britain shows up. They are essentially evenly paired.
Hampton Court, with the World Summit. Rachel successfully gets Iron Man into the building. It is empty, as Rachel warned everyone ahead of time. We get Iron Man vs Rachel. Once she hits him with a psychic attack, the armor takes over. Tony, weirdly, prerecorded a message, as he anticipated Shadow King turning on him.
Lockheed, Meggan and Courtney are watching the Braddock battle. Rachel summons them to help her. Meggan shows up, as Rachel passes out at her feet.
Lockheed gives a mega-roar, a move I didn’t give him on Pokemon but I could have. This gets the attention of the Braddocks. They see Iron Man has beaten Meggan, this doesn’t please them.
The police can’t hold Iron Man, as he only really hit two women, he didn’t try to kill any world leaders. The police will be keeping an eye on him.
Next issue, Alan Davis returns! He will do the final two parts of Cross Time Caper, and then a new creative team takes over. Apparently, we’ve already seen them, so it is probably this issue’s creative team.
Two letters this issue – Bob Schreub Jr. of New Jersey and Jacqueline Middleton of Australia.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 