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Head Writers / Coordinators Stuart Vandal & Al Sjoerdsma
Writers Chris Buchner, Ronald Byrd, Michael Hoskin, Daron Jensen, Eric J. Moreels, Robert J. Sodaro & Jeph York
Cover Dated 2009
This issue covers Spider-Man, Iron Man and X-Men.
Amazing Spider-Man issues 103 (December 1971) through 146 (July 1975) with various Giant Size issues and Annuals thrown in.
Each issue contains – Issue Number, Release month and year, Title, Page Length, Credits, Feature Character, Supporting Characters, Villains, Other Characters, Locations / Items, Synopsis and Note. The characters have Last Seen and Next Seen in their descriptions, which is pretty handy.
Iron Man issues 15 (July 1969) through 65 (December 1973)
Now the reason why I bought this issue :
X-Men 109 (February 1978) through Uncanny X-Men 150 (October 1981)
Here is Issue 129 –
X-Men 129 (January 1980)
“God Spares The Child . . .” (17 Pages)
CREDITS : Chris Claremont (writer, co-plot), John Byrne (pencils, co-plot), Terry Austin (inks), Tom Orzechowski (letters), Bob Sharen (colors), Roger Stern (editor)
Feature Characters : Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus (prev 3 chr next in SSo #7, ’93 fb), Nightcrawler, Storm (also in CX #20/2, ’88), Banshee (leaves X-Men,next in CX #36/2, ’89 then in X # 133, ’80), Phoenix, Professor X (chr next in SSol #7, ’93 fb) (prev 2 rejoin X-Men)
Guest Stars : Havok, Polaris (both next in UXM #145, ’81), Multiple Man (next bts in CoC #1, ’82), Katherine “Kitty” Pryde (mutant phaser, 1st, also in CX #35/2, ’89), Dazzler (Alison Blaire, bts, chr last in Daz #1, ’81 fb)
Supporting Character : Moira MacTaggert (next in CX #36/2, ’89)
Villains : Hellfire Club Inner Circle : Black King (Sebastian Shaw, mutant kinetic energy absorber, 1st but last in MSH #11/3, ’92), White Queen (Emma Frost, mutant telepath, 1st but chr last in XMU #6, ’05 fb), White Bishop (Donald Pierce, cyborg, unidentified), Black Bishop (Harry Leland, mutant mass enhancer, unidentified, next in X #132, ’80) (prev 2 1st in shadows but last in MSH #11/3, ’92); Mastermind (also in CX #34/2, ’89), various Hellfire Club mercenaries (Cutler indentified, 1st, 3 die)
Other Characters : Carmen & Theresa “Terri” Pryde (Kitty’s parents, 1st, but Carmen chr last in Ex #14, ’05 fb; both next in X #131, ’80), unidentified Hellfire Club waitress.
Locations / Items : Muir Island Research Centre, X-Mansion inc Danger Room & Cerebro, Hellfire Club’s New York headquarters; Pryde home, Deerfield, Chicago, Illnois; Malt Shoppe, Deerfield; Frost Enterprises complex, Chicago (bts) (prev 4 1st); X-Men’s Blackbird, Hellfire Club corporate jet & hovercraft (prev 2 1st), Mindtrip Mechanism (bts)
Synopsis : The X-Men fly back to the States, leaving Banshee behind on Muir Island. Also crossing the Atlantic in a corporate jet, Jason Wyngarde projects another 18th century timeslip illusion into Phoenix’s mind, of her sailing with him as her husband to the Americas. She is awakened from the illusion by Scott, who tells her that he loves her. Arriving at the Mansion, the X-Men find Prof. X has returned from space, but he and Scott soon disagree over team training. Cerebro detects two new mutants, an Xavier splits the team to contact them, unaware they are being observed by Wyngarde and his allies, the Hellfire Club. The Club’s White Queen, Emma Frost, approaches the parents of the Chicago mutant, teenager Kitty Pryde, to convince them to enlist the girl in he Massachusetts Academy, shortly before Xavier arrives with Peter, Ororo and Wolverine. The latter three take Kitty to a Malt Shoppe while Xavier talks to Kitty’s parents, but they are attacked and captured by Frost and her agents; Kitty escapes thanks to her newly discovered power to phase through solid matter. As the White Queen leaves with her prisoners, Kitty sneaks on board her ship.
Note : Kitty Pryde is stated to be 13 1/2 this issue. Sebastian Shaw is revealed to be Warhawk’s “master” from X #110, ’78 this issue & his 1st name is revealed next issue. Pierce & Leland’s names are revealed in X #132, ’80 & their titles as wella s Shaw’s are revealed in OHMU #5, ’83. Xavier’s memories in Ex #14, ’05 reveal Carmen Pryde served in the army alongside both Wolverine and Xavier; Wolverine’s lack of recognition for Carmen is due to amnesia, while Carmen’s failure to recognize either man is presumably due to Xavier’s interfering with Carmen’s memories back during their service together. Xavier presumably recognizes Carmen here, but simply pretends not to.
Here is what the abbreviations stand for :
SSol – Super Soldiers
CX – Classic X-Men
X -X-Men
UXM – Uncanny X-Men
CoC – Contest of Champions
Daz – Dazzler
MSH -Marvel Super-Heroes
XMU – X-Men Unlimited
Ex – Excalibur
OHMU – Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
I had to look it up, Super Soldiers was an eight issue limited series in 1993. It was a Marvel UK title.
It dons on me that I mostly write about things I want instead of what I own. Probably because there is a slight sense of bragging about it but if you would forgive this, I’m going to start writing about things that I own. Try to balance things
Of this set, I only own the Kitty Pryde toy.
Her hair falls off way to easily!
So I bought this through Mile High Comics for Christmas and my copy didn’t come with the cover page. So I don’t know much about the credits so I don’t want to credit anyone incorrectly.
I’m going with comicbookdb’s credit page – though I’m not sure if the artist credited did Shadowcat’s profile.
Writers Mark Gruenwald, Glenn Herdling, Len Kaminski and Jamie Tost
Penciler Keith Pollard
Inker Joe Rubinstein
Colorist Andy Yanchus
Letterer Dwight Cove
Cover Dated March 1991
I really like the concept of this series, that all of the pages are three hole punched so that they can be collected in a binder.
There is a Mister Jip profile! Who I know from All New Ultimates, pretty good Ultimatization.
So I own this for the Shadowcat profile.
Known confidants : Storm, Illyana Rasputin, Lockheed, Phoebe Huntsman, Courtney Ross
Major enemies : White Queen, Ogun, Shadow King – which really? Shadow King? Does she even have one story involving him? I guess I haven’t come across it yet.
Bibliography
First Appearance : X-Men 129
Origin Issue : X-Men 129
Significant Issues :
X-Men 129 (X-Men and White Queen both attempted to recruit her for their respective schools)
X-Men 130 (first met Cyclops, Phoenix, Nightcrawler)
X-Men 131 (helped rescue X-Men from Hellfire Club)
X-Men 138 (joined X-Men)
X-Men 139 (assumed costumed identity of Sprite)
X-Men 141 – 142 (Kitty’s adult self from an alternate future took possession of her body in the present to help X-Men thwart assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants)
X-Men 143 (singlehandedly defeated N’Garai demon)
X-Men 151 – 152 (briefly attended White Queen’s Massachusetts Academy)
X-Men 166 (first met alien dragon Lockheed on another planet)
X-Men 168 (reunited with Lockheed on Earth)
X-Men 177 – 179 (abducted by Morlocks, nearly forced to wed Caliban)
New Mutants 15 – 17 (abducted by White Queen, rescued by New Mutants)
X-Men 183 (ended romantic relationship with Colossus)
Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 1 – 6 (brainwashed by Ogun into becoming ninja assassin, sent to attack Wolverine, assumed new costumed identity of Shadowcat)
X-Men 211 (injured by Harpoon’s energy spear in massacre of the Morlocks, could not regain solidity)
Fantastic Four v X-Men 1 -4 (cured by efforts of Doctor Doom and Mister Fantastic, but can now only maintain solidity through an act of conscious will)
Excalibur Special Edition 1 (became founding member of Excalibur)
Excalibur 33 (began studies at St. Searle’s school for girls in Britain)
Was this the first series of handbooks that included, Significant Issues?
I guess Excalibur 33 was the latest issue to come out.
Kitty is only referenced by the Significant Issue :
Kitty and Wolverine 1 – 6 (battled and killed Ogun, his former mentor)
Other big name characters are – Baron Zemo, Madame Web and Puppet Master.
Uncanny X-Men 141 – John Byrne
Alpha Flight V3 9 – Clayton Henry
Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness 1 – Arthur Suydam
Excalibur 94 – Casey Jones
Wolverine and the X-Men 42 – Nick Bradshaw
X-Men Battle of the Atom 1 Variant – ???
Uncanny Avengers 4 (Interior Art) – John Cassaday
Nightwing V2 21 – Brett Booth
NTSF : SD : SUV :: The Comic Book – Tom Derenick and Blond
Uncanny X-Men Volume Three Issue 23 Minimates Variant – Barry Bradfield
Amazing X-Men 13 Groot & Rocket Variant – Sara Pichelli
Bloodshot 12 – Kalman Andrasofszky, Patrick Zircher and Matthew Waite
Superboy V4 27 – Tom Grummett & Karl Kesel
Secret Wars Journal 5 (Interior Art) – Ken Lashley
Years of Future Past 5 – Art Adams and Peter Steigerwald
Star Lord and Kitty Pryde (Interior Art) – Alti Firmansyah
Written by Paul Scheer, Jon Stern & Curtis Gwinn
Art by Tom Derenick
Colors by Blond
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Tom Derenick and Blond
Cover Dated July 2012
This comic is based on the very excellent show, NTSF : SD : SUV :: which aired on Adult Swim.
Here is the first and last episodes :
First Episode Preview : One Cabeza, Two Cabeza, Three Cabeza . . . Dead!
Final Episode : Wreck the Malls
Thanks to YouTuber AdultSwimEps for hosting these videos. Because of its content, you have to sign in, which I hate, as I can never remember my Google password.
This and Childrens Hospital made for an incredible thirty minute block of entertainment.
If you want more information, here is the Wikipedia page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSF:SD:SUV::
Martin Starr AND Karen Gillan, sign me up! And they did! Plus, Kate Mulgrew!
I wasn’t much of a Paul Scheer fan prior to this show, that he created but I have since become a fan.
Onto the issue :
Ten Miles off the Coast of San Diego and 500 Feet below the Surface. The Greek god, Poseidon is woken up when the President of the Navy, steals his pitchfork – he has a pitchfork collection.
I like how they recreate the show’s title sequence in eight panels, that’s pretty cool.
Meanwhile, at NTSF : SD : SUF ::… Someone wonders how the Greek gods could be in San Diego. Kove explains that the Greek gods were the first terrorists. 3,000 years ago, NTSF : Athens :: Chariot :: defeated the gods and buried them in the San Diego ocean as statues as they are not really from Greece, it was a cover up. Kove commands the team gets together and meet her at the NTSF Heli-SUV.
Deep in the Alaskan Wilderness. Alphonse is recreating the scene from Edward Norton’s Incredible Hulk, citing that it has been 65 days since he has had an accident, of his spirit animal coming out.
The Louvre – Paris – Night. Piper is fighting to prevent a guy called, Skull, from – once again – re-animating Hitler and starting World War III.
Burj Khalifa – Dubai – The World’s Tallest Building. Trent, the leader and played by creator Paul Scheer – is retired (yet again) and is now a simple window washer.
Five minutes later. The team is assembled. The five attacking Greek gods are certain locations – Medusa (Wonder World), Prometheus (San Diego Stadium), Cyclops (Gaslamp District), Athena (La Jolla), Hades (San Diego Trolley) and Poseidon (off the coast of San Diego). The team wants to prevent San Diego from becoming a second rate Los Angeles. Each team member is going to a specific location, via the tele-transportationing room. The blonde (I’m not sure who this is suppose to be) wonders why they all of a sudden have all of these fancy pieces of equipment. Almost as if they have an unlimited budget, the benefits of a comic book over a 15 minute show on Adult Swim.
Wonder World. The blonde is wearing glasses that will reverse Medusa’s stone-turning abilities. Instead, she is so unattractive that Medusa willingly turns herself into stone. Looking at the Wikipedia page, is this character is probably the one Rebecca Romijn played?
The Underworld. Hades has took the San Diego Trolley and forcing the last top to be Hell. Alphonse is taking him on, and lets out his spirit animal – The Vole. He is able to throw Cerebrus and Hades into a giant lake of fire.
The Bitley’s. Sam is about to take on Cyclops and he wins by throwing darts into his sole eye.
Scripp’s Park, La Jolla. Athena is confronted by Piper, she tries to come up with a snappy one-liner but instead, just opens fire and takes out Athena.
San Diego Stadium. Trent and Prometheus go at it, he throws a baseball bomb and blows up the fire stealer.
Somewhere near the San Diego Convention Center. This location made me think that this was a San Diego Comic Con exclusive but I’m not sure if it is. The Heli-SUV dumps oil into the ocean and that makes Poseidon turn away. Issue ends with him opening up a portal in the sky and aliens come out – so this is clearly after the Avengers film was released.
Pretty fun issue
So this action figure came out in 2006, and was a Wal-Mart Exclusive. I must have drove my wife crazy with my hunt for this and the day I finally found it, was amazing!
It came with the Giant Man torso and head, of course, I didn’t need all of that.
The Lockheed it comes with is pretty cool
Also a copy of Astonishing X-Men 4 but with the cover to issue 6 which is confusing!
Writers Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Pencils David Lopez
Inks Alvaro Lopez
Colorist Val Staples
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Dated April 2012
The copy that I bought is in Very Good condition, which usually, I never notice anything different (besides it looks a tad lighter or something) but this comic’s cover has this black partial line going down the left side, like an inch from the spin. I can’t tell what it is from.
Inside front cover ad is for Round One of AvX.
This issue opens with Magma getting ready for her date with Mephisto. She has to go on a date with the Devil as he allowed the team to leave Hell during the Fear Itself tie-in arc. Dani really doesn’t want her to go on this date. Dani wants to call Hela, or Cyclops & Beast who can call Doctor Strange or Ghost Rider. The deal was that Magma had to go on one date, so she isn’t that worried.
Sunspot is talking to X-Man about his reasons why Magma shouldn’t go on the date. I sort of love this page, as it really puts Spider-Man’s willingness to make a deal with Mephisto. Mephisto is the Devil Incarnate. The Devil. The Metaphysical Embodiment of the Source of All Evil in the World.
X-Man knows what is up, Sunspot doesn’t like the idea of anyone dating Magma who isn’t him.
Legendary comic book creator, Joe Simon died around this time. 1913 – 2011. Thanks for Captain America!
Mephisto is at the door, he is dressed very well and is ready to treat her like a gentleman. Doug warns her to really pay attention to everything he says and what she says, to look for double meanings and such. Mephisto just wants to have a nice date. Mephisto arrived in a very fancy looking sports car. His other car is a phaeton made of adulterer’s hearts pulled by horses from the abattoir of all pestilence. This is the guy Spider-Man ran to to save his elderly aunt and sacrificed his marriage for.
Five minutes later. Mephisto has taken Magma to hell, the third circle of Hell, to be precise – which is Gluttony, it overlooks the Bay of Agony. DnL sure did their homework on Hell for this issue.
It dons on me now that Mephisto is dressed as a hipster, that makes sense.
Mephisto has arranged for Mounts Etna and Krakatoa to put on a show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna
Krakatoa is the big name of the two, I had to look them both up. Krakatoa seems pretty intense and I need to watch one of those documentaries.
Mephisto asks the band to start playing, Magma recognizes the keyboardist (though he is playing a piano, so I don’t know) but I’m not sure who anyone is suppose to be. I couldn’t find any websites that took a guess.
Magma wants the date to be over as this isn’t a real date. Mephisto asks her to chill, which is pretty funny. Magma is doing far too much thinking on this date.
1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. Warlock is trying to get his Hel puppy to stay quiet, as the dog is there secretly. Warlock got the Hel-hound during Journey into Mystery 632, thanks Seabass! I miss editor notes.
Dani is trying to call Illyana, she is the master of Limbo so she should be able to watch out for Magma. Doug is trying to contact Doctor Strange.
Mephisto is trying to savage the date. Mephisto tries to tell her that he is a good guy. People come to him due to their own life decisions, he isn’t out there tempting people.
Magma tells him where he went wrong, he went too big. She wanted to be impressed not stunned into submission. She has an idea, she takes him to the restaurant where she tried to get a job at. Mephisto explains how he wants people to live as long as possible, so that they can keep making decisions in life. Heaven favors those who die young and accidentally or impulsively, they were living and not thinking.
The restaurant’s chipotle is way to hot for him, that’s pretty funny.
There is an ad for AvX with Daredevil fighting Archangel. Get it? Pretty clever
Mephisto walks Magma home, and treats her like a complete gentleman. She kisses him on the cheek and goes inside. The team greets her and are glad that she is okay, Dani wants all of the details come morning.
Issue ends with Mephisto throwing pebbles at Magma’s window. He wants to know if he can ask her out again, and she doesn’t know if he can, which is a pretty sweet moment.
This was a pretty fun issue.
I keep having this thought and I just need to jot it down and get it out of my head. I keep thinking about Kitty Pryde being a product of a divorce. I also keep thinking about Kitty Pryde’s creation.
As we all know John Byrne created, for the most part, Kitty Pryde. Then Claremont either scaled back some decisions or fleshed out ideas.
So which one is the mother of Kitty Pryde?
I’ve also been trying to take more credit in the ‘creation’ of my son with my wife. Which is really where all of this comes from.
Without my involvement, the boy isn’t born. There I said it. Now, I fully understand that she did all of the extremely hard work and sacrifice that came after me doing my tiny portion. Tiny but super important, least we forget.
So here’s the thing. Did John Byrne give the concept to Claremont to nurture and then left; abandoning Claremont after a year or so to raise Kitty all by himself (and of course with the help of other artists such as Cockrum, Smith and Romita Jr.).
Thus, Byrne’s seed to Claremont’s egg – making Byrne the dead beat father in this scenario. Which he might be, as he never really came back to the character.
Or did Byrne do all of the hard work and Claremont did the quick job of approving the majority of the character and then got the opportunity to raise her as he would have intended. Thus, he is the father that stuck around after the mother … I don’t know, this side of the scenario I clearly haven’t given as much thought as the first one. Let’s say the mother died, somehow, but not horribly tragic (sure?) and Claremont had to raise Kitty the best he could.
Ooof, I was hoping to make one a positive for Claremont and one positive for Byrne but Byrne not coming back hurts him as Claremont has come back for Kitty on several different occasions – Excalibur (where he never really left her, just moved her from X-Men to England) then came back for Mekanix, X-Men 100, his brief return to the Wolverine title, portions of X-Treme X-Men and X-Men Forever.
Also, both of them are pretty father centric, but I suppose that’s just my world view at this time.
If I thought about it more, I should figure out a way to work Terry Austin into the mix.
http://secretsbehindthexmen.blogspot.com/2012/03/kitty-pryde-and-substitute-x-men.html
This must be the article I read that has been bouncing around in my head.
So Byrne came up with the name, her age, her appearance, the concept that she should be young and a student. Claremont changed her original power so that she was the one who phased as well as making her a genius.
I don’t believe that changes anything I originally thought, I think my super awkward metaphor still exists.
I’m more leaning towards Byrne is the father of Kitty Pryde and Claremont is the mother as that seems like how babies are actually made and the other scenario doesn’t quite work for me.
I own this :
and it came with Lockheed!
Look how cute they look! I wish they would make more of these with Kitty!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 