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.