The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #125 [Direct]

Volume: 1

Price: 0.40 USD

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1979-06-19

Editing: Roger Stern (editor); Jim Salicrup (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

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The Dramatic Return of Phoenix!

(Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 1 page

Pencils:	Dave Cockrum (signed as COCKRUM)
Inks:	Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors:	?
Letters:	Jim Novak

Genre:superhero

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

X-Men

Reprints (16)

in Phoenix Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021)

This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Publisher's Brand: Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Printer: ?
Barcode: 0714860246109

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #169.

[no title indexed]

(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 1)

Sales Leadership Club / advertisement / 1 page

There's Something Awful on Muir Island!

(Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 17 pages

Script:	Chris Claremont (plot, script)
Pencils:	John Byrne
Inks:	Terry Austin
Colors:	Glynis Oliver
Letters:	Tom Orzechowski (credited as Orzechowski)

Genre:superhero
Job Number:LG490

First Line of Dialogue or Text:Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Jean Grey--a mutant telepath/telekinetic, and one of the founding members of the uncanny X-Men.

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

X-Men

Banshee [Sean Cassidy]
(featured)
Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
(featured)
Cyclops [Scott Summers]
(flashback) (featured)
Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]
(featured)
Phoenix [Jean Grey]
(flashback) (supporting)
Professor X [Charles Xavier]
(flashback) (featured)
Storm [Ororo Munroe]
(flashback) (featured)
Wolverine [Logan]
(flashback) (featured)

Angel [Warren Worthington III]
(on screen)
Araki
Beast [Hank McCoy]
(supporting)
Havok [Alex Summers]
(supporting)
Iceman [Bobby Drake]
Magda Lehnsherr
(Magneto's wife; on screen)
Moira MacTaggert
(supporting)
Angus MacWhirter
(antagonist) (possessed by the Mutant X)
Magneto [Max Eisenhardt]
(flashback) (antagonist)
Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
(on screen)
Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde]
Multiple Man [Jamie Madrox]
(supporting)
Lilandra Neramani
(supporting)
Polaris [Lorna Dane]
(supporting)
Proteus [Kevin MacTaggert]

Maelen; Popeye; Phantom Stranger (both snuck into a group panel of aliens on the Shi'ar homeworld); Pierson's Puppeteer

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.; in Spécial Strange (Editions Lug, 1975 series) #26 (10 décembre 1981)
in Rampage Monthly (Marvel UK, 1978 series) #43 (January 1982) [reprint in black & white]
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #20 (Fevereiro de 1984) [Do original, da história, da página 3, a última vinheta foi usada para uma só página.]
in X:en (Semic, 1984 series) #2/1985 ([februari] 1985)
in Prosjekt X (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1985 (uke 11 1985) [minus page 7]
in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #7 (1986)
in Marvel (Labor Comics, 1986 series) #2 (Luglio 1986)
in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #31 (March 1989)
which is reprinted
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #97 (Febrero 22 de 1990)
in X-Men Saga (Semic S.A., 1990 series) #12 (avril 1993)
in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (August 1997) [black and white]
in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #11 (Agosto 1997)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004)
in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
in X-Men: Proteus (Marvel, 2009 series) (2009)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4 (2012)
in Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - Días del Futuro Pasado
in X-Men Classic (Panini France, 2012 series) #4 (décembre 2012)
in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
in Phoenix Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021)
in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #39 - Foudre cosmique (mars 2022)

Indexer Notes

Page 7, panels 3-6: Magda Eisenhardt’s character is briefly mentioned for the first time as Magneto’s late wife. This information, together with that published in August 1979 a month earlier, pages 2-3 in The Avengers #186, infers that Magneto is, in fact, the natural father of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, alias the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

Page 11, panels 5-6: Various characters cameo appearances pop out in Lilandra’s ball scene. Notably, Dirac, Shakati and his two minions, Arak and Arion (Marvel Preview #11, June 1977). More surprisingly, the outlines of Popeye the Sailor Man (panel 5, right side) and the Phantom Stranger (panel 5, left) appear as Easter eggs. To note: the Phantom Stranger is a DC character.

A famous quote from William Shakespeare inspires this episode’s title: "There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark" (Hamlet. Act 1, scene 4). From this issue to X-Men #128, authors will refer titles to some famous Shakespeare’s quotes.