Classic X-Men #7 "Deathstar, Rising!" #8 "Greater Love Hath No X-Man..." #9 "Like a Phoenix from the Ashes" Arc: Phoenix Saga

"¡ LA ESTRELLA DE LA MUERTE! "

(APARECIDO ORIGINALMENTE EN X-MEN #99)

Continued from last issue... 

Having attempted an escape only to find themselves in space, Banshee, Wolverine, and Jean Grey are rescued by Sentinels under orders to keep them alive. They are contained in environmental bubbles and brought back aboard the Project: Armageddon space station where Stephen Lang tells them that escape is impossible. On Earth, Cyclops uses Cerebro to try and track the missing X-Men, finding no trace of them on Earth, confirming Peter Corbeau's theory that the Sentinels that captured them had ventured into space. On an evening of increased anti-mutant hysteria, which included riots and the fire-bombing of a pro-mutant judge, Peter Corbeau uses his connections with NASA to launch a Starcore shuttle into space, under the pretense of examining the coming solar storm, but in reality it is a cover so the X-Men can go on a rescue mission of their comrades in space. 

Aboard the space ship not all of the X-Men are comfortable with their situation; Storm struggles with her claustrophobia and Colossus loses his cool, changing into his metallic form, destroying his space suit while shouting out the name of his brother Mikhail. He explains to Nightcrawler that his brother was a Russian Cosmonaut who was seemingly destroyed when his space ship exploded. Cyclops is also worried about Jean's safety after the two of them are finally becoming romantically involved after so many years of repressing their feelings. As the space shuttle piloted by Peter Corbeau blasts off into space, a solar flare is detected at the Sun monitoring satellite known as Starcore One, with a direct course for Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth in the village of Dal'Room, Ireland, a solicitor named Flaherty rushes to the post office with an important letter for Sean Cassidy that needs to be rushed out to the United States right away. As he goes back out into the storm, he is confronted by a man who is Sean's cousin. When this man learns that he is too late to stop the warning to be mailed out to Sean, his cousin blasts him with an energy bolt from his cane, killing Flaherty. 

While in Earth orbit, the space shuttle approaches the space station that is operated by Project: Armageddon. Detecting the X-Men's approach, Stephen Lang sends out his Sentinels to destroy the shuttle. Their initial attack ruptures the hull of the ship, sucking Storm out into space. With Colossus at risk of suffocating, they ram the shuttle through the hull of the satellite so that they can board the station. Storm meanwhile is alone against a group of Sentinels and finds that she can control solar winds and cosmic energy in space, and uses these powers to defend herself against her robotic attackers. While inside the spaceship, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Cyclops manage to hold their own against the Sentinels that have come to stop them. Colossus is particularly savage in battle, believing that Storm was killed. However, when they finish destroying the Sentinels, Storm arrives alive and well, much to the Russian mutant’s joy. Cyclops is contacted via telepathically by Jean who tells him that Wolverine and Banshee are being held in the cell block while she and the Professor are being held in the main mission. Wanting to save Jean on his own, Cyclops orders the other X-Men to go and rescue Banshee and Wolverine. 

Blasting his way to the main mission of the satellite, Cyclops easily overpowers Stephen Lang and is about to beat him to death until Jean stops him. Before Cyclops can act any further, someone strikes him from behind. As Lang drags Cyclops away, Jean turns around and is shocked by who she sees. Moments later, the other X-Men arrive in the main mission they are confronted by what appears to be the original X-Men: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, and Iceman all led by Professor X who demands the original X-Men to kill the new team. 

This story is continued next issue....

TITULO: Classic X-Men #7
FECHA: Marzo / 1987 
PORTADA: Arthur Adams (lapices), P. Craig Russell (tinta) 
PERSONAJES: 
Featured Characters: X-Men: Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Professor X

Supporting Characters: Jean Grey, Amanda Sefton (First appearance), Betsy Wilford (First appearance), Moira MacTaggert, Dr. Peter Corbeau
Villains: Sentinels Mk III (First full appearance): Sentinel, Sentinel A3 (Destroyed), Sentinel A7 (Destroyed), Sentinel T-20, Stephen Lang
Other Characters: Stan Lee (Cameo), Jack Kirby (Cameo), Chris Claremont (Cameo), Dave Cockrum (Cameo), Julius Schwartz (Cameo), Bonnie Wilford (Cameo), Doctor Doom (seen ice skating on page one) (Cameo), Nick Fury (Cameo), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Cameo), Matt Murdock (Cameo), Clark Kent and Lois Lane, Unnamed New Yorkers
Locations: United States of America: New York: New York City: Rockefeller Center, Westchester County, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Bahamas: Sentinel Space Station, refitted from a S.H.I.E.L.D. space platform
Items: Cyclops' Visor, version 2, Image Inducer, Cerebro
Vehicles: Peter Corbeau's boat, the Dejah Thoris (Destroyed), Project Armageddon's orbiting platform 
ESCRITOR: Chris Claremont 
DIBUJO: Dave Cockrum, Jim Sherman
TINTA: Frank Chiaramonte, Joe Rubinstein
COLOR: Michele Wrightson
EDITORIAL: Marvel Comics 
GENERO: Superheroes 
PAGINAS: 36 
FORMATO: .cbr 
TAMAÑO: 12.9 mb

" NO HAY MAYOR AMOR... "

(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO EN X-MEN #100)

Continued from last issue... 

Aboard the space station run by the anti-mutant Project: Armageddon, it's leader Stephen Lang seemingly has control of the original X-Men (Cyclops, Angel, Iceman, Beast, Marvel Girl, Havok, Polaris and Professor X) and has ordered them to kill the new team (Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Banshee). As the battle rages on, the new team of X-Men find some interesting inconsistencies from those that they are fighting: The original team seemingly has no memory of their replacements, the Beast isn't covered in blue fur and Cyclops is wearing his old visor. 

As they fight on the defensive, Wolverine decides to take the battle to Professor X and is caught off guard when the Professor stands on two legs and knocks Wolverine out in one punch. Marvel Girl uses her telepathic powers one Wolverine, and Wolverine finally realizes that they have been distracting him from using his enhanced senses. Relying on only those, Wolverine strikes at Marvel Girl, revealing that she is not the real Jean Grey at all, but a robot.

This angers Lang, as he had created his army of X-Sentinels to be unbeatable duplicates of the original X-Men to exterminate other mutants. Lang explains to the captured Cyclops, Professor X, Jean Grey, and Peter Corbeau how he was a member of a government project organized to determine the cause of mutants.

Having developed a hatred for mutants, he would the Sentinel base once owned by Larry Trask and go over the notes there to build his own Sentinels. Making a deal with a clandestine organization calling themselves the Council of the Chosen, Lang was given the funded he needed to begin Project: Armageddon to devise a means of eliminating mutants. While Lang has been ranting, Cyclops uses the opportunity to blast through his confinement with his optic blast and then free the others. 

As the X-Men in the other room destroy the Sentinel dopplegangers of the original team, Cyclops attempts to knock out Lang. Lang manages to flee to his gunship and attempts to kill Cyclops, however Jean uses her telekinesis to mess with the controls and forces Lang's gunship to crash into a view screen and explode, seemingly killing Lang in the process. With the space station compromised and about to blow, the X-Men find themselves stranded on the space station now that Lang's minions have escaped in all the escape pods. Going back to their ship, they find that the autopilot has been damaged, making it impossible to fly the ship through the solar flare passing through Earth's atmosphere without someone to pilot the ship. Corbeau points out that whoever pilots the ship would be flash fried by the radiation. 

However, Jean steps up and offers to fly the ship -- pulling Corbeau's flying skills from his mind and believing that her telekinetic shield could protect her from the radiation. When Scott tries to protest she uses her powers to knock him out and orders the other X-Men and Corbeau into the radiation shielded room. Even Wolverine and Storm fail to talk Jean out of sacrificing herself for them, but to no avail. 

Sealing the hole in the ship with a telekinetic shield, Jean begins to pilot the ship back through Earth. In the shielded room, Cyclops revives and tries to break free, forcing the other X-Men to restrain him, telling him that it's too late to save her. As Jean flies through the solar storm, her powers are pushed to the limits and the radiation pushes through causing her extreme pain. As she is overcome she screams out Scott's name. 

This story is continued next issue.... 

TITULO: Classic X-Men #8
FECHA: Abril / 1987 
PORTADA: Arthur Adams (lapices, tinta) 
PERSONAJES:
Featured Characters: X-Men, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Professor X
Supporting Characters: Jean Grey, Peter Corbeau
Villains: Sentinel Mk III (Final appearance), (Destroyed), X-Sentinels (Final appearance), (Destroyed), Stephen Lang (Apparent Death), Vanisher (Only in flashback), Council of the Chosen (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
Other Characters: Michael Rossi (Only in flashback), Vanisher (Only in flashback)
Locations: Sentinel Space Station, refitted from a S.H.I.E.L.D. space platform
Items: Cyclops' Visor, version 2, Fastball Special
Vehicles: Starcore space shuttle

ESCRITOR: Chris Claremont 
DIBUJO: Dave Cockrum, Jim Sherman
TINTA: Dave Cockrum, Sam Grainger
COLOR: Michele Wrightson, Paul Becton

EDITORIAL: Marvel Comics 
GENERO: Superheroes 
PAGINAS: 36 
FORMATO: .cbr 
TAMAÑO: 12.0 mb

" COMO UN FENIX, DESDE LAS CENIZAS "

(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO EN X-MEN #101)

TITULO: Classic X-Men #9
FECHA: Mayo / 1987 
PORTADA: Arthur Adams (lapices, tinta) 
PERSONAJES:
Featured Characters: X-Men, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Professor X
Supporting Characters: Jean Grey, Peter Corbeau
Villains: Sentinel Mk III (Final appearance), (Destroyed), X-Sentinels (Final appearance), (Destroyed), Stephen Lang (Apparent Death), Vanisher (Only in flashback), Council of the Chosen (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
Other Characters: Michael Rossi (Only in flashback), Vanisher (Only in flashback)
Locations: Sentinel Space Station, refitted from a S.H.I.E.L.D. space platform
Items: Cyclops' Visor, version 2, Fastball Special
Vehicles: Starcore space shuttle

ESCRITOR: Chris Claremont 
DIBUJO: Dave Cockrum, Tom Morgan
TINTA: Frank Chiaramonte, Sam Grainger
COLOR: Michele Wrightson

EDITORIAL: Marvel Comics 
GENERO: Superheroes 
PAGINAS: 36 
FORMATO: .cbr 
TAMAÑO: 12.8 mb

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