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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published November 2008
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Axel Alonso; Will Panzo (assistant); Daniel Ketchum (assistant); Joe Quesada (editor in chief); Dan Buckley (publisher)
Notes Features "Manifest Destiny" logo. Indicia information: Published Monthly except semi-monthly in February by MARVEL PUBLISHING, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, INC. Office of Publication: 417 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. © 2008 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. Newsstand prices: 3.99 USD; 3.99 CAD. Subscription (12 issues): U.S. 27.00 USD; Canada 37.00 USD; Foreign 39.00 USD. U.S. on sale date 2008-10-15

Cover Details

Characters X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Wolverine [Logan]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inks Simone Bianchi (ink washes; signed); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes; signed)
Colors Simone Peruzzi (signed)
Notes Features "Manifest Destiny" logo. Indicia information: Published Monthly except semi-monthly in February by MARVEL PUBLISHING, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, INC. Office of Publication: 417 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. © 2008 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. Newsstand prices: 3.99 USD; 3.99 CAD. Subscription (12 issues): U.S. 27.00 USD; Canada 37.00 USD; Foreign 39.00 USD. U.S. on sale date 2008-10-15

1 page X-Men recap "Previously in Astonishing X-Men"

Genre superhero
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Colors Laura Martin
Letters typeset
Notes Art is a detail from the cover to issue #1.

22 page X-Men story "Ghost Box Part Three"

Characters X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]; S.W.O.R.D. [Abigail Brand]
Synopsis Puzzled by the box they retrieved at Chapanga Beach, the X-Men call in Agent Brand. She tells them it's a Ghost Box, and that it's used for travel between parallel worlds. The team also finds out that the coordinates for "Tian" from the notebook they found match a spot in China known as the Dead Five Miles, in which nothing may be detected. They go there, and discover the floating retreat of a group of mutants who apparently died on M-Day.
Genre superhero
Script Warren Ellis
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters Joe Caramagna