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Issue Details

Issue #480
Published January 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.75 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Nick Lowe; Mike Marts; Sean Ryan (assistant); Joe Quesada (editor in chief); Dan Buckley (publisher)
Notes Indicia information: UNCANNY X-MEN Published Monthly except semi-monthly in August 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. © 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. Newsstand prices: 2.99 USD; 4.25 CAD. Subscription (12 issues): U.S. 27.00 USD; Canada 37.00 USD; Foreign 39.00 USD.

Cover Details - "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire Part 6 of 12"

Characters Vulcan [Gabriel Summers]; Shi'ar Imperial Guard [Gladiator; Starbolt; Neutron]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Watson (painted) (signed)
Inks John Watson (painted) (signed)
Colors John Watson (painted) (signed)
Notes Indicia information: UNCANNY X-MEN Published Monthly except semi-monthly in August 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. © 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. Newsstand prices: 2.99 USD; 4.25 CAD. Subscription (12 issues): U.S. 27.00 USD; Canada 37.00 USD; Foreign 39.00 USD.

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

Genre superhero
Pencils Billy Tan
Inks Danny Miki
Colors Frank D'Armata
Letters typeset
Notes Artwork is a grayscale reprint of part of the cover of issue #476

22 page X-Men story "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire Chapter Six: Vulcan's Progress (Redux)"

Characters Vulcan [Gabriel Summers]; Shi'ar Imperial Guard [Gladiator; Astra; Cosmo (death); Electron; Flashfire; Hobgoblin; Impulse (death); Manta; Mentor; Neutron (death); Nightside; Oracle; Plutonia; Scintilla; Smasher (death); Starbolt; Titan (death)]; Vice-Chancellor K'Tor; Deathbird [Cals'yee Neramani]
Synopsis Vulcan fights the Imperial Guard, slaying several of them before he is defeated by Gladiator, who puts out his left eye. The captain of the ship Vulcan had commandeered communicates with the Vice-Chancellor, who places Vulcan in a particular cell so that when a member of the Shi'ar "secret army" helps him escape, he meets someone unexpected.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Brubaker
Pencils Clayton Henry
Inks Mark Morales
Colors Frank D'Armata
Letters Joe Caramagna [as VC's Joe Caramagna]
Notes The additional pages in this oversize issue are taken up by ads.

2 page X-Men letters page "X-Mail"

Genre superhero
Script Nick Lowe (responses); Sean Ryan (responses); Andy Schmidt (responses)
Pencils Billy Tan
Inks Danny Miki; Allen Martinez
Colors Frank D'Armata
Letters typeset