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Issue Details

Issue	#-1
Published	July 1997
Cover Price	1.95 USD
Pages	44
Editing	Bob Harras; Mark Powers (associate); Jason Liebig (assistant)
Notes	Issue published between Generation X #28 and 29

Cover Details - "Banshee...in the Lair of the Dark Beast!"

Characters	Banshee; Dark Beast; Husk; Synch; M; Chamber; Skin; Jubilee; Emma Frost [White Queen]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Chris Bachalo (signed)
Inks	Al Vey (signed)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Cover is an homage to the cover of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #29

22 page Generation X story "The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship!"

Characters	Sean Cassidy [Banshee]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; GUESTS: Stan Lee; Lowell Fontaine; VILLAINS: Harry Leland; Dark Beast; CAMEOS: Generation X [Synch; M; Husk; Skin; Jubilee; Chamber]; Tores; Pamela Anderson (on TV)
Synopsis	Stan Lee interrupts our regularly scheduled program to narrate a past adventure where NYPD officer, Sean Cassidy, tries to save a 16 year old Emma Frost from the Dark Beast; But maybe the young girl with burgeoning psychic powers doesn't want to be rescued.
Genre	superhero
Script	James Robinson
Pencils	Chris Bachalo
Inks	Al Vey
Colors	Marie Javins
Letters	Comicraft
Reprinted	in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #32

3 page X-Men text article "For the Sake of Humanity, The X-Men's Days Are Numbered..."

Characters	Bastion; Professor X
Genre	superhero
Script	Scott Lobdell
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Interview with Scott Lobdell about the Operation Zero Tolerance crossover.