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Issue Details

Issue #201
Published January 1986
Frequency [None Listed]
Cover Price 0.65 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.30 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Terry Kavanagh (Assistant Editor); Ann Nocenti

Cover Details - "Who Will Lead Them?"

Characters Storm; Cyclops
Genre superhero
Pencils Rick Leonardi (signed)
Inks Whilce Portacio (signed)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Essential X-Men #6; in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #105; in Uncanny X-Men No. 201 (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn]; in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Magazine (Marvel, 1020 series) #[nn]

22 page X-Men story "Duel"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Rogue; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde; Rachel Summers [Phoenix II]; GUESTS: Nathan Christopher Summers [Cable; as a baby]; Professor X; Magneto; Lilandra; New Mutants--Cannonball; Illyana Rasputin [Magik]; Dani Moonstar [Mirage]; Doug Ramsey [Cypher]; Wolfsbane [Rahne]; Sunspot; Warlock; Starjammers--Corsair; Hepzibah; Raza; Ch'od; Binary [Carol Danvers]; CAMEOS: Watcher; Ronald Reagan; (Bob Dole mentioned)
Synopsis Cyclops and Storm duel for leadership of the X-Men; Cyclops leaves the team; Maddie's baby is Nathan Christopher Summers (later Cable); Xavier is stuck in space indefinitely.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Rick Leonardi
Inks Whilce Portacio
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Reprinted in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #105; In Essential X-Men #6; in Incredibili X-Men, Gli (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #18; in Uncanny X-Men No. 201 (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn]; in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Magazine (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page X-Mail letters page

Letters Typeset