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Issue Details

Issue #136
Published August 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jim Salicrup
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Cover Details - "Child of Light and Darkness!"

Characters Professor X; Cyclops; Dark Phoenix; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Jim Novak; typeset
Notes Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.
Reprinted in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

17 page X-Men story "Child of Light and Darkness!"

Characters FEATURE: X-Men--Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; GUESTS: Beast; Angel; Lilandra; Gladiator; Shi'ar; Jarvis; John Grey; Elaine Grey; Sara Grey (1st); VILLAIN: Dark Phoenix [Jean Grey]; CAMEO: Jimmy Carter
Synopsis Dark Phoenix returns to Earth to face the X-Men and her old life; After a pitched battle with her former teammates, Jean is restored to her right mind after a furious assault by Xavier; As the team is celebrating the purging of the Phoenix force, they vanish into thin air.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne (Co-plot); Chris Claremont
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Reprinted in Uncanny X-Men, The (Marvel, 1984 series) #nn; in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #42 (Mid-December 1989); in X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 1991 series) #nn; in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 (1997); in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #16 [part 1]; in Uomo Ragno, L' (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #17 [part 2]; in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]