The main plot thread in the group of issues in particular focuses on the first appearance of Madelyne Pryor, a woman who bears more than a striking resemblence to the late Phoenix, aka Jean Grey, and the X-Men are left to wonder: could she somehow be Phoenix herself, miraculously reincarnated? Complicating matters further, Cyclops is starting to get attracted to her. Meanwhile, the mutant illusionist Mastermind has returned...
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Ask any comic reader who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s to name their favourite X-Men stories of all time and you usually get the usual "Dark Phoenix Saga" or "Days of Future Past". But if you really want to know the REAL reason why the X-Men were the hottest comic characters in those decades, you gotta check out this volume. It has everything that makes the X-Men what they are. Great character moments, milestones, multiple...
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This novel shows one of the highlight eras of the X-Men. From Lockheed's debut, to Rogue's joining of the X-Men, to Cyclops' marriage to Madeline Pryor, to Ororo's personality change, so much is chronicled in this novel. Any X-men fan needs to collect this novel; his collection would simply not be complete.
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I've been a fan of the X-Men for years and years now, and I have to say, this is one of my all time favorite X-Men graphic novels. It chronicles some truly great moments from X-Men history. The two chapters concerning the X-Men's visit to Japan, the tragic, failed wedding of Logan to Mariko, and Wolverine's ultimate battle with the Silver Samuraii, is the stuff that made X-Men one of the greatest dramatic-action comic book...
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This book reprints Uncanny X-Men 168-176 (from 1983), featuring the introduction of Madelyne Pryor, the first appearance of the Morlocks, the story of how Rogue joined the X-Men, the almost-wedding of Wolverine and Mariko Yashida, and the ongoing subplot of Madelyne's uncanny resemblance to Jean Grey: is she the Phoenix reborn? The story, which is a sequel to the epic "Dark Phoenix" saga from 1980, draws to a conclusion in...
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