The X-Men #125 [Direct]

(September 1979)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Sales Leadership Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

There's Something Awful on Muir Island! (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont (plot, script)

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Terry Austin

Colors

Glynis Oliver

Letters

Tom Orzechowski (credited as Orzechowski)

Job Number

LG490

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Jean Grey--a mutant telepath/telekinetic, and one of the founding members of the uncanny X-Men.

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men: Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (featured); Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (featured); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (flashback) (featured); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (featured); Phoenix [Jean Grey] (flashback) (supporting); Professor X [Charles Xavier] (flashback) (featured); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (flashback) (featured); Wolverine [Logan] (flashback) (featured)
Angel [Warren Worthington III] (on screen); Araki; Beast [Hank McCoy] (supporting); Havok [Alex Summers] (supporting); Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Magda Lehnsherr (Magneto's wife; on screen); Moira MacTaggert (supporting); Angus MacWhirter (antagonist) (possessed by the Mutant X); Magneto [Max Eisenhardt] (flashback) (antagonist); Marvel Girl [Jean Grey] (on screen); Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde]; Multiple Man [Jamie Madrox] (supporting); Lilandra Neramani (supporting); Polaris [Lorna Dane] (supporting); Proteus [Kevin MacTaggert]; Maelen; Popeye; Phantom Stranger (both snuck into a group panel of aliens on the Shi'ar homeworld); Pierson's Puppeteer

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Moira tests Jean's Phoenix powers. Jean begins having hallucinations thanks to Mastermind. Moira discovers that Proteus has escaped. Beast finds out the X-Men are alive and lets them know that Moira needs their help on Muir Isle.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4
• in Spécial Strange (Editions Lug, 1975 series) #26 (10 décembre 1981)
• in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #20 (Fevereiro de 1984) [Do original, da história, da página 3, a última vinheta foi usada para uma só página.]
• in X:en (Semic, 1984 series) #2/1985 ([februari] 1985)
• in Prosjekt X (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1985 (uke 11 1985) [minus page 7]
• in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #7 (1986)
• in Marvel (Labor Comics, 1986 series) #2 (Luglio 1986)
• in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #31 (March 1989)
which is reprinted
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #97 (Febrero 22 de 1990)
• in X-Men Saga (Semic S.A., 1990 series) #12 (avril 1993)
• in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 ([August] 1997) [black and white]
• in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #11 (Agosto 1997)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004)
• in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in X-Men: Proteus (Marvel, 2009 series) (2009)
• in Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - Días del Futuro Pasado
• in X-Men Classic (Panini France, 2012 series) #4 (décembre 2012)
• in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
• in Phoenix Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021)
• in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #39 - Foudre cosmique (mars 2022)

Indexer Notes

Page 7, panels 3-6: Magda Eisenhardt’s character is briefly mentioned for the first time as Magneto’s late wife. This information, together with that published in August 1979 a month earlier, pages 2-3 in The Avengers #186, infers that Magneto is, in fact, the natural father of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, alias the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

Page 11, panels 5-6: Various characters cameo appearances pop out in Lilandra’s ball scene. Notably, Dirac, Shakati and his two minions, Arak and Arion (Marvel Preview #11, June 1977). More surprisingly, the outlines of Popeye the Sailor Man (panel 5, right side) and the Phantom Stranger (panel 5, left) appear as Easter eggs. To note: the Phantom Stranger is a DC character.


A famous quote from William Shakespeare inspires this episode’s title: "There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark" (Hamlet. Act 1, scene 4). From this issue to X-Men #128, authors will refer titles to some famous Shakespeare’s quotes.

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X-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]

Reprints

• in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Sheldon Wiebe and Jana C. Hollingsworth. Includes a small promo for Spider-Woman.

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Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Sportscaster Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Olympic Sales Club, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)