X-Men #137 [Direct]

(September 1980)

The Fate of the Phoenix! (Table of Contents)

X-Men / comic story / 35 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Byrne (plot); Chris Claremont (plot, script)

Pencils:

John Byrne

Inks:

Terry Austin

Colors:

Glynis Wein

Letters:

Tom Orzechowski

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

FEATURE: X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey] (Death; also as Marvel Girl and Dark Phoenix); Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler]; GUESTS: Watcher; Recorder; Beast; Angel; Lilandra; Shi'ar; Kree; Skrulls; Supreme Intelligence; Gladiator; Imperial Guard [Starbolt; Oracle; Tempest; Nightside; Smasher; Warstar (1st); Earthquake (1st); Hussar (1st); Manta (1st)]

Synopsis:

Lilandra transports the X-Men to her base so that Phoenix can be killed for her crime of wiping out an entire star system; Xavier explains that the Phoenix Force has been purged from Jean and demands the right to trial by combat when his captors refuse to listen; The X-Men and the Imperial Guard fight on the Blue Area of the Moon to determine Jean's fate; During the battle, Dark Phoenix manifests herself once again and Jean sacrifices herself rather than let the Phoenix loose on the universe.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration (migrated reprint links need inspection)

• in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #393 (January 1983) [17 pages only; [17 pages only]]
• in The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1984 series) #[nn] ([March] 1984)
• in Phoenix (Marvel, 1984 series) #1 (April 1984) [29 pp.]
• in L' Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #17 (Ottobre 1988) [part 1]
• in L' Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #18 (Novembre 1988) [part 2]
• in L' Uomo Ragno (Edizioni Star Comics, 1987 series) #19 (Dicembre 1988) [part 3]
• in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #43 (January 1990)
• in X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 1991 series) #[nn] (1991)
• in Star Magazine (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #12 (Settembre 1991) [as reprinted in Phoenix #1]
• in Marvel Collectible Classics: X-Men (Marvel, 1998 series) #3 (September 1998)
• in The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time (Marvel, 2001 series) #8 (December 2001)
• in Wizard X-Men Masterpiece Edition (Marvel / Wizard, 2003 series) #1 (December 2003)
• in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn] (June 2010)
• in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2

Indexer Notes

As is now known, Phoenix and Jean Grey were never one and the same as revealed in Jean's resurrection in Avengers #263 and Fantastic Four #286; In the original story, Jean Grey didn't die and the story with the original ending is printed in Phoenix: The Untold Story #1