- Script
- Whilce Portacio (credited) (plot); John Byrne (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Whilce Portacio (credited)
- Inks
- Art Thibert (credited)
- Colors
- Dana Moreshead (credited)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men [Professor X [Charles Francis Xavier]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Jean Grey; Colossus [Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin]; Iceman [Robert Louis Drake]; Archangel [Warren Kenneth Worthington III]; Forge]]; X.S.E. [Bishop [Lucas Bishop]; Malcolm; Randall] (introductions for all); White Queen [Jean Grey]; Shinobi Shaw (villain); Trevor Fitzroy (villain); Bantam (villain, introduction); Hellions (villains, death); Kroeger (villain, introduction, death); Burke (villain, introduction); Stylles (villain, introduction); Other Fitzroy Minions (villains); Donald Pierce (cameo); Sentinels (cameo)
- Synopsis
- The X-Men track the White Queen, who is being possessed by Jean Grey, to Fitzroy's stronghold where she is being held captive. Fitzroy kills all of the Hellions to open a portal from his future where a band of bad guys pours through. They are followed closely by Bishop, Randall, and Malcolm (X-Men from the future).
- Reprints
Bishop's appearance here is a last page cameo and it is a toss-up whether his first full appearance is this issue or next (even though he's on the cover).