Excalibur #96 [Direct Edition]

(April 1996)

Fireback (Table of Contents: 1)

Excalibur / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Warren Ellis (credited)

Pencils

Carlos Pacheco (credited)

Inks

Bob Wiacek (credited)

Colors

Ariane Lenshoek (credited); Malibu Coloring (credited as Malibu's Hues) (separations)

Letters

Richard Starkings (credited); Comicraft (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Excalibur: Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]
Excalibur: Britanic [Brian Braddock]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Douglock; Lockheed; Meggan; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Pete Wisdom
X-Men: Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Jean Grey
Gambit [Remy LeBeau] (flashback) (cameo); Mountjoy (villain); Psylocke [Betsy Braddock] (flashback) (cameo); Sebastian Shaw (villain); Shinobi Shaw (villain); Alistaire Stuart; Martine (villain); Scratch (villain, introduction); British Hellfire Club [Red Queen [Margali Szardos] (introduction as Red Queen); Red King [Alan Wilson] (introduction); Black Queen [Emma Steed] (introduction); Black King [Quentin Templeton] (introduction); Red Rook [Jane Hampshire] (introduction)]

Synopsis

Shinobi asks Brian to rejoin the British Hellfire Club as Mountjoy has become part of the Inner Circle. Half of Excalibur heads to New York to collect Alistaire who has turned up at X-Mansion with information but Black Air attacks.

Reprints

• in Excalibur Visionaries: Warren Ellis (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2010 [February 2011])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sword Strokes / letters page / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Suzanne Gaffney ?

Letters

Comicraft (credited) (design); typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mark Shakespeare, Jon Prive, Chris Wright, Robert Jones, Rockwell N. Greene, Jamie Binningtor, Catherine D. Kobasiuk, Tom Malinowski, Doud Ohmer, and Steven J. Wolfe.