X-Men Classic #56 [Direct]
(February 1991)

Marvel, 1990 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.65 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
?
On-sale Date
1990
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Louise Simonson (credited as Louise Jones) (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Steve Lightle (signed)
Inks
Steve Lightle (signed)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Cyclops; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Wolverine; Kitty Pryde]
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Cover Thumbnail for X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #56 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for X-Men Classic (1990 series) #56 [Newsstand]
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The Hellfire Gambit (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Bob McLeod
Inks
Joe Rubinstein
Colors
Don Warfield
Letters
Janice Chiang
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde]; Amanda Sefton; Stevie Hunter; VILLAINS: White Queen [Emma Frost]; Sebastian Shaw; Harry Leland; Hellfire Soldiers [including Wade Cole, later member of the Reavers]
Synopsis
Storm and the White Queen duke it out in each others bodies. X-Men vs. Hellfire Club. Xavier "convinces" Kitty's parents to let her stay at his school.
Reprints

[Cover to Uncanny X-Men #152] (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bob McLeod
Inks
Bob McLeod
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Storm; Professor X; Cyclops; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Kitty Pryde]; White Queen [Emma Frost]
Reprints
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    X-Men
  2. 1. The Hellfire Gambit
    X-Men
  3. 2. [Cover to Uncanny X-Men #152]
    X-Men
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