The X-Men #127 [Direct]

(November 1979)

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The Quality of Hatred! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

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

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Terry Austin

Colors

Glynis Oliver

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

Job Number

LG549

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The hurricane wind is so loud, no other sound can be heard above its screaming, so strong that nothing living can stand against it.

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men [Banshee [Sean Cassidy] (featured); Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (featured); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (featured); Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] (featured); Phoenix [Jean Grey] (featured); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (featured); Wolverine [Logan] (featured)]; Havok [Alex Summers] (guest); Moira MacTaggert (guest); Polaris [Lorna Dane] (guest); Proteus [Kevin MacTaggert] (villain); Joe MacTaggert (guest, first appearance, dies); Jennie Banks (guest, first appearance, possessed by Proteus, dies); Wallis (first appearance)

Synopsis

Cyclops pulls the team together after their first mind numbing encounter with Proteus. Proteus takes over the body of his father in order to take the X-Men down in round two.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2009 series) #4
• in Spécial Strange (Editions Lug, 1975 series) #27 (10 mars 1982)
• in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #22 (Abril de 1984) [Do original, faltam da história, as páginas: 6 (vinhetas 4 a 6), 7 (vinhetas 2 a 5), e 8 (vinhetas 1 e 2)]
• in Prosjekt X (Semic, 1984 series) #4/1985 (uke 15 1985)
• in Die Gruppe X (Condor, 1985 series) #7 (1986)
• in Classic X-Men (Marvel, 1986 series) #33 (May 1989)
which is reprinted
• in X-Men Saga (Semic S.A., 1990 series) #13 (juillet 1993)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #101 (Marzo 22 de 1990)
• in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #2 ([August] 1997) [black and white]
• in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #11 (Agosto 1997)
• in Wizard X-Men Masterpiece Edition (Marvel; Wizard, 2003 series) #1 (December 2003)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([October] 2004)
• in 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), #4 (décembre 2012)
• in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - Proteus (2020)
• in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #39 - Foudre cosmique (mars 2022)

Indexer Notes

Unlike previous titles, this episode’s one isn’t directly inspired by a quote from William Shakespeare’s works. Nevertheless, 'The Quality of Hatred!' could be considered a counterpoint to ‘the quality of mercy,’ one famous quote from the British author, extracted from his Merchant of Venice play (Act 4, scene 1). For as Proteus shows no mercy for his father and, besides, uses the form of a woman, Jennie Banks; that could be considered a parallel to the character of Portia, disguised as a man, in Shakespeare’s crucial play’s scene that refers to ‘the quality of mercy.’

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Script

Chris Claremont

Letters

typeset

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letter of comment from Laura Webb.

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