The Uncanny X-Men #186 [Direct]

(October 1984)

Lifedeath (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont (credited)

Pencils

Barry Windsor-Smith (credited)

Inks

Terry Austin (credited)

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited as Wein); Christie Scheele (credited as Scheele)

Letters

Tom Orzechowski (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Once upon a time, there was a woman who could fly.

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men [Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Rogue [Anna Marie] (also in holographic flashback); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (also in holographic flashback); Professor X [Charles Xavier]]; Val Cooper (guest); Forge (guest) (also in holographic flashback); Henry Peter Gyrich (holographic flashback); Phillip Rosen (guest, death); Dire Wraiths (villains)

Synopsis

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who could fly." Storm comes to grips with the loss of her powers. Dire Wraiths attack.

Reprints

• in X-Men, Les étranges (Editions Lug, 1983 series) #11 - Adieu Tornade ([décembre] 1987) [4 pages omitted]
• in Marvel Spesial (Semic, 1987 series) #5/1988 ([september] 1988)
• in Gli Incredibili X-Men (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #12 (Giugno - Luglio 1991)
• in X-Men (TM-Semic, 1992 series) #2/1993 (1993)
• in X-Men Classic (Marvel, 1990 series) #90 (December 1993)
• in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #5 (2004) [black and white]
• in X-Men: Lifedeath (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #10 (2017)
• in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 (2020)
• in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #9 - Mort apparente (février 2021)

Indexer Notes

Next Lifedeath story by Windsor-Smith in The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1981 series) #198.