The Uncanny X-Men #281 [Direct]
(October 1991)

Marvel, 1981 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.65 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Editing
Bob Harras (editor); Suzanne Gaffney (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Desperate Alliances! (Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Whilce Portacio (signed)
Inks
Art Thibert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Genre
superhero
Characters
Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; Sentinels
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Wraparound Cover

Source for letters credit is The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994).

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Fresh Upstart (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Jim Lee (plot); Whilce Portacio (plot); John Byrne (script)
Pencils
Whilce Portacio
Inks
Art Thibert
Colors
Joe Rosas
Letters
Tom Orzechowski
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel]; Gateway (guest); Trevor Fitzroy (villain, 1st); Sentinels (villains); Donald Pierce (villain); Lady Deathstrike (villain); Cylla (villain); Reavers [Bonebreaker; Murray Reese; Pretty Boy; Wade Cole; Angelo Macon] (villains); White Queen [Emma Frost] (villain); Hellfire Club (villain); Shinobi Shaw (villain); Hellions [Roulette; Tarot; Empath; Catspaw; Beef (death); Jetstream (death)] (villains)
Synopsis
X-Men Gold Team is formed. Trevor Fitzroy of the Upstarts sends Sentinels to slaughter Donald Pierce and the Reavers as well as the White Queen and the Hellions (and doesn't do a shabby job of taking out both).
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Indexer Notes

1st Mention of the "Upstarts"--a band of bad guys who gather points by killing mutant super-folk.

X-Men Blue appear in the new X-Men #1

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Desperate Alliances!
    X-Men
  2. 1. Fresh Upstart
    X-Men
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