(September 1999)
Marvel,
1999 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 2.99 USD; 4.50 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Barcode
- 759606047710 00111
- Editing
- Ruben Diaz (editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in [no title indexed]
X-Men / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phoenix [Rachel Summers]; Kitty Pryde; Wolverine; Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Méga (Panini France, 1997 series) #12 - X-Men : True friends (janvier 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
Wolverine appears on the cover, but he does not appear in the story until issue #2.
True Friends
X-Men / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- Rick Leonardi
- Inks
- Al Williamson (pp. 1-8, 17, 19 & 24-32); Sam de la Rosa (credited as and co.) (pp. 9-16, 18 & 20-23)
- Colors
- Shannon Blanchard
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski; ? [as Bullpen/DS]
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]; Phoenix [Rachel Summers]; Alasdhair Kinross (introduction); Lilabet (introduction); Mrs. Fraser (introduction); Shadow King [Amahl Farouk] (villain; behind the scenes); Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (villain); Geist (villain, introduction); Lady Regina Windemere (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Phoenix accidentally transports herself and Kitty to 1936. Kitty and newfound friend Alasdhair Kinross (and his young cousin Lilabet) become aware of a Nazi plot to destabilize the British monarchy. Lilabet is captured. Phoenix attacks Kitty and Alasdhair.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Méga (Panini France, 1997 series) #12 - X-Men : True friends (janvier 2000)
-
in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #55 (Maggio 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
This story features the chronological earliest appearance of the Shadow King (behind the scenes; he appears fully in the next issue), decades before he appears as Amahl Farouk in X-Men #117.
Precise inks credits from Sam de la Rosa via the GCD Error Tracker.
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.