(June 1996)
Marvel,
1996 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.95 USD; 2.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
X-Men Group; Marvel Comics
- Barcode
- 759606043415 00111
- Editing
- Mark Powers (credited) (editor); Bob Harras (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
The other three issues have a rating, but one is not printed on this issue.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Birth of a Dark Covenant
Cyclops; Jean Grey / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- John Paul Leon (signed as JPLeon)
- Inks
- Jon Holdredge (signed as Holdredge)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Apocalypse [En Sabah Nur]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Mr. Sinister [Dr. Nathaniel Essex]; Phoenix [Jean Grey]
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Top (Panini France, 1997 series) #1 (mars 1997) [Quatrième de couverture seulement avec un autre arrière plan [Back cover only with another background]] -
in Cíclope y Fénix: El Origen De Mr. Siniestro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1997 series) (Junio 1997) [La portada original de dos páginas se reimprime en una sola.], (Junio 1997) [Esta reimpresión solamente abarca la mayor parte de la página principal de la portada original de dos páginas.] -
in X-Men: Cyclops & Phoenix - Past & Future (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018) [back cover only; recolored; new trade dress]
-
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
Digging Up the Past
Cyclops; Jean Grey / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Peter Milligan (credited)
- Pencils
- John Paul Leon (credited)
- Inks
- Klaus Janson (credited)
- Colors
- Kevin Somers (credited); Malibu Coloring (credited as Malibu Hues) (enhancements)
- Letters
- Richard Starkings (credited); Comicraft (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 1859 At an isolated estate on the outskirts of London...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Apocalypse [En Sabah Nur] (also in flashback); Cyclops [Scott Summers] (flashback); Charles Darwin (first appearance, flashback); Daniel Edge (first appearance, flashback); Adam Stanislaus Essex (first appearance, corpse); Dr. Nathaniel Essex (also in flashback); Rebecca Essex (first appearance, also in flashback); Phoenix [Jean Grey] (flashback); Cootie Tremble (first appearance, flashback); Marauders (villain, flashback); Martha (flashback); Frank (death in flashback); Pat (death in flashback); Billy (death in flashback)
- Synopsis
- Cyclops and Phoenix arrive in 1859 to witness the origin of Mr. Sinister and the awakening of Apocalypse.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Top (Panini France, 1997 series) #1 (mars 1997)
- in Cíclope y Fénix: El Origen De Mr. Siniestro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1997 series) (Junio 1997)
- in The Further Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix (Marvel, 1997 series) (July 1997)
-
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