X-Men Forever Giant-Size #1

(July 2010)

Previously, in X-Men Forever (Table of Contents: 1)

recap / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Can Love Find a Way? (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont

Pencils

Mike Grell

Inks

Mike Grell

Colors

Moose Baumann

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

Genre

superhero

But What about Vengeance? (Table of Contents: 3)

X-Men / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont

Pencils

Fernando Blanco

Inks

Jason Paz

Colors

Wil Quintana

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

Genre

superhero

Armageddon Now! (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Chris Claremont

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Terry Austin

Colors

?

Letters

Tom Orzechowski (pp. 1–8, 10, 13); Denise Wohl (pp. 9, 11, 12, 14–17)

Editing

Archie Goodwin (1977)

Genre

superhero

Characters

X-Men [Professor X; Cyclops; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Banshee; Nightcrawler]; Lilandra; Misty Knight; Peter Corbeau; Starjammers [Corsair [Christopher Summers]; Hepzibah; Raza; Ch'od]; Jahf (villain, first appearance); Modt (villain, first appearance); D'Ken (villain); Gladiator (cameo); Titan (cameo); Jimmy Carter (cameo); Mr. Fantastic (cameo); Human Torch (cameo); The Thing (cameo); Firelord (cameo); John Grey (cameo); Elaine Grey (cameo); Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Beast; Wasp; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym];Black Panther] (cameo); Kate Summers (cameo flashback)

Synopsis

The X-Men and Starjammers are forced to battle the Crystal Guardians to try and gain access to the M'Kraan Crystal. Jean manifests awesome power as the Phoenix and saves the universe from destruction. Corsair is revealed as Cyclops' father.

Reprints

• from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #108 (December 1977)

Keywords

M'Kraan Crystal

Indexer Notes

This story was originally published in the first Byrne and Austin issue of X-Men.

Sources for particularization of letters credits are The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981) and The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Olshevsky 1988).