Synopsis
Lilandra transports the X-Men to her base so that Phoenix can be killed for her crime of wiping out an entire star system. Xavier explains that the Phoenix Force has been purged from Jean and demands the right to trial by combat when his captors refuse to listen. The X-Men and the Imperial Guard fight on the Blue Area of the Moon to determine Jean's fate. During the battle, Dark Phoenix manifests herself once again and Jean sacrifices herself rather than let the Phoenix loose on the universe.
Notes
No copyright registration was filed for the issue. As such, there is no official on-sale date. However, May is all but certainly when the issue first went on sale. The official on-sale date for issue #136 was April 29, and it is June 24 for #138. A May on-sale date is consistent with that. Also, at this point in time, comics in Marvel's color newsprint line consistently went on-sale in comics stores four months ahead of the cover date.
There is no Comics Code Authority seal of approval on the cover. According to Marvel scriptwriter (and occasional editor) Roger Stern, the absence of the seal was an accident. "That month, Marvel started running a contest with a big honkin’ banner across the tops of all the covers... which necessitated some special paste-ups... and the code seal either fell off or was never added." Stern was quoted in Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #93 (March 8, 2007) at www.comicbookresources.com.
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #180, June 1980.
Reprinted in
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- L'Uomo Ragno #18— part 2
- L'Uomo Ragno #19— part 3
- Classic X-Men #43
- Phoenix #1— Pages 1-12 only
- The Dark Phoenix Saga: The Uncanny X-Men #[nn]
- Essential X-Men #2— black and white
- The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #7
- The Uncanny X-Men #[nn]
- The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time #8
- De X-Mannen #7
- Marvel Collectible Classics: X-Men #3
- Wizard X-Men Masterpiece Edition #1
- Buy Rite, Inc. [X-Men] #[nn]
- Crazy Magazine #88— rescripted
- Patrulla-X #6
- El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta #166— parte 1
- El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta #168— parte 2
- X-Men [pocket] #1
- Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #393— 17 pages only
- Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #394
- Marvel Visionaries: Chris Claremont #[nn]
- Prosjekt X #9/1985
- Marvel-Comic-Sonderheft #22
- Spécial Strange #33
- Marvel Gold. La Imposible Patrulla-X #2
- Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов #24
- The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection #2
- Marvel Série II #2
- The X-Men #137
Credits
- Plot
- John Byrne
- Pencils
- John Byrne
- Inks
- Terry Austin
- Colours
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- Jim Novak, Tom Orzechowski
- Editor
- Jim Salicrup, Louise Simonson
- Editor-in-chief
- Jim Shooter
- Plot, script
- Chris Claremont
Characters
- Marvel Girl
- Scott Summers
- Jean Grey
- Cyclops
- Dark Phoenix
- Hussar
- Tempest
- Nightside
- Warren Worthington III
- Charles Xavier
- Bel-Dann
- Earthquake
- Gladiator
- Warstar
- Araki
- Colossus
- Storm
- Beast
- Smasher
- Angel
- Logan
- Ororo Munroe
- Professor X
- B'nee and C'cil
- Starbolt
- Oracle
- Piotr Rasputin
- The Supreme Intelligence
- Nightcrawler
- Vril-Rokk
- Kallark
- Lilandra Neramani
- Hank McCoy
- Uatu
- Kurt Wagner
- Sybil
- Grannz
- Manta
- Raksor
- The Watcher
- Wolverine
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