COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Men 123 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0163090005
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
July 1979
"Listen, Stop Me if You’ve Heard it, But This One Will Kill You!"
Chris Claremont - Co-Plotter, Scripter
John Byrne - Co-Plotter, Layout Penciler
Terry Austin - Penciler, Inker
Tom Orzechowski - Letterer
Glynis Wein - Colorist
Roger Stern - Editor
Jim Shooter - Editor-in-Chief
Synopsis:
Swinging through New York City, Spider-Man drops in on Scott Summers and Colleen Wing to catch up on things, before leaving for a date with Cissy Ironwood. After he leaves, he hears a familiar sound and knows someone is in trouble, and he has an idea who. Nightcrawler and Colossus are on a double date at the Lincoln Center when they are captured in a steel box, gassed and air lifted away. Banshee is shot with a tranquilizer dart at the mansion, along with Storm, who succumbs to the villainous Arcade’s deviousness. Spider-Man calls the mansion to warn the X-Men, but finds he is too late. Arcade warns him that, once he’s finished with them, he’s coming after Spider-Man himself. Wolverine is also captured and the six X-Men find themselves at the mercy of Murderworld. They are quickly separated and channeled into individually created rooms, where they face Arcade’s deadly toys and equally deadly choices. Colossus faces no nefarious devices, but instead is spoken to by KGB Colonel Alexei Vazhin, who proceeds to brainwash him. The X-Men struggle against their respective opponents and devices, but Cyclops doesn’t trust Arcade and, instead of playing ball, he blasts out the wall in his room, emerging in the same area as Wolverine. They decide to leave, but Wolverine is ambushed by Colossus, who now believes he is the Proletariat. His first mission is to smash the X-Men.
Notes:
- The Steel Serpent fracas was shown in Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #64. The X-Men faced the Lords of Light and Darkness in Marvel Team-Up (1st Series) Annual #1.
- Spider-Man and Captain Britain were toyed with by Arcade in Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #65 - 66. Arcade’s comment that no one ever survives Murderworld is rather strange, considering Spider-Man and Captain Britain did just that.
- The Colonel Vazhin here is simply a robot. The real Alexei Vazhin actually makes his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #194.
- Banshee’s vocal chords were injured destroying Moses Magnum’s base back in Uncanny X-Men #119.
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