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Index to X-Men Volume II
Version 2.0, last modified January 21, 2001
by Robert Diehl (rfdiehl@yahoo.com)
Note: UXM = Uncanny X-Men.
Issue: X-Men II:1
Date: Oct-91
Story: Rubicon (39 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Jean Grey,
Beast, Archangel,
Iceman, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee, Colossus,
Rogue, Psylocke, Forge, Gambit, Jubilee
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Guest Stars: Col. Nick Fury, Chief Magistrate Anderson
Villains: Magneto and his Acolytes including Fabian
Cortez, Maj. Harry Delgado
Other Characters: Nance, Sasha, Deke
Credits: Writer & Pencils: Chris Claremont, Jim Lee
Inks: Scott Williams
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Asst. Editor: Suzanne Gaffney
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: In space above Russia, one shuttle pursues
another, lasers blasting. Magneto appears and
rips them apart, refusing to allow battle near
his Asteroid M. The first shuttle calls: they are
mutants who want him to lead them. He
protests that those days are over, but they say
he can't abandon his people.
Russia notices Magneto's energy signature,
notifies Washington, and initiates Stage One
of the Magneto Protocols.
Xavier has recently returned from space
(UXM 275) and now plans for the future. The
X-Men test Forge's defense systems: Bobby is
knocked down by missiles; Rogue leads them
around to destroy their launchers; Warren
tosses Piotr into the mansion, but Jean stops
him telepathically. Sean notices a second
assault team below the mansion and sends
robots to attack; Rogue is knocked out by a
second wave of missiles. Remy sneaks off
alone, gets to Jean, and kisses her. She
explodes: a robot decoy. Telepathically
masked by Betsy, Logan rips up through the
floor and tags the real Xavier, putting his
claws dangerously near his head and
angering Scott. Logan goes off in a huff, while
Scott tests the upgraded Danger Room.
Fury briefs the X-Men about Magneto. Rogue
says they shouldn't assume he's going to
attack (they shared a moment, UXM 274-
275). Xavier adopts Scott's plan to split the
team into two strike forces.
Magneto stops his new guests from fighting.
Deke shoots a mutant just as she asks for
sanctuary; Magneto turns Deke's gun against
himself. Cortez, calling the humans
"flatscans," has a proposition.
Cerebro detects Magneto in the mid-Atlantic,
so Xavier sends the Blue Team (Scott, Hank,
Logan, Rogue, Remy, Betsy) on the new
Blackbird.
Magneto has raised the Leningrad, the sub he
sank (UXM 150): he wants the nuclear
missiles for self-defense. He stops the
Blackbird in mid-flight; the X-Men attack and
get their heads handed to them. Logan starts
to go berserk, so Scott blasts Magneto out of
his way. He lands among the bones of the
sub's crew, which gives him pause, but he
rallies, takes the missiles, and flies away.
Rogue goes after him to talk, not fight, but
Russian jets shoot her down, making
Magneto's point for him. He detonates one
missile and disrupts electronics across Russia,
then returns to his asteroid. He is bleeding
from Logan's claws; Cortez uses his power to
heal him.
The X-Men search for Rogue; Xavier contacts
them: he got a phone call from Genosha,
saying she landed there. Cortez has formed
the Acolytes, including Delgado, who led the
Russians but switched sides. They rampage
through Hammer Bay to get Rogue as ally or
as prisoner. The X-Men arrive and give battle.
Magneto arrives and orates: "All my life, I
have seen people slaughtered wholesale for no
more reason than the Deity they worshipped,
or the color of their skin--or the presence in
their DNA of an extra, special gene. ?
Henceforth, I declare Asteroid M a sovereign
world. Home and haven to mutantkind."
Sean finds Moira crying, saying this is all her
fault.
Issue: X-Men II:2
Date: Nov-91
Story: Firestorm (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Jean Grey,
Beast, Archangel,
Iceman, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee, Colossus,
Rogue, Psylocke, Forge, Gambit
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Guest Stars: Col. Nick Fury, Val Cooper, Chief
Magistrate
Anderson
Villains: Magneto and his Acolytes including Fabian
Cortez, Chrome; Alpha the Ultimate Mutant
(in flashback); Gen. Akhronayev; Matsu'o
Tsurayaba
Other Characters: Alexyev, Dmitri
Credits: Writer & Pencils: Chris Claremont, Jim Lee
Inks: Scott Williams
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Magneto defends his Acolytes, even though
they have just attacked a hospital, and Rogue
says he's proving the anti-mutant bigots right.
He uses steel beams to take down an assault
helicopter, specially made from plastics, and
pushes the X-Men into the basement to rescue
the patients. Rogue flies at him, but he tosses
her into the bay. Betsy tries to get Cortez, but
he parries her blow, then uses his mutant
power to greatly enhance hers.
At the UN, Val and Fury observe. Alexyev is
angry about a nuclear detonation over Russia,
but the Chinese want to make peace with
Magneto. Anderson calls from Genosha,
furious. Russia demands they implement the
Magneto Protocols.
Betsy falls under the flood of anti-mutant
thoughts; Hank rescues her from the mob.
Remy cracks Cortez across the back of the
skull with his quarterstaff.
Magneto has Scott and Logan wrapped up
and demands the mutants stop squabbling. He
tries to get Rogue to trust him; meanwhile,
Betsy sneaks up and plunges her enhanced
psychic knife through his armor. Rogue is
about to finish him off when Chrome encases
the X-Men in metal. Magneto lifts everyone to
Asteroid M, now guarded by Soviet nukes. He
chides Cortez for starting this mess; Cortez
says he found an anomaly: someone altered
Magneto's DNA.
The Soviets launch a plasma cannon.
Xavier goes to Moira, crying in the boathouse,
which Magneto enters and lifts into the
stratosphere while Forge and Sean watch
helplessly. Magneto wants answers: he was
regressed to childhood by his own creation
(Defenders 16), and cared for by Moira until
an alien restored him (UXM 104). He
demands to know what she did to him; she
refuses to answer, so he pushes Xavier
through the wall and into space until she
confesses.
On Asteroid M, in front of Acolytes and X-
Men, she says his body was unable to handle
its own power, resulting in a mental
imbalance. She tried to stabilize his genetic
matrix to save him, as she was unable to do
for her son (Proteus, UXM 126-128).
Magneto takes her by the throat, furious that
she played God with him. Every decision he
made since then is now suspect. He encases
her in metal, to force her to perform the same
process on the X-Men and make them his
allies.
In the Sakhalin Islands, Russian soldiers sell
Omega Red's container to Matsu'o, who
double-crosses and kills them.
Scott tells Xavier his team has joined Magneto.
In Westchester, Ororo's team uses Danger
Room simulations but can't see how to defeat
them, Magneto, and the Acolytes all at once.
Fury informs them Stage 3 of the Magneto
Protocols have been activated, so a de facto
state of war exists. He suggests the X-Men
move quickly.
Issue: X-Men II:3
Date: Dec-91
Story: Fallout! (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Jean Grey,
Beast, Archangel,
Iceman, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee, Colossus,
Rogue, Psylocke, Forge, Gambit
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Guest Stars: Col. Nick Fury, Val Cooper, Chief
Magistrate
Anderson
Villains: Magneto and his Acolytes including Fabian
Cortez, Harry Delgado
Other Characters: Ambassador Kamanev
Credits: Writer & Pencils: Chris Claremont, Jim Lee
Inks: Scott Williams
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Forge has rigged an invisible, non-metallic
glider to let the X-Men approach Asteroid M
without being detected. Ororo uses her power
to draw wind high into space. Meanwhile, the
UN positions its plasma cannon. Magneto
must be destroyed at all costs.
Fury warns Jean, saying humanity is scared of
all the super-beings that have popped up.
Through her psi-link with Scott, Jean knows
his conversion is genuine. Cortez suggests the
same for Xavier, but Magneto wants him
broken, not turned. When Moira protests, he
covers her mouth with metal, then yells at her
for manipulating him. He falters, ill, pushes
Moira away, and lets Cortez reenergize him.
Scott's team relaxes on the asteroid; Remy
wants to risk touching Rogue, but she flies off.
Logan sneaks away, and only Hank notices.
Jean exhausts herself, telekinetically pulling
the glider to the asteroid. Logan reaches
Moira, says he knows the glider is coming,
and unsheathes his claws. Bobby super-
freezes the wall of the asteroid, and Piotr
punches through it. Xavier meets them. His
and Jean's telepathy is being inhibited, so Scott
sneaks up, kisses Jean, and then blasts her.
X-Men fight X-Men and Acolytes: Delgado
smashes Piotr; Hank rejoins the good guys and
stomps Delgado. Remy whups Sean; Forge
shoots him, but he deflects the shots; Bobby
gets Remy, then Betsy stabs his brain. That
was a mistake: he uncontrollably blasts ice
and gets her. Jean's psi-link to Scott lets her
anticipate his blasts, but she is tiring. Rogue,
also reconverted, blocks one for her.
Magneto arrives, saying he should have
known nothing could make the X-Men his
allies. Scott blasts him, angry at having been
manipulated. An Acolyte shoots him, then
Magneto stops the battle.
Xavier tells Magneto his way will always be
tainted with blood and rage; Magneto chokes
him, then collapses. Logan stands ready to
finish him, but he's no murderer. Moira says
her process failed when the X-Men used their
mutant powers and reverted to their natural
state; therefore Magneto had never been
under her control. She warns him that
Cortez's treatments are harming him.
Cortez escapes in a pod, takes control of the
plasma cannon, and fires. Magneto puts up a
shield; Xavier says he should evacuate with
the X-Men, but he stands with his Acolytes
and pushes Xavier into the glider, mentally
saying he is saving the X-Men because his
mission is to protect mutants. He has no
quarrel with them, as long as they don't
oppose him. Explosions engulf the asteroid,
and the X-Men return home.
Issue: X-Men II:4
Date: Jan-92
Story: The Resurrection and the Flesh (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Beast,
Wolverine, Banshee,
Rogue, Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Guest Stars:
Villains: Omega Red (Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich)
and gunmen, Matsu'o Tsurayaba; Fenris
(Andrea and Andreas von Strucker); Magneto,
Kevin MacTaggert (both in flashback)
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer & Pencils: Lee, Byrne
Inks: Williams
Letters: Orzechowski
Colors: Rosas
Editor: Harras
Editor-in-Chief: DeFalco
Synopsis: On a volcanic island in the South Pacific,
twenty men lay hands on Omega Red. They
die; he rises. Technicians say the mutant death
factor is under control, but then they are also
killed. Matsu'o shows Omega Red a photo of
Logan, his old enemy.
Logan, Remy, Jubilee, and Rogue are playing
basketball. Remy wins, too easily, and Rogue
thinks he's cheating. They quarrel; Logan
ruins the basket, and Remy charges the ball.
He hits Rogue with it, then tries to kiss her, so
she pushes him away.
Moira has a nightmare: her son falls off a
cliff. She tries to save him, but he turns into
Magneto, and dark forces grab her. Sean goes
to her; Xavier mindlinks them (his broken jaw
is wired shut). She is distraught over her
failure, and they try to convince her to stay
among friends, but she decides to go, leaving
Sean behind.
In Berlin, Matsu'o plots with Fenris, who want
to become Upstart Dominant and thereby
immortal.
Remy takes Rogue out to a restaurant for their
first official date: her in a gown, riding on the
back of his motorcycle. Hank (for whom
Forge has recreated an image inducer), Logan,
and Jubilee tag along in a jeep. Remy tries to
lose them; a wire is stretched across the road
and hits Rogue in the neck. Gunmen destroy
Remy's bike, then attack the jeep, which
crashes. The X-Men try to fight back; Omega
Red knocks out all but Logan, whom he
strangles in his tentacles. Thugs masquerading
as ambulance drivers bundle the other X-Men
up, as Moira rides past in a cab.
Issue: X-Men II:5
Date: Feb-92
Story: Blowback (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Jean Grey,
Beast, Archangel,
Iceman, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee, Colossus,
Rogue, Psylocke, Jubilee, Forge, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Maverick (David North), Dazzler (Alison
Blaire), Lila Cheney, Longshot
Villains: Omega Red and gunmen, Upstarts Matsu'o
Tsurayaba, Fenris; Dr. Cornelius; Victor Creed
(in flashback); Mojo, Spiral
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, John Byrne
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Scott Williams, Art Thibert, Bob Wiacek,
Joe Rubinstein
Letters: Tom, Lois
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Cerebro sounds an alarm; Forge, Scott,
Piotr,
and Betsy run to the Blackbird. Hank, Rogue,
Jubilee, and Remy wake up in the ambulance,
and Remy has a literal ace up his sleeve and
frees them. Rogue flies ahead to the
ambulance holding Logan, but gunmen shoot
her down. Jubilee and Hank manage to drive
off the road, while the Blackbird attacks. Betsy
warns Scott and Piotr to get away, just as the
gunmen blow themselves up. Piotr emerges
from the wreckage with Logan's mask.
Logan battles Omega Red in a snow bank,
while the Upstarts observe their stamina. They
call off Omega Red; Logan, half-dead,
remembers seeing him in Berlin thirty years
ago. Cornelius rigs Logan for a mind probe;
the Upstarts want to recreate the
carbonadium synthesizer.
Xavier briefs the X-Men, and sends the Blue
Team after Logan while the Gold Team meets
with Emma Frost (UXM 281). Jubilee insists
on tagging along; Sean leaves to go after
Moira; Forge plays chess with Xavier while
they wait.
Maverick breaks into the lab, turns out the
lights, and frees Logan, who grabs a canister
and makes a run for it. Cornered by Omega
Red, he slashes through the wall, jumps out of
the building, and disappears from sight.
Maverick gets him and tells him to rest. The
X-Men arrive, and Maverick leaves them to
their fate.
In Malibu, Lila tries to make Dazzler
remember her past, but she has amnesia.
Longshot crashes in and kisses her, and Lila
ports them away when Spiral shows up.
Issue: X-Men II:6
Date: Mar-92
Story: Farther Still (21 pages)
Feature Characters: Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke,
Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Maverick, Lila Cheney, Longshot, Dazzler
Villains: the Hand, Omega Red, Matsu'o Tsurayaba,
Sabretooth and Birdy, Mojo, Major Domo,
Fenris, Dr. Cornelius
Other Characters: Janice Hollenbeck (in flashback)
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Art Thibert
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Jubilee, Hank, and Scott fight past ninja
guards, but then Omega Red attacks them.
Carbonadium, a flexible alloy similar to
adamantium, conducts his mutant death
factor, and he has lethal pheromones on the
side.
Everyone is looking for Logan. Maverick has
him; unconscious, he remembers working
with him and Creed to disrupt the super
soldier program, Creed killing the scientist
Janice, and all of them jumping ten stories to
escape Omega Red.
Mojo co-opts Lila's teleport and orders his
guards to attack. Lila suggests Dazzler
remember how to user her light power,
quickly. Longshot insists Mojo is not above the
law, and an alien helps them escape down a
chute. They get to Longshot's rebel base, and
he kisses Dazzler, trying to jog her memory.
Fenris and their ninjas attack the X-Men; their
bioelectric blast fells Remy; Matsu'o takes
control of Betsy by post-hypnotic suggestion;
she uses her psionic knife to knock out Rogue.
Through shared psionic rapport, Logan feels
Betsy's pain and wakes up. He pops claws on
Maverick, his memory having been erased. An
alarm distracts him, and Maverick knocks
him away, then pulls a gun to arrest him.
Logan points out Creed is the one who tripped
the alarm.
Creed and Birdy meet with Matsu'o, who has
an X-Man collection. He vaguely remembers
Omega Red, and he has tussled with Remy
before. He takes Betsy to track Logan, who
convinces Maverick to free him, since he can't
beat Creed alone. Turns out they can't beat
him together, either, and Creed drags them
back to Matsu'o. Matsu'o offers the X-Men to
Omega Red, until they can stabilize his
metabolism with the carbonadium
synthesizer.
Issue: X-Men II:7
Date: Apr-92
Story: Inside? Out! (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke,
Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Maverick, Longshot, Dazzler
Villains: Dr. Cornelius, Matsu'o Tsurayaba, Omega
Red, Fenris, Sabretooth, Mojo, Major Domo
Other Characters: Janice Hollenbeck (in flashback)
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Art Thibert
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Cornelius probes Logan's mind to see what he
did with the carbonadium synthesizer: Logan,
Creed, and Maverick had infiltrated the
Russian lab just as they were creating their
super soldier, Omega Red.
Creed has Maverick captive and keeps
repeating one sentence. Matsu'o realizes what
happened to the synthesizer and tells
Cornelius to kill Logan. Betsy attacks, having
feigned being under Matsu'o's control. She
makes Omega Red think he has released his
death factor, then stabs him through the lung.
Maverick jumps up, also having feigned
defeat, and shoots one guard in the head so
the other gives him directions to the lab. Then
he shoots him and takes charge of Creed, who
is under Betsy's mind control.
Betsy takes out Andrea, but Matsu'o knocks
her silly. Creed and Maverick go to free the X-
Men, but when Betsy is knocked out, Creed is
free. Hank kicks him with his leg restraints,
then uses them to free Jubilee, who blasts
Creed with fireworks.
Matsu'o gloats over Betsy, but then Logan
breaks free. He and Omega Red fight, then the
X-Men break down the door with Creed's
body. Scott blasts Matsu'o; Remy throws
charged debris at Andreas; Rogue takes out
Omega Red. The lab starts to explode, so Scott
makes a hole in the roof and has Hank call for
the Blackbird.
In the Mojoverse, Longshot's rebels have been
defeated, and Dazzler plans to contact the X-
Men.
At the German embassy, Maverick asks the X-
Men to keep all this quiet. Logan goes to take
care of unfinished business: Matsu'o has his
men digging up Janice's grave, since Logan
had put the synthesizer into her body. But he
has already put himself in her coffin.
Cornelius is about to shoot Logan, when
Maverick shoots him through the head. Logan
tosses the synthesizer to Maverick, then goes
to find information about his past.
Issue: X-Men II:8
Date: May-92
Story: Tooth and Claw (20 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Jean Grey,
Beast, Storm,
Wolverine, Rogue, Psylocke, Jubilee, Forge,
Gambit, Bishop
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch), Bella Donna
Boudreaux
Villains:
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Lee, Thibert
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Logan can't get computer access to files
about
his past in Germany and is irritated when
Jubilee wants him to meet Bishop, whom
Ororo has reluctantly accepted onto the team.
Bishop says Forge will be called Genesis, and
that Jubilee is the last X-Man.
Forge is irritated that Ororo hasn't been
spending time with him. Ororo is irritated that
Scott went down in history as "the X-Men's
greatest leader."
Bishop recognizes Remy as the Witness (UXM
287) and commands (!) Xavier to psi-scan
him to see if he is loyal. Xavier demurs, and
Jean says it's time for a picnic at the lake.
Logan gets a one-word answer: "Barrington."
He feels his mind slipping, full of fake
memories (Wolverine 30), so Xavier says he
should focus on the present.
Jean psi-bolts Scott when she catches him
gawking at Betsy. Ororo has to get Bishop to
stand down and reminds him they can't build
a better future by brutalily. Rogue has
prepared a picnic basket for Remy, and he
flirtatiously chases her. She runs smack into
Bishop, who picks a fight with Remy, who
charges Rogue's boysenberry pie and throws
it. Rogue's face gets in the way, and she
doesn't kill them both but tells Bishop to judge
Remy as he is, not as he might become.
Just then, Bella Donna appears and blasts all
three of them. Remy has them stand down and
says that's his wife.
She meets with the team and says the New
Orleans guilds are at war. Remy explains that
he wed her to bring peace between the
Thieves and Assassins Guilds; her brother
fought Remy and was killed, and Remy was
exiled (before UXM 266). He must return to
restore the peace, and the X-Men go with
him.
Ghost Rider speeds into New Orleans, scaring
a local sheriff half to death.
Note: the story continues in Ghost Rider II:26.
Issue: Ghost Rider II:26
Date: Jun-92
Story: Blood Feud! (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: X-Men: Cyclops, Gambit, Psylocke,
Jubilee,
Beast, Wolverine, Rogue; Bella Donna
Boudreaux; Thieves Guild including Bernard
Le Branche, Jean and Michelle Martine
Villains: Brood in the Assassins Guild
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Howard Mackie
Pencils: Ron Wagner
Inks: Mike Witherby
Letters: Janice Chiang
Colors: Gregory Wright
Editor: Bobbie Chase
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Note: this occurs after X-Men II:8.
It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the
Assassins Guild (Boudreaux) is plying its trade
against the Thieves Guild (LeBeau). Le
Branche is victim #12, and Ghost Rider comes
to avenge the innocent blood. His human host,
Ketch, has been wounded, and he needs to
find Blaze to save his life.
The X-Men arrive in a rental car and get
pulled over by a sheriff. He pulls his gun
when he sees they're mutants, so Logan slices
it, Jubilee blinds him, and Scott blasts out his
tires, and Remy destroys his whole car to
prevent him using the radio. They leave him
there by the side of the road (protect a world
that fears and hates them?).
Ghost Rider goes to a church in a lonely part
of the French Quarter. Nearby, an assassin
kills another thief, and then his pregnant wife.
Ghost Rider fights him, not sure he's human.
He gets away, and Ghost Rider chases him
into an ambush. The Assassins want to make
him one of their own: they reveal themselves
to be Brood. They overpower him, and the
queen implants an egg.
Rogue and Bella Donna reconnoiter the city
and find nothing. Remy takes charge from
Scott; Logan sniffs out the players and realizes
they're up against the Brood. Melee ensues.
Then they come across the Queen and Ghost
Rider, who is now Brood.
Note: the story continues in X-Men II:9.
Issue: X-Men II:9
Date: Jun-92
Story: The Not So Big Easy (20 pages)
Feature Characters: Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke,
Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch), Bella Donna
Boudreaux
Villains: Brood in the Assassins Guild, including
Slaymasters
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Lee, Thibert
Letters: Orzechowski, Buhalis
Colors: Joe Rosas
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Note: this occurs after Ghost Rider II:26.
The Brood has taken over half the Assassins
Guild, killed half the Thieves. The X-Men fight
them, and Remy sees that Bella Donna now
has powers. Jubilee finds herself facing Ghost
Rider, who has been infested, and Hank
rescues her. ("As she is technically not an X-
Man, Jubilee isn't covered by our major
medical insurance. You hurt her. She sues us.
We'll lose the house.")
Logan decides to take the fight to the queen.
Then the floor caves in, and they are
separated in a labyrinth of caverns under the
city.
Bella Donna hits Remy, angry that he left her
on their wedding day rather than taking her
into exile.
Logan slices and dices Ghost Rider, who was
about to attack Hank, who realizes that the
Brood is arguing with Ghost Rider's human
host, so the implant isn't complete. Ghost
Rider runs off, and Logan goes after.
Scott helps Betsy, who flirts with him. Jubilee
stumbles upon a chamber full of captives,
whom Rogue helps free from their cocoons.
Ghost Rider attacks them, and the wall
collapses; Scott and Betsy are on the other
side. Scott zaps Ghost Rider, who says the
Brood chose the Guilds because they have
been specially bred for centuries. Remy tosses
a card at him before he can reveal any more.
Bella Donna blasts him with her accidentally
acquired powers. Betsy stabs him with her
psionic blade, and when she senses Ketch's
mind, she goes in.
She finds herself with Ketch, Ghost Rider, the
Brood, and Bella Donna. The ladies separate
the Brood and destroy it. Ghost Rider is free,
but Bella Donna is mortally wounded, and
Remy holds her in his arms as she dies and
disintegrates.
The X-Men and Ghost Rider prepare to take
vengeance on the Brood.
Note: the story continues in Ghost Rider II:27.
Issue: Ghost Rider II:27
Date: Jul-92
Story: Vengeance: Pure and Simple (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: X-Men: Cyclops, Gambit, Psylocke,
Jubilee,
Beast, Wolverine, Rogue; John Blaze
Villains: Brood
Other Characters: Clara
Credits: Writer: Howard Mackie
Pencils: Ron Wagner
Inks: Mike Witherby
Letters: Janice Chiang
Colors: Gregory Wright
Editor: Bobbie Chase
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Note: this occurs after X-Men II:9.
Ghost Rider and the X-Men take the battle to
the Brood Queen's lair, to rescue the captive
children of both the Guilds, glued to the walls
of the cavern.
Ketch, within Ghost Rider, is dying. Clara tells
Blaze that he needs help, so he leaves the
carnival behind.
Ghost Rider, Remy, and Logan track the
queen, while the rest defend the children.
Ghost Rider faces the queen and pulls her
skeleton right out of her body, but even that
doesn't stop her. Blaze arrives, guns blazing,
and they take off the queen's head. Logan
sticks claws through her eyes, tosses the head
in the air, Remy explodes it with a card, and
Scott blasts it, just to make sure.
Ghost Rider and Blaze ride off together. Remy
vows to track down the traitor to the Guilds.
Issue: X-Men II: Annual 1
Date: 1992
Story 1: The Slaves of Destiny (36 pages)
Feature Characters: Beast, Psylocke, Rogue, Gambit,
Wolverine,
Cyclops, Prof. X, Forge
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Arize (Toymaker), Quark
Villains: Mojo, Major Domo, Spiral, Gog, Magog
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils: Jim Lee, P. Craig Russell, Brian
Stelfreeze, Adam Hughes, Stuart Immonen,
Dan Panosian, Greg Capullo, Mark Texiera
Inks: P. Craig Russell, Brian Stelfreeze, Joe
Rubinstein, Harry Candelario, Dan Panosian,
Mark Texiera
Letters: Tom Orzechowski, Lois Buhalis
Colors: Joe Rosas
Managing Editor: Suzanne Gaffney
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Note: this is part 1 of Shattershot.
Arize narrates that Mojo has crushed the
rebellion. Quark gives himself up to save the
life of a hostage, who is immediately killed
anyway. Mojo sees the carnage and gloats; he
personally captures Arize in his hidden
bunker. Arize refuses to make new slaves and
blows himself up. Mojo realizes he has
escaped, and Major Domo says he probably
went to Earth.
Hank, Betsy, Rogue and Remy train in the
Danger Room, racing each other to the
control panel. Betsy gets there first, but Logan
pops out of the wall and says she's dead. Scott
says that reaching your destination doesn't
always mean the mission is over.
Mojo wants more bipeds, because they bring
in great ratings. Major Domo has him contact
Spiral, who is on Earth looking for Longshot,
so he can recapture Arize.
Cerebro has detected a new mutant in
Afghanistan. The X-Men find him among the
Muhajedin camp (who at this point are seen
as freedom fighters against the Soviets). They
evade a stinger missile and punch a few
rebels, then Hank says, in Pushti, that they're
not here to fight and gets taken to the injured
Arize. Betsy mind-links with him and learns
of the rebellion and its leader, Longshot.
Mojo's retrieval team, plus an announcer,
arrives, and Remy and Rogue run into them
on reconnaissance. The announcer is
enthusiastic about the battle, until Remy
knocks him off his aircraft.
The rest of the X-Men join in: Scott zaps,
Logan impales, Betsy uses her psionic knife,
and Hank kicks, babbles, and spins one poor
soul acrobatically with his feet. Gog calls a
retreat, and they port away. Scott prevents the
team from following them, not willing to
endanger the current mission, even though
Longshot is involved.
Mojo is enraged to learn he received the
highest ratings ever, as the fans laughed at his
failure. He decides he doesn't need Arize and
plans to make his own bipeds. Major Domo
awaits his downfall.
Note: continued in UXM Ann. 16.
Note: following are diagrams of the mansion
and the grounds and pin-ups of Psylocke and
Beast; Colossus, Psylocke and Gambit;
Wolverine; Prof. X, gambit, Beast, Cyclops,
Jean Grey, Rogue, Bishop, and Iceman's foot
Story 2: X-Men's top Ten Villains (5 pages)
Feature Characters: Jubilee, Wolverine
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains:
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Dan Slott
Pencils: Karl Altstatter
Inks: S. Williams, B. Vancata
Letters: Starkings
Colors: Dana Moreshead
Synopsis: Jubilee has the Danger Room set up the X-
Men's top ten villains; Logan catches her and
initiates the safety locks.
10. Mojo
9. the Reavers
8. Sentinels
7. the Brood
6. the Upstarts
5. Omega Red
4. Apocalypse
3. Mr. Sinister and the Marauders
2. Magneto and the Acolytes
Jubilee guesses that #1 is Dark Phoenix, but
Logan says that scenario was already played
out.
1. Hatred, in this case, anti-mutant hysteria.
Note: following is a pin-up of Rogue and
Psylocke, a diagram of the Blackbird, and pin-
ups of Havok and Cyclops vs. Sentinels; Mojo;
Forge, Wolverine, Banshee and Xavier vs.
Omega Red; and Rogue
Issue: X-Men II:10
Date: Jul-92
Story 1: Where Happy Little Bluebirds Fly? (16
pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Beast,
Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke, Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Longshot, Lila Cheney, Dazzler
Villains: Mojo, Major Domo, Mojo II the Sequel
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Wiacek, Altstaetter, Panosian
Letters: Buhalis, Orzechowski
Colors: Ariane
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Longshot, amnesiac, is blown by a tornado to
Kansas. His house lands on top of a woman
cyclist. He sees Scott, brainless, Rogue, unable
to kiss, and Logan, cowardly. Hank plays
Toto, with growls only he makes Longshot
remember they are being manipulated by
Mojo. The start down a yellow brick road to
his citadel.
Mojo's "The Wizard of X" is making record
ratings; he has Xavier strung up and forced to
watch.
Major Domo reruns how the X-Men were
captured: Dazzler found a teleporter to take
her to Westchester, but he was a double agent
and kidnapped the X-Men to the Mojoverse.
Mojo immediately jammed the psi's; Scott
turned up the music to charge Dazzler, who
zaps Mojo and escapes. She sees Longshot,
working for Mojo again, and falls down a
well.
Mojo sends Remy, Betsy, Jubilee, and Lila to
attack Longshot. Dazzler, unconscious among
the garbage, is retrieved by Mojo II (see next
iss.).
Story 2: Last Stand (6 pages)
Feature Characters: Maverick (David North)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: a super soldier, Alexander Ryking
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils, Inks: Mark Texiera
Letters: L. Lois Buhalis
Colors: Mike Rockwitz
Synopsis: Maverick is surrounded by guards. He drops a
grenade, locks himself in his armor, and kills
a few dozen. Ryking observes and considers
giving himself up, but a super soldier refuses
to let him, saying Barrington needs him.
Maverick blasts in; Ryking swears he told
Barrington everything he knows about the
Xavier File; Maverick is still under orders to
kill him, but gets interrupted by a blast to the
back. The super soldier says he needs Ryking
to fix his body, which the X-Men rendered
useless. They begin a tussle.
Issue: X-Men II:11
Date: Aug-92
Story 1: The X-Men vs. the X-Men! (Again) (16 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Beast,
Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke, Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Longshot, Lila Cheney, Dazzler
Villains: Mojo, Major Domo, Mojo II
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Jim Lee
Inks: Bob Wiacek
Letters: Lois Buhalis
Colors: Marie Javins
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Mojo II wants Dazzler to help him overthrow
Mojo, whose popularity is at an all-time high
because of the X-Men broadcast. Suspicious of
him, she goes along. Mojo II says the spined
slaves of the Mojoverse are ready to revolt if
given leadership, and he has his agents
controlling the cameras, to broadcast his own
victory.
Longshot can't read Lila out of her mind
control, while Betsy stabs Scott with her
psionic knife, making him blast Rogue full-
force, knocking her out of the arena and out
of Mojo's control. Then he blasts Mojo's
control booth, but it is made of transparent
Mojonium.
Xavier, unable to break through Mojo's
telepathic dampers alone, is linking to each of
his students' minds with Betsy's help. She goes
to free Jubilee, who then attacks Logan,
snapping him out of his cowardice. He slashes
at Mojo's control booth weakening it enough
for Rogue to smash through.
Mojo II arrives as well: he is a clone, "flawed"
with compassion (and a spine). The spined
ones raise rebellion, and Mojo fights. ("Maybe
I should have stuck to Brady Bunch reruns?quot;)
Longshot stabs his fat belly with a sword, and
he disintegrates.
Mojo II takes over; Xavier senses that Dazzler
is expecting. Longshot suggests the name
"Shatterstar" (see X-Force, esp. iss. 61).
Story 2: Over ?Again (7 pages)
Feature Characters: Maverick (David North)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: a super soldier, Alexander Ryking
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils, Inks: Mark Texiera
Letters: L. Lois Buhalis
Synopsis: Maverick empties his machine gun on the
super soldier, who has omnium skin. Then he
tries a grenade, which at least gets himself
blown away from the villain. He wishes he
still had his mutant healing factor.
He gets to a hydraulic bolt gun and fires,
piercing the weakened skin. The soldier begins
to overload with energy; Ryking still insists he
doesn't know how Xavier got hold of the
Xavier File. Maverick follows his hateful
orders, shoots another bolt, and kills them
both.
Issue: X-Men II:12
Date: Sep-92
Story: Broken Mirrors (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Beast,
Wolverine, Rogue,
Psylocke, Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Val Cooper
Villains: Sauron, Toad, Pyro, Blob (as holograms);
Carter Ryking
Other Characters: John, Wilcox; Blackwell; Bill,
Charles Jaco
Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils & Inks: Art Thibert, Dan Panosian,
Trevor Scott
Letters: Tom Orzechowski
Colors: Rosas, Javins
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: The Ryking Hospital near Las Cruces, New
Mexico, is "the Betty Ford Clinic for rich
super folks." The staff scramble to sedate
Carter as he has another seizure; he is a
mutant, hospitalized since childhood. He had
see CNN report of his father's death.
Rogue takes a swim, and Remy wants to talk
about his wife. She's not sure how she feels.
Hank drives Betsy to the airport; she's visiting
England. Scott observes, and frustrated,
smashes a picture of Jean.
Xavier has Jubilee training in the Danger
Room against second-string villains. Blob
catches and kisses her, then Logan puts a claw
through his brain. He's angry with Xavier for
keeping a top-secret file from him; Xavier is
angry at Logan's invasion of his privacy.
Logan apologizes but still wants answers.
Carter blasts free of the hospital, destroying
the interns who try to taser him. He goes to
find out what his father did to him.
The file concerns his father's work, in 1964,
saying he was researching mutations. Xavier
recently received it anonymously and isn't
convinced it's true.
Xavier goes to Alexander Ryking's funeral in
Sioux Falls; Carter flies in, kills the guards
who pull guns, and says his father was evil.
Xavier links with him telepathically; they had
been boys together. Carter says he sent Xavier
the file. Xavier sees he has gone mad but
agrees to go to Alamogordo with him. The X-
Men see the news reports and confer with Val.
Issue: X-Men II:13
Date: Oct-92
Story: Hazardous Territory (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cyclops, Beast,
Wolverine, Rogue,
Jubilee, Gambit
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Cannonball
Villains: Carter Ryking; Stryfe and the Mutant
Liberation Force: Zero, Rusty Collins, Skids
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils & Inks: Art Thibert, Dan Panosian
Letters: Lois Buhalis
Colors: Rosas, Javins
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: Brian Xavier, Kurt Marko, and Alexander
Ryking worked together at Alamogordo, and
two of their sons became mutants (and the
other a big bully). Carter wants to know why,
so he takes Xavier to the abandoned base. He
is angry Xavier didn't believe the file he sent
him, and blasts a wall to reveal a hidden
staircase.
The X-Men arrive, and Logan tracks Xavier.
Rogue tries to help, considering his recent
mental problems, but he just gets angry. He
expects to find answers on this base, too. They
find the hidden subbasements; Scott, Remy,
and Hank arrive to find Carter holding Xavier,
Logan, and Rogue.
Cannonball (having just lost Cable, X-Force
15) calls the mansion, interrupting Jubilee's
bubble bath, then doesn't leave a message.
Rusty and Skids, working for Stryfe, recover a
scroll with Egyptian writing and a picture of
Apocalypse.
The X-Men are uncoordinated, trying to
capture Carter, while Xavier and Hank say
they should just talk to him. Scott blasts the
tasers he has attached to his arms; without
them, he can't control the release of his
energy. The X-Men are about to flee, but
Xavier won't abandon him. He tries to control
him telepathically, but his power explodes,
destroying the base but leaving the epicenter
unharmed.
Logan questions Carter, but Xavier says they
found nothing in the base and suggests they
investigate elsewhere.
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