From: albert@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: The Annotated X-men Vol 1 (#120 - 129)
Date: 6 Apr 1992 03:19:08 GMT
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Organization: Baylor College of Medicine


	Old timers, are you tired of the newbies asking what happened 
between X-men #foo and #bar, well, no further. I too am tired of it,
so, possessed by a fit of madness, I am going to post short 
synopses of the Uncanny X-Men between #120 and the present.  
If someone wants to hang onto these for ftp purposes, please let me
know and I'll send them to you. (elmo, who does Sandman?)

	These will come out either weekly, or when I feel like it.

X-men #120:	Weapon X/Vindicator, under orders of the Canadian PM,
orders Alpha Flight to capture Wolverine.  The X-men are returning from
Japan where they fought somone named "Moses Magnum."  Shaman uses his 
weather magic to force their jet down in Calgary.  The X-men manage to
elude Alpha Flight at the airport, but Nightcrawler and Wolverine are
captured.  This is where we learn that Banshee's voice is so strained
that he cannot use his powers.  He won't regain their use until just
recently.  This is the first appearance of Alpha Flight, although
most of them are not fully shown or named until next issue.

X-men #121: Storm, Cyclops, Colossus, and the injured Banshee fight
Alpha Flight to rescue Wolverine and Nightcrawler.  They fight for 
most of the issue, until Wolverine surrenders to end the fighting.
The X-men are forced out of the country, and as soon as they clear
Canadian airspace they intend to break Wolverine out of the maximum
security whatever he was going to be put in.  Of course, when 
Cyke goes up to talk to their pilots, Wolverine is sitting there, 
casually chatting with them.  John Byrne makes a cameo in this issue.

X-men #122:  <I don't have this one>

X-men #123: The X-men are captured by Arcade, and put in Murderworld.
Colossus is confronted by an android Col Alexi Vazhin (who we 
don't meet in person for many years) and brainwashed into becoming
"The Proletairan."

X-men #124: We learn that Black Tom Cassidy & Juggernaut were the 
ones that paid Arcade to kill the X-men.  Colossus recovers, and 
the X-men escape.

X-men #125: Moria MacTaggart runs tests on Phoenix (she , Beast & Prof
X think the X-men are dead after their last fight with Magneto).
Jason Wyngarde schemes about his plot to transform Jean Grey into
"the Black Queen."  Moria discovers Proteus is missing from his
cell, and a fight results.  Beast confronts the X-men, and tells them
that Jean is alive. They call Muir Isle, and the line goes dead...
Havok, Polaris, and Madrox have cameos.

X-men #126: The X-men race to Muir Isle, and learn more about Proetus.
One of Madrox's dupes gets eaten by Proetus (who uses living bodies
as hosts, but burns them out, so he must continually get new bodies).
Phoenix has her first 'psychic flashback' to being the Black Queen
in the American Revolutionary War.  Proteus tries to use Wolverine as
a host, but fails because of Wolverine's adamantium skelleton.  
It end with a big fight between Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm,
and Proteus.

X-men #127: <I don't have this one, but Proetus manages to possess the
body of his father, Joe MacTaggart.)

X-men #128: The climax of the battle with Proetus.  Colossus manages to
disperse Proetus' energy form with his metal body.

X-men #129: The X-men return to Westchester, leaving behind Banshee,
Madrox, Polaris, Havok, and Moria.  Jason Wyngarde continues his 
psionic assault on Phoenix.  They meet Professor X, who has returned 
from his visit with Lilandra, the Sh'iar Empress.  The White Queen
appears as a member of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.  
Kitty Pryde first appears (YAY!), only 1 1/2 years younger in 1980
than she was in 1992 (Boo!).  The White Queen tries to recruit Kitty for
her Mass. Academy (home of the future Hellions), and Professor X
along with Storm, Colossus, and Wolverine try to recruit Kitty
to PXSFGY.  While the Prof talks with the parents, the X-men (all in
civies, natch) take Kitty out for a soda.  Hellfire Club agents
in armor tailored to the X-men's powers attack.  The agents are
defeated, but the White Queen zaps all the X-men with a psi-bolt.
Kitty, however, discovers her phasing power, and stows away in
the Club's hovercraft.

<More whenever I get around to it.>
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