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Issue: The Uncanny X-Men #281
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Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 CAD
£0.65 GBP
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bob Harras (editor); Suzanne Gaffney (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagThe Uncanny X-Men #282 [Gold 2nd Printing] published November 1991 as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)] The recolored cover logo appears in blue highlighted, metallic silver ink. Some of the cover's lettering and other features have also been recolored in metallic silver.
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Cover, Wraparound
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Wraparound
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Inks over pencils; colors and masting yet to be added. From the collection of Allen Bush.
 

Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
Desperate Alliances!

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Whilce Portacio (signed)
Art Thibert (signed)
?
Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
superhero
X-Men
Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; Sentinels
Reprinting
FlagThe Uncanny X-Men #282 [Gold 2nd Printing] published November 1991
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagX-Men: Bishop's Crossing #[nn] published January 2012
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Wraparound Cover

Source for letters credit is The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994).
Fresh Upstart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Lee (plot); Whilce Portacio (plot); John Byrne (script)
Whilce Portacio
Art Thibert
Joe Rosas
Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
superhero
X-Men
X-Men [Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel]; GUEST: Gateway; VILLAINS: Trevor Fitzroy (1st); Sentinels; Donald Pierce; Lady Deathstrike; Cylla; Reavers [Bonebreaker; Murray Reese; Pretty Boy; Wade Cole; Angelo Macon]; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Hellfire Club; Shinobi Shaw; Hellions [Roulette; Tarot; Empath; Catspaw; Beef (Death); Jetstream (Death)]
X-Men Gold Team is formed. Trevor Fitzroy of the Upstarts sends Sentinels to slaughter Donald Pierce and the Reavers as well as the White Queen and the Hellions (and doesn't do a shabby job of taking out both).
Reprinting
FlagGli Incredibili X-Men #51 published September 1994
FlagX-Men: Bishop's Crossing #[nn] published January 2012
 
Miscellaneous
23
1st Mention of the "Upstarts"--a band of bad guys who gather points by killing mutant super-folk.

X-Men Blue appear in the new X-Men #1

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