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Issue: The Uncanny X-Men #281
Publication Date: October 1991
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Issues: #281 of 406 Issues (871 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: 2nd Printing
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: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
2 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Bob Harras (Editor); Suzanne Gaffney (Assistant Editor); Tom DeFalco (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Desperate Alliances!

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Whilce Portacio (signed)
Inker(s): Art Thibert (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; Sentinels
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound Cover

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Lee (plot); Whilce Portacio (plot); John Byrne (script)
Penciller(s): Whilce Portacio
Inker(s): Art Thibert
Colorist(s): Joe Rosas
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): 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)]
Synopsis: 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).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: 1st Mention of the "Upstarts"--a band of bad guys who gather points by killing mutant super-folk.

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