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Issue: Classic X-Men #42

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Publication Date: December 1989

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Issues: #42 of 45 Issues (95 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants3

Classic X-Men #42 [Direct]

Classic X-Men #42 [Mark Jewelers]

Classic X-Men #42 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- When Dreams Are Dust [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Child of Light and Darkness [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

The Dark Phoenix Saga [Part 8]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Dark Phoenix [Jean Grey]; X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Beast]

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Professor X

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Page also includes credits.

Child of Light and Darkness

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): X-Men [Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Cyclops; Storm; Wolverine; Colossus; Nightcrawler]; Beast; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Shi'ar Grand Council [Lilandra; Araki; Tuoks'Enhaamin]; Gladiator; Edwin Jarvis; Dark Phoenix [Jean Grey]; John Grey; Elaine Grey; Sara Grey; President Jimmy Carter (cameo)

Synopsis: Dark Phoenix returns to Earth to face the X-Men and her old life. After a pitched battle with her former teammates, Jean is restored to her right mind after a furious assault by Xavier. As the team is celebrating the purging of the Phoenix force, they vanish into thin air.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The X-Men #136 [Direct Edition] published August 1980
was Child of Light and Darkness! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

When Dreams Are Dust

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Scott Summers; Dr. Robyn Hanover; Tricia Bogart; Colonel Richard Bogart; Mr. Anderson; Mr. Sinister [Nate]; Charles Xavier; Jean Grey

Synopsis: Scott thinks he is about to get adopted from the orphanage but Mr. Sinister intervenes, and the couple that tried to help Dr. Hanover figure out the mysteries of Scott's past are killed in an airplane crash.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Gli Incredibili X-Men #57 published March 1995
as Sogni come polvere [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

Notes: Though Joe Rubinstein is credited as the inker, Terry Staats confirmed via Facebook Messenger, on 24 September 2018, with Joe Rubinstein that the inker was actually Al Williamson.