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Issue: Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780785133902
UPC/EAN: 97807851339025299975960613390100111
Price: $29.99 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 24 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Axel Alonso; Jennifer Grünwald (Collection Editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Ghost Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa] (rejoins the X-Men); Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Synopsis: The X-Men are settling into their new as-yet-unnamed headquarters in San Francisco. Storm arrives, explaining that she convinced T'Challa to let her "scope out" the team's current methods as he is helping fund them through Mutantes Sans Frontieres because she was bored in Wakanda. She arrives in time to join the team, in new street clothes designed to help them avoid anti-superhero sentiment, as they answer a call from the San Francisco police to help with a mysterious burning body. The unusual genetic code of the corpse and the notebooks found with it that describe the next destination of its killer send the team, now switched to more traditional superhero gear, to Chaparanga Beach, the graveyard of starships.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was Ghost Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Beast [Hank McCoy]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #26 [Direct Edition] published October 2008
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ghost Box Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Synopsis: The X-Men track the killer to a semi-functional spaceship at Chapanga Beach. They find the man working on something he calls a Ghost Box. After a difficult fight Cyclops orders the team out of the ship and has Storm shoot it down with lightning. Storm is distressed that Cyclops's orders might have resulted in her killing the man, but Cyclops is unapologetic. The man is still alive, but chooses death rather than revealing more about his purposes beyond referring to "the Annex".
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #26 [Direct Edition] published October 2008
was Ghost Box Part Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Lee Bermejo
Inker(s): Lee Bermejo
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was Previously in Astonishing X-Men [Reprise on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Variant Edition U.S. street date July 23, 2008, three weeks after the first printing.
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes; signed); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes; signed)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Wolverine [Logan]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #27 published November 2008
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ghost Box Part Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]; S.W.O.R.D. [Abigail Brand]
Synopsis: Puzzled by the box they retrieved at Chapanga Beach, the X-Men call in Agent Brand. She tells them it's a Ghost Box, and that it's used for travel between parallel worlds. The team also finds out that the coordinates for "Tian" from the notebook they found match a spot in China known as the Dead Five Miles, in which nothing may be detected. They go there, and discover the floating retreat of a group of mutants who apparently died on M-Day.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #27 published November 2008
was Ghost Box Part Three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Ross
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was Previously in Astonishing X-Men [Reprise on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi; Andrea Silvestri ?
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #28 published March 2009
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Andrea Silvestri did not sign the covers, but she may have been involved. Notably, Simone Peruzzi did not sign the cover either.
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Ghost Box Part Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi; Andrea Silvestri
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Synopsis: The X-Men explore Tian and find a few remaining residents with surprising information.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #28 published March 2009
was Ghost Box Part Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]; X-23 [Laura Kinney]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #25 [Direct Edition, Standard Cover] published September 2008
was Previously in Astonishing X-Men [Reprise on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 2nd Printing Variant. The picture makes X-23 look like part of the team, but there not yet been a clear indication of her post-"Divided We Stand" status.
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (signed); Andrea Silvestri (signed)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #29 [Direct Edition] published June 2009
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ghost Box Part Five

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi; Andrea Silvestri
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi; Christina Strain; Laura Martin (see notes)
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]; Forge
Synopsis: The X-Men interrogate the mutants who attacked them at Tian and decide to pay Forge a visit.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #29 [Direct Edition] published June 2009
was Ghost Box part 5 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit reads "Simone Peruzzi with Christina Strain and Laura Martin".
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Wolverine Designs

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Bianchi
Subject Matter
Feature(s): X-Men
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi ?
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #30 [Direct Edition] published August 2009
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ghost Box Part Six

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi; Morry Hollowell; Simone Bianchi
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]; Abigail Brand; Forge
Synopsis: Forge reveals his plan for dealing with the alternate dimensions of the Ghost Boxes to the X-Men.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men #30 [Direct Edition] published August 2009
was Ghost Box, Part 6 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: The ink washes credit reads "Simone Bianchi and Andrea Silvestri" while the colorist credit reads "Simone Peruzzi with Morry Hollowell and Simone Bianchi".
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi (signed)
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes; signed); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes; signed)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Wolverine [Logan]
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1 published December 2008
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Agent X-13's Report on the Emergency Annexation of Earth-616

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Alan Davis
Inker(s): Mark Farmer
Colorist(s): Rob Schwager
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]] (alternate timeline); Agent X-13; Magneto (alternate earth)
Synopsis: This appears to be an account of how Agent X-13's mission on Earth-616 (as shown in Astonishing X-Men #26) would have gone had he targeted and killed Cyclops first instead of targeting Wolverine. The X-Men rapidly fall apart, and Agent X-13's homeworld sends in "Deathlok-class Security units", which look like Sentinels. One of them had what appeared to be Magneto wired into its chest. They quickly subdued the entire world amidst a staggering loss of life, including the use of nuclear weapons. But Agent X-13 considers none of that to be his problem- he's just a field agent.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1 published December 2008
was Agent X-13's Report on the Emergency Annexation of Earth-616 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Being an Journal by Miss Emma Frost of New Portsmouth Bay in the State of New Albion [sic]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Adi Granov (painted)
Inker(s): Adi Granov (painted)
Colorist(s): Adi Granov (painted)
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): The X Society [Emma Frost (Earth-889); Scott Summers (Earth-889); Hank McCoy (Earth-889); Logan (Earth-889)]; Agent X-13
Synopsis: This story follows what would have happened if Agent X-13's request to target Earth-889, mentioned in passing the previous story, had been granted. Earth 889 is a Victorian Steampunk reality, in which Miss Emma Frost leads the X Society from her mansion in New Portsmouth (Earth 889's San Francisco). The X Society are called to investigate a burning body along the lines of the story in Astonishing X-Men #25. Using their superior aircraft, they catch up with Agent X-13, but a mishap involving his fireballs and Logan's claws cause a fatal dirigible explosion and crash. As a result, the previously respected X Society becomes hated and feared overnight, with mechanical "sentinels" posted outside of Miss Frost's mansion. Tiring of this situation, Miss Frost speculates that she may decamp to Europe, and possibly even allow Scott to marry her as he has long desired.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1 published December 2008
was Being an Journal by Miss Emma Frost of New Portsmouth Bay in the State of New Albion [sic] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The title does indeed state "an Journal" and not "a Journal". Also, there is no hyphen in "X Society".
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 [Direct Edition] published January 2009
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist division of labor based on credits to issue #1 -- this issue simply credits all three of them as "Cover Artists". Unusually, the cover is *not* signed.
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The Last Testament of Scott Summers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Inker(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Colorist(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Scott Summers; X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]] (flashbacks)
Synopsis: In a world where Cyclops decided to approach Subject X cautiously instead of letting Wolverine take him out quickly, a suicidal Scott Summers is the only X-Man surviving in a ruined mansion filled with ghosts.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 [Direct Edition] published January 2009
was The Last Testament of Scott Summers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The script in the back of this issue makes it clear that the older flashbacks were supposed to be portrayed by mixing distressed artwork from those time periods into the current art, but this was not done.
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4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Kaare Andrews
Inker(s): Kaare Andrews
Colorist(s): Kaare Andrews
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Hisako Ichiki [Armor]; Logan [Wolverine]; Hank McCoy [Beast]
Synopsis: In a world where the annexation took several years, Hisako journeys to a supposed evacuation point with a deranged Hank McCoy and a Logan who is confined to a wheelchair due to the adamantium on his legs being warped early in the fighting.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 [Direct Edition] published January 2009
was 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: There is a large numeral "4" above Logan and Hisako in the panel occupying the lower half of the first page. In the absence of any other explanation, I am assuming it is the title of the story.
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Character Designs

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi
Colorist(s): Simone Bianchi
Subject Matter
Feature(s): X-Men
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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