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Appearing in "Slumber Party!"
Featured Characters:
- New Mutants
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
- Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (First appearance as Mirage)
- Magma (Amara Aquilla)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
- Sunspot (Bobby Da Costa)
- Doug Ramsey (Joins team)
- Warlock (Joins team) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Magus (Illusion and hologram) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Diana, Marcie, Margo, Weezie, Rona, Jenny, Laurie, Manoli, Sheila, Ellen and other Salem Center schoolgirls
- William Lonestar (Mentioned)
- Peg Lonestar (Mentioned)
Magneto (Magnus) 
- Tom Selleck (Vision) (Topical reference)
- Michael Jackson (First appearance)
- Minerva (Referenced)
- Aquilla's mother (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Reverend Craig (Referenced)
- New York Mets (Mentioned)
- Joe DiMaggio (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
- Guthrie's grandfather (Mentioned)
- Mickey Mantle (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
- Thomas Guthrie (Mentioned)
- Babe Ruth (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
- Emmanuel Da Costa (Mentioned)
- Nina Da Costa (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Robert A. Heinlein (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
- Djinn (Illusion)
- Demon from Limbo
- X-Men (Referenced)
- Devil (Referenced)
- Elfquest (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
- Close Encounters (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Mutants
- Flock
- Technarchy (Main story and flashback)
- Gods (Referenced)
- Wolves (Referenced)
- Cats (Mentioned)
- Djinn (Illusion)
- Demons
- Vampires (Referenced)
- Robots (Referenced)
- Cows (Referenced)
- Dogs (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States
- Rome, Italy, Europe (Mentioned)
- Scotland, Europe (Mentioned)
- Ipanema, Rio, Brazil, South America (Mentioned)
- Earth Orbit
- Asteroid M (Destroyed)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Limbo (Behind the scenes)
- Tartarus (Referenced)
- Heaven (Invoked)
- Warlock's homeworld (Hologram) (Unnamed) (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Transmode Virus (First appearance)
- Soulsword
Synopsis for "Slumber Party!"
The local school girls get invited over for a slumber party at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters with the female New Mutants. In orbit, Asteroid M gets trashed by Warlock, headed for earth. Rahne socks Sam for not recognizing her when he and Sunspot knock to see if they can join. (Who would recognize her after a gaggle of teenage girls got done dressing her up?) Warlock crash lands in the swimming pond at the Xavier Institute and is carried into the lab and left for Professor X. Warlock comes to consciousness, drains some power from the wall socket, and goes looking for more palatable energy sources. Illyana and Lockheed fight it briefly, and retreat to Limbo. The other New Mutants (excluding Dani who is still recovering from injuries) go to deal with it before their guests realize something is going on. Warlock flees to the danger room and realizing that the intruder is probably scared and unfamiliar with earth; the New Mutants go and get Doug Ramsey to talk to him. Warlock's origin is revealed and he joins the school.
Solicit Synopsis
Double-sized issue! The girls invite their friends from Salem Center to Professor X's mansion for an all-night slumber party! Sounds like fun and games, right? Not when the new Warlock turns up as a gate-crasher! And he's not visiting for a pillow fight, either!
Notes
- This issue is a "double-size" issue.
- Doug Ramsey gets told he is a mutant for the first time.
- Asteroid M is destroyed, but some chunks do not fall to Earth until X-Men vs Avengers #1.
- Professor X acknowledges his lack of knowledge about magic as a limitation on his training the teenage Magik. As an adult she regrets never receiving formal sorcerous education when younger,[1] only having begun training with Stephen Strange as an adult after her ignorance almost kills the X-Men.[2].
- At the end of the issue there are 3 pinups that consist of Xavier's "private journal" notes::
