Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 250

Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #250 Published October, 1989 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Marc Silvestri Dan Green Joe Rosen "The Shattered Star" Writer Chris Claremont Penciler Marc Silvestri Inker Steve Leialoha Colourist Glynis Oliver Letterer Joe Rosen Editor Bob Harras Previous Issue Next Issue Uncanny X-Men #249 Uncanny X-Men #251

Appearing in "The Shattered Star"

Featured Characters:

• X-Men
  • Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
  • Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
  • Dazzler (Ali Blaire)
  • Havok (Alex Summers)

Supporting Characters:

• Polaris (Lorna Dane)
•  Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder) 
• The Fall People
  • Chief Nereel
  • Peter
• Shanna the She-Devil (Shanna O'Hara)
• Matthew Plunder
• Gateway (Dream)

Antagonists:

• Savage Land Mutates
  •  Zaladane 
  • Brainchild
  • Gaza
  • Lupo
  • Amphibius
  • Barbarus
  • Worm (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Semyon Eduardovitch, Lasha, Vassily, Dimitri & other unnamed Russians
• Various Swamp Men
• Various Savage Land dinosaurs and animals

Locations:

• Antarctica
  • South Pole
    • Vostok 3 Russian Research Station - (Destroyed)
  • Savage Land
• Australia
  • X-Men outback hideout

Items:

• The Transmutator
• Black Lotus
• Siege Perilous - (Vision)

Vehicles:

• High Evolutionary's flying ships
  
  

Synopsis for "The Shattered Star"

Zaladane and her forces return to Antarctica and their towered fortress in the Savage Land. Havok reveals himself only to be captured. Bound and drugged to prevent him from using his powers, he is forced to watch as Zaladane steals the powers of Polaris. Dazzler, Colossus, and Psylocke arrive on the scene and are immediately ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates. After the X-Men are captured, they are brought before Zaladane. Polaris, to everyone's surprise, begins to manifest new powers of strength and invulnerability. Swiftly, she frees the rest of the X-Men and other prisoners who revolt against Zaladane. With the tower in flames, the X-Men flee the fortress in a sky-sled, only to realize that Zaladane is still alive and has activated the tower's defensive shields. Before the X-Men can decide their next move, they are teleported back to their base in Australia by Gateway, much to the concern of Psylocke who experienced the X-Men’s death in a precognitive vision.

Notes

• This issue celebrates the 250th issue of Uncanny X-Men
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

Trivia

• In this issue Havok is misnamed as "Alex Sommers", Dazzler is misnamed "Allison"

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Links and References

• Uncanny X-Men at Wikipedia.org
• Uncanny X-Men series index at Comicbookdb.com
• Uncanny X-Men (1st series) index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• Uncanny X-Men series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• Uncanny X-Men at the Complete Marvel Reading Order

• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 10/21/2009
• The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men Vol 2 #5 - See for further referencing

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