Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 274

Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #274 Published March, 1991 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Jim Lee Scott Williams "Crossroads" Writer Chris Claremont Jim Lee Penciler Jim Lee Inker Scott Williams Colourist Joe Rosas Letterer Pat Brosseau Editor Bob Harras Suzanne Gaffney Previous Issue Next Issue Uncanny X-Men #273 Uncanny X-Men #275

Appearing in "Crossroads"

Featured Characters:

• Rogue

Supporting Characters:

•  Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr)  (Main story and flashback)
•  Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder) 
• Zabu
• X-Men
  • Storm (Ororo Munroe)
  • Wolverine (Logan)
  • Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
  • Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
  • Jubilee (Jubes Lee)
  • Gambit (Remy LeBeau)
  • Forge
• Lila Cheney
• Guido
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Director Nick Fury
  • Unnamed soldiers
• X-Factor
  • Cyclops (Scott Summers)
  • Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)

Antagonists:

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

Other Characters:

• Trish Tilby (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Colonel Yuri Semyanov
• Unnamed protesters, scientists and reporters
• President George Bush, Sr.
• Various dinosaurs
• Unnamed Swamp Men
• Unnamed Russian soldiers
• Anya Eisenhardt (Mentioned)
• Shanna the She-Devil (Mentioned)
• Lorna Dane (Mentioned)
• Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants
• Shi'ar

Locations:

• Punta Arenas (First appearance) (On-screen)
• Antarctica
  • Savage Land
    • Magneto's citadel
• New York
  • Westchester County

Vehicles:

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
• U.N. supply planes & helicopters
• Russian gunships
  
  

Synopsis for "Crossroads"

Zaladane has erected six towers in the Savage Land and is now in sync with earth’s magnetic field. With her magnetic powers she has scrambled all communication within the Savage Land, and the effects of her mad quest for power are already felt far away, as Argentina was hit by a massive earthquake. SHIELD has sent in Nick Fury and a team of agents, but most of them perished with their chopters down because of such electro-magnetic pulse neutralizing all electronics, and then rocks hurled from an air-cavalry of pterasaurs. Magneto and Rogue have allied up with Ka-Zar but they don’t fare much better. Apparently something went wrong when Magneto reintegrated her bio-matrix, as she is only a shadow of her former self. Her absorption power doesn’t work and she is only slightly stronger than an average person. Magneto finds himself in a moral conflict, he knows that there is only one way to stop Zaladane, but killing her would surely end his beginning relationship with Rogue. Meanwhile the X-Men have been teleported to Shi’Ar space by Lila Cheney. Immediately they get captured by Deathbird who wants them to kill Charles Xavier.

Notes

• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]

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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 11/10/2009
• The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men Vol 2 #5 - See for further referencing

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