Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 284

Uncanny X-Men #284
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Next Issue	Uncanny X-Men #285
Cover Date	January, 1992
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "Into the Void"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	John Byrne Whilce Portacio
Penciler(s)	Whilce Portacio
Inker(s)	Karl Altstaetter Art Thibert Scott Williams
Letterer(s)	Mike Heisler
Editor(s)	Bob Harras

 ...blessed goddess, I fear... we are truly doomed! 

—Storm

Appearing in "Into the Void"

Featured Characters:

• X-Men
  • Gold Team
    • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)
    • Jean Grey
    • Iceman (Bobby Drake)
    • Archangel (Warren Worthington III)
    • Storm (Ororo Munroe)
  • Professor X (Charles Xavier)
  • Forge

Supporting Characters:

• Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)
• White Queen (Emma Frost) (Comatose)
• X.S.E.
  • Bishop (Lucas Bishop)
  • Malcolm
  • Randall

Antagonists:

• Adjunct (First appearance)
• Primate (First appearance)
• Unnamed rebel from the Void (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

• Mr. Kobiashi, a Japanese technician (First appearance; dies)
• Hideko, assistant to Kobiashi (First appearance; dies)
• Mr. Tanaka, a Japanese scientist (First appearance; dies)
• Mr. Rosmenkov, a Russian scientist (First appearance; dies)
• Unnamed scientists (Death)
• Sentinels Mk VI (Mentioned)
• Hellfire Club (Mentioned)
• D'airr and K'arnak (Invoked)
• Unnamed mutants from Earth-1191 (Death)
• Fitzroy (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants

Locations:

• Earth
  • Russia
    • Sakhalin Islands
    • Siberia (Mentioned)
  • Japan (Mentioned)
    • Hokkaido (Mentioned)
      • Kuril Islands (Mentioned)
  • Somewhere in North America

Items:

• Sunfire's Solar Armor
• X-Uniforms

Vehicles:

• X-Men Blackbird

Synopsis for "Into the Void"

On the Sakhalin Islands, Sunfire meets with government officials from Japan and Russia to deal with a massive, sealed crater on the island. While investigating, Sunfire uses his powers on the cap to the crater. The crater changes into a void and knocks out Sunfire. Three figures emerge from the void and kill everyone else. Nearby, the X-Men are on their way home from their latest battle when they receive a distress call. They reach the island and engage in battle with the aliens. However, Storm realizes that the aliens are fighting to protect the crater. The aliens are defeated but one of them reveals that they were not here to kill mindlessly, but to protect the X-Men’s world from the void. With that said, the void opens and sucks in the X-Men, while Xavier and Forge escape. Meanwhile, Bishop, Malcolm and Randall begin to hunt down the criminals from the future. Unfortunately, the men have no other choice but to kill the criminals, who refuse to turn themselves in, which are all of them.

Notes

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

See Also

• 3 image(s) from Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 284
• 2 reprint(s) of Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 284

Recommended Reading

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Links and References

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• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 11/30/2009
• The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Vol. 2) #5 - See for further referencing