X-Men Vol 2 2

Alternate Covers: Remastered Cover X-Men Vol 2 #2 Published November, 1991 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Jim Lee Scott Williams "Firestorm" Writer Chris Claremont Jim Lee Penciler Jim Lee Inker Scott Williams Colourist Joe Rosas Letterer Tom Orzechowski Editor Bob Harras Previous Issue Next Issue X-Men Vol 2 #1 X-Men Vol 2 #3

Appearing in "Firestorm"

Featured Characters:

• X-Men
  • Blue Team
    • Cyclops (Scott Summers)
    • Rogue
    • Gambit (Remy LeBeau)
    • Wolverine (Logan)
    • Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
    • Beast (Hank McCoy)
  • Gold Team
    • Storm (Ororo Munroe)
    • Archangel (Warren Worthington)
    • Jean Grey
    • Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
    • Iceman (Bobby Drake)
  • Professor X (Charles Xavier)

Supporting Characters:

• Forge
• Banshee
• Nick Fury
• Valerie Cooper
• Moira MacTaggert - (Main story and flashback)
• Tam Anderson - (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)

Antagonists:

• The Acolytes
  • Magneto - (Main story and flashback)
  • Fabian Cortez
  • Delgado
  • Chrome
  • Anne-Marie Cortez
  • Nance Winters
• Matsu'o Tsurayaba
• Hand assassins
• Omega Red - (Inside a casket)
• Alpha, the ultimate mutant - (Only in flashback)
• Eric the Red - (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

• Alexyev - Russian agent
• General Akhronayev - (Death)
• Ambassador Kamanev, Russian ambassador
• Charles Geoffrey (First appearance), reporter - (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Unnamed Genoshans
• Dimitri and other Russian scientists
• Proteus (Mentioned)
• Josef Mengele (Mentioned)
• Cable (Nathan Summers) (Mentioned)
• X-Force (Mentioned)

Races & Species:

• Mutants
• Humans

Locations:

• Genosha
  • Hammer Bay
• New York
  • Westchester County
    • Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
      • Danger Room
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • United Nations Headquarters
• Russia
  • Baikonur
    • Star City Cosmodrome
  • Sakhalin Islands (First appearance)
• Earth's orbit
  • Asteroid M
• Chernobyl (Mentioned)
• Washington (Mentioned)
• Israel (Mentioned)
• Auschwitz-Birkenau (Mentioned)
• Japan (Mentioned)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor
• Russian energy cannon
  
  

Synopsis for "Firestorm"

Magneto and the Acolytes defeat the Blue team of the X-Men and take them aboard Asteroid X. While Xavier tries to get through to Moira, they are both kidnapped by Magneto as well. Turns out that while Magneto was an infant and in Moira’s care, she manipulated his genetic structure, attempting to cure a possible instability of his central nervous system, suspecting that this condition had turned him into a villain. Magneto gets mad, having now to question his every decision since the procedure, angrily he makes Moira brainwash the Blue team into joining his Acolytes. The other half of the X-Men wonder how to help. The situation gets even more tense when Nick Fury reports that the U.S. and Russia have decided to launch a plasma cannon against Asteroid M.

Notes

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

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Recommended Reading

• Defenders #16 - Magneto is reduced to an infant.
• X-Men #104 - Magneto is returned to an adult.
  

Links and References

• X-Men at Wikipedia
• X-Men at Marvel Subscriptions
• X-Men series index at Comicbookdb.com
• X-Men series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• X-Men series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 12/18/2009

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