X-Men Vol 2 2

X-Men Vol 2 #2
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Art by: Jim Lee and Scott Williams
Alternate Covers
2 - Remastered Cover
Art by: Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Thomas Mason
Release Date	September 17, 1991
Cover Date	November, 1991
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "Firestorm"
Writer(s)	Chris Claremont Jim Lee
Penciler(s)	Jim Lee
Inker(s)	Scott Williams
Colorist(s)	Joe Rosas
Letterer(s)	Tom Orzechowski
Editor(s)	Bob Harras

 I am Fabian Cortez! A mutant like yourself. Would you like a taste of my power? 

—Fabian Cortez

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.

See Also

• 9 image(s) from X-Men Vol 2 2
• 2 reprint(s) of X-Men Vol 2 2

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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