Issue Description

Colossus has been having visions of his sister in terrible danger. The metal mutant heads to limbo to check up on her.

Peter has nightmares about Illyana. The X-Men decide it's okay for him to go to her, even though it may blow their cover. He appears right before she completes a necromantic spell that would have totally corrupted her. He decides to pretend to be the summoned shade of himself. It seems that a demon posing as Baba Yaga has the New Mutants and is going to eat them. Colossus, being cold iron, has little trouble kicking the snot out of her, and S'ym as well. He goes home, but not before reassuring Illyana that it's her actions that define her as good and not her evil nature as the Darkchilde.

Synopsis

Colossus's dream: Magik dresses for the biggest night of her life. She looks royal. An apple is placed in her mouth and she is gleefully shoved into a large stove.

Colossus pummels the Australian desert in frustration. Rogue tries to cheer him up but he prefers to be alone. She touches him and is nearly burned, as the Australian sun has heated Colossus's metal body. She leaves and Colossus picks up a picture of Magik, which is soon engulfed in fire from the heat from his body. He laments the cruel fate that has made him a metal man but is soon cooled off with a rain storm curtesy of Storm. She approaches her friend and confronts him about his troubles. He admits that Magik is on his mind and he fears she may be in danger. Storm is sympathetic, but also must prevent Colossus from acting on his brotherly urges since the X-Men are supposed to be dead.

At the house, Wolverine tries to help Colossus adapt to his metal body while doing dishes. It does not go well. The rest of the team senses Colossus's turmoil and Storm finally admits that he should be allowed to leave. Gateway enters the house and beckons Colossus to follow him. Colossus steps through a portal.

Colossus steps through and finds that he has entered Limbo at the exact moment that Magik summons him. (She thinks he is dead and able to be summoned.) Colossus sees that S'ym, a demon looking to rule Limbo, is close to making his own magic mountain. Colossus rushes in and pummels S'ym into many bits, being impervious to S'ym's techno-organic virus.

Magik admits that her "summoning" of Colossus is to help her save the New Mutants. The school has been overrun by demons looking like Russian folk figures and she had just escaped the dreaded Baba Yaga. Colossus agrees to help. He arrives to find that the school is ghastly different. Baba Yaga sends some demons to deal with Colossus and runs to the kitchen with the very fattened and very cookable New Mutants. Colossus deals with the brutes and follows Baba Yaga. A doorway blocks his hulking frame and he exerts himself to return to human form. He engages Baba Yaga and gets the upper-hand by turning back to metal, becoming immune to magical effects. Baba Yaga is soon destroyed.

Magik teleports her New Mutant friends to Limbo and performs a spell to heal their bloated bodies. She then confides in her supposedly dead brother that she fears that she is a bad person. He tells her that as long as she tries to do good then she is good. She is comforted and Colossus returns to Australia. Magik returns with her friends to their school.

S'ym re-assimilates and bashes an upstart demon to pieces. He had hoped that Magik's summoning of a dead person would condemn her and destroy her. S'ym doesn't realize that Colossus wasn't dead so the spell could not be completed, saving Magik's soul. He knows, however, that Magik's inability to keep herself together is weakening the wall between Limbo and Earth and that it won't be too long before he can get revenge on Colossus.

The Uncanny X-Men (1981)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

This is a continuation of Stan Lee's and Jack Kirby's original The X-Men (Vol. 1). Beginning with issue #114 the descriptive "Uncanny" was added to the cover treatment but it wasn't until issue #142 that the volume's official name was permanently changed to Uncanny X-Men.

The title has had many creative influences over the years but Chris Claremont was probably the force that drove the title through many it its historic changes, truly bringing it from "the world strangest teens" into their new status a team of mutants fight in a "world that fears and hates them". During his legendary 15 year run he gave us character and stories such as Phoenix/Dark Phoenix, the Hellfire Club, the New Mutants, X-Factor, the Mutant Massacre, Inferno and Jubilee and numerous other historic heroes and events. This epic run ended after editorial disputes in 1991.

For the Uncanny X-Men Post-Schism, see Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 2).

Collected EditionsIssues #142-143 are collected in X-Men: Days of the Future PastUncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 3 (#154-175)Issues #168-176 are collected in From the AshesIssues #199-209 are collected in GhostsIssues #210-213 are collected in Mutant MassacreIssues #225-227 are collected in Fall of the MutantsX-Men: Inferno Prologue (#228-238)Issues #239-243 are collected in InfernoX-Men: Inferno Volume 1 (#239-240)Issues #248 and 256-258 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #265-267 are collected in Gambit ClassicIssues #268-269 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #270-272 are collected in X-Tinction AgendaX-Tinction Agenda: Warzones! (#270)Issues #273-277 are collected in Crossroads and in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues # 281-293 are collected in Bishop's CrossingIssues #294-297 are collected in X-Cutioner's Song (Hardcover)Issue #298-305 are collected in Fatal Attractions (Hardcover)Issues #308-310 are collected in X-Men: The Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix #1 - TPBIssues #316-318 are collected in Generation XIssues #320-321 are collected in LegionquestIssues #322-326 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #1 - Volume 1Issues #327-328 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #2 - Volume 2Issues #329-332 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #3 - Volume 3Issues #334-335 are collected in The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 1X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance (#346)X-Men: The Hunt For Professor X (#360-365)Deathlok: Rage Against the Machine (#371)Issues #372-375 are collected in X-Men: The ShatteringIssues #376-377 are collected in X-Men Vs. Apocalypse: The TwelveIssue #378 is collected in X-Men vs. Apocalypse: Ages of ApocalypseIssues #379-380 are collected in X-Men: Powerless!Issues #388-390 are collected in X-Men: Dream's EndIssues #391-393 are collected in X-Men: Eve of DestructionIssues #394-409 are collected in X-Men: X-CorpsIssues #410-415 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: HopeIssues #416-420 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2: Dominant SpeciesIssues #421-427 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy WarIssues #428-436 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 4: The DracoIssues #437-441 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies with AngelsIssues #442-443 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New MourningIssues #444-449 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The End of HistoryIssues #450-454 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The Cruelest CutIssues #455-461 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: On IceIssues #466-471 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: End of GreysIssues #472-474 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: First FoursakenIssues #475-486 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar EmpireIssues #487-491 are collected in Uncanny X-men: ExtremistsIssues #492-494 are collected in X-Men: Messiah CompleXIssues #495-499 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Divided We StandIssues #500-503 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Manifest DestinyIssues #504-507 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: LovelornIssues #508-512 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: SisterhoodIssues #513-514 are collected in Avengers/X-Men: UtopiaIssues #515-522 are collected in X-Men: Nation XIssues #523-525 are collected in X-Men: Second ComingIssues #526-529 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: The Birth of Generation HopeIssues #530-534 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: QuarantineIssues #535-539 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Breaking PointIssues #540-544 are collected in Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Men

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