Comics:X-Men Vol 1 42

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He's...gone!

-- Angel

Appearing in "If I Should Die...!"

Featured Characters:

• The X-Men

• Cyclops (Scott "Scotty" Summers)
• Marvel Girl (Jean)
• Angel (Warren "Warry")
• Beast ("Hank" P. McCoy)
• Iceman ("Bobby")

Supporting Characters:

• The Changeling - (Death), (Impersonates (Professor Xavier/Dr. Hunt))

Villains:

• Grotesk - (Death)

Locations:

• New York

• Westchester County

• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

• New York subway system
• Underground laboratory

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, version 1
  
  

Synopsis for "If I Should Die...!"

Cyclops and Beast fight the Grotesk while the others are ordered by the Professor to remain in the mansion. Grotesk feels another man-made earthquake and leaves our heroes to go and investigate. Cyclops and Beast rejoin the others at the mansion, meanwhile the Grotesk breaks into the room with the device. Professor X has been using it as a lure, and psionically calls his students to him. The Grotesk gets the machine running to create a quake that will destroy the world despite Professor X's interference, and then the X-Men arrive. The X-Men hold off Grotesk while Professor X and Jean mentally disable the device, but at the last moment Grotesk gets through and mortally injures the professor!

Appearing in "The End... or the Beginning?"

Featured Characters:

• Professor X (Charles Xavier)
• Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Villains:

• The Living Diamond (Jack Winters)

Locations:

• New York

• Unnamed nuclear power plant

• Nuclear cyclotron lab

• Westchester County

• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Vehicles:

• Professor X's Rolls-Royce
  
  

Synopsis for "The End... or the Beginning?"

The continuing origin of Cyclops. Professor X and Cyclops confront the Living Diamond, stunning him, allowing Professor X access to a nearby building. The Living Diamond follows them in, and is about to attack Professor X when Scott activates a machine that ends up destroying the Living Diamond unintentionally. Scott joins Professor X at his School for Gifted Youngsters.

Notes

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

Trivia

• The Mark Twain quote Prof X is referencing in the origin story is "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

See Also

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Recommended Reading

• The first story is the conclusion of a two-part story that began last issue.

Links and References

• Mark Twain quote: http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/authors/mark-twain/