Comics:X-Men Vol 1 64

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I...I will, my uncle! I shall avenge the incalculable wrong done my people, in this place, these many years ago! I shall smite the eternal enemy...humble him...with all the vast powers at my command! So do I Shiro Yoshida swear!

-- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)

Appearing in "The Coming of Sunfire!"

Featured Characters:

• X-Men

• Cyclops (Scott)
• Marvel Girl (Jean "Jeanie")
• Angel (Warren)
• Beast (Henry "Hank" C. McCoy)
• Iceman ("Bobby")

Supporting Characters:

• Saburo Yoshida - (First appearance), (Death)

Villains:

• Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) - (First appearance), (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Tomo Yoshida - (First appearance), (Appears in flashback and main story), (Death)

Other Characters:

• Bill and Fred (pilots)
• Unknown New Yorkers
• Unknown Hiroshima victims - (Appearance in flashback only)

Locations:

• New York

• New York City

• Manhattan

• X-Men's Midtown Apartment Headquarters

• United Nations
• JFK Airport

• Washington, D.C.

• Capitol Building

• Japan - (Appearance in flashback only)

• Hiroshima - (Appearance in flashback only)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, version 1
• Mini-Cerebro

Vehicles:

• Sentinel's Ship
  
  

Synopsis for "The Coming of Sunfire!"

The X-Men battle Sunfire, a Japanese nationalist terrorist who plans to destroy Capitol Hill in revenge for the bombing of Hiroshima, at the behest of his racist uncle Tomo. Sunfire has a change of heart after Tomo kills his father Saburo.

Notes

• Don Heck is given a front-page credit by the editors for "pinch-hitting" for Neal Adams on this month's story and promises that Neal will be back next month.
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

Trivia

• Hank inadvertently calls Angel, "Scottie".

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Recommended Reading

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Links and References

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