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Issue: The Uncanny X-Men #281
Publication Date: October 1991
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Issues: #281 of 405 Issues (961 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing, Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 CAD
£0.65 GBP
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagGli Incredibili X-Men #51 published September 1994 as Alleanza disperata [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagX-Men: Bishop's Crossing #[nn] published January 2016
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Wraparound
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Inks over pencils; colors and masting yet to be added. From the collection of Allen Bush.
 
Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Desperate Alliances!

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel; Sentinels
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagX-Men: Bishop's Crossing #[nn] published January 2012
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]recolored; new trade dress; new promo text on back cover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound Cover

Source for letters credit is The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Ward 1994).
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Fresh Upstart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): X-Men [Storm; Jean Grey; Colossus; Iceman; Archangel]; Gateway (guest); Trevor Fitzroy (villain, 1st); Sentinels (villains); Donald Pierce (villain); Lady Deathstrike (villain); Cylla (villain); Reavers [Bonebreaker; Murray Reese; Pretty Boy; Wade Cole; Angelo Macon] (villains); White Queen [Emma Frost] (villain); Hellfire Club (villain); Shinobi Shaw (villain); Hellions [Roulette; Tarot; Empath; Catspaw; Beef (death); Jetstream (death)] (villains)
Synopsis: X-Men Gold Team is formed. Trevor Fitzroy of the Upstarts sends Sentinels to slaughter Donald Pierce and the Reavers as well as the White Queen and the Hellions (and doesn't do a shabby job of taking out both).
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagGli Incredibili X-Men #51 published September 1994
In Issue: FlagX-Men: Bishop's Crossing #[nn] published January 2012
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: 1st Mention of the "Upstarts"--a band of bad guys who gather points by killing mutant super-folk.

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