—MagikI really suggest you cooperate. To coin a phrase, we really do have ways of making you talk.
Appearing in "Meanwhile, Back at the Mansion..."
Featured Character(s):
Supporting Characters:
- Guido (First appearance)
- ⏴ Lila Cheney ⏵
- ⏴ Dazzler (Ali Blaire) ⏵
- ⏴ Magneto (Magnus) ⏵
- ⏴ Captain Lee Forrester ⏵
Antagonists:
- The Gladiators
- Karma (Xuân Cao Mạnh) (Possessed by Shadow King)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed passengers
- Unnamed kidnappers
- Lucinda Guthrie (Referenced)
- ⏴ S'ym ⏵
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Astral Projection)
- Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy) (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed Angelenos
- George Lucas (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Devil (Invoked)
- Thomas Magnum (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Poltergeist (Mickey Silk) (Mentioned)
- Link (Lorne Lincoln) (Mentioned)
- Beyonder (Referenced)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- Nazgul (Named only)
- "Hobbit" Hobbins (Mentioned)
- LAPD (Mentioned)
- Unnamed slaves of the Shadow King
- Attendees of the Gladiator game
- Indiana Jones (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Westchester County
- White Plains (First appearance)
- Westchester County Airport (First appearance)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, North Salem (Referenced)
- Salem Center High School (Mentioned)
- White Plains (First appearance)
- Westchester County
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles
- Hollywood
- Heartbreak Hotel (Mentioned)
- Downtown Los Angeles (Referenced)
- Malibu
- Lila Cheney's home
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles County
- New York
- United States of America
- Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- Nova Roma, Maderia, Brazil, South America (Mentioned)
- The Coliseum (Mentioned)
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Earth
- A Dyson sphere, Lila's real home
- Solar System
- Limbo
Synopsis for "Meanwhile, Back at the Mansion..."
Cannonball and Magik are chasing people who kidnapped Magma and Sunspot. The kidnappers get away with the unfortunate mutants, but Cannonball and Magik get a prisoner. Illyana tries to teleport them to the location of their friends based on their prisoner's information but misses by a week. So Sam takes them to see Lila Cheney to get some help. In the Bermuda Triangle, Lee Forrester and Magneto makeup, and get a warning from Professor X about the Beyonder. Illyana, Sam, Lila, and Allison go to a Gladiator bout and interfere. Everything seems to be going according to plan when Magneto arrives suddenly and asks everyone who would come with him.
Notes
- This issue is a prelude to the crossover event, Secret Wars II.
Trivia
- This issue is the first appearance of Guido who will later be known as Strong Guy in the X-Factor series, of which Wolfsbane is also a member of.