X-Men Vol 1 137

Part of the Dark Phoenix Saga storyline
X-Men #137
Previous Issue	X-Men #136
Next Issue	X-Men #138
Art by: John Byrne
Cover Date	September, 1980
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Jim Shooter
Publisher	Marvel Comics

1. "The Fate of the Phoenix!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Chris Claremont John Byrne
Penciler(s)	John Byrne
Inker(s)	Terry Austin
Letterer(s)	Tom Orzechowski
Editor(s)	Jim Salicrup Louise Jones

Appearing in "The Fate of the Phoenix!"

Featured Characters:

• The X-Men
  •  Colossus (Peter Rasputin) 
  •  Cyclops (Scott Summers) 
  •  Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) 
  • Phoenix (Jean Grey) (Death)
  •  Professor X (Charles Xavier) 
  •  Storm (Ororo Munroe) 
  •  Wolverine (Logan) 

•  Angel (Warren Worthington III) 
•  Beast (Hank McCoy) 

Supporting Characters:

• Araki
• Empress Lilandra Neramani

Adversaries:

• The Imperial Guard
  • Earthquake (First appearance)
  •  Gladiator 
  • Hussar 
  • Manta (First appearance)
  • Nightside
  •  Oracle 
  • Smasher
  •  Starbolt 
  • Tempest
  • Warstar 

• Raksor, a Skrull warrior (First appearance)
• Bel-Dann (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• R’Klll, Empress of the Skrull
• Recorder
• Kree  Supreme Intelligence 
•  Uatu the Watcher 

• Unnamed Shi'ar citizens
• Unnamed Skrulls
• Unnamed alien attendees
• Unnamed Skrull Grand Vizier

Locations:

• Blue Area of the Moon
  • Uatu, the Watcher's domicile
• D'Bari - (Only in flashback)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, ver. 2

Vehicles:

• Lilandra's Shi'ar Flagship
• Shi'ar warship - (Only in flashback), (Destroyed in this issue)

Synopsis for "The Fate of the Phoenix!"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• Wolverine stumbles upon the Watcher's abode.
• The structures on the Dark Side of the Moon will serve as Apocalypse's moon base much later.
• This is a "double-sized" issue.
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.

Trivia

• Originally, this issue was intended as the canonical death of Jean Grey. However, Jean Grey would return in Avengers #263, and it would be established later that Grey and the Phoenix Force were two separate entities. This is the first time that a major Marvel Comics super-hero is killed on-panel (not counting Bucky Barnes, whose death, at the time, was revealed via retcon). The death of Jean Grey predates the death of Captain Marvel by two years.
• Jim Shooter forced pages 30-35 of this issue to be rewritten. The original version had Jean Grey's mutant power "brain-center" being lobotomized and this was changed out with the suicide version instead. The original version is shown in Phoenix: The Untold Story Vol 1.

See Also

• 2 reprint(s) of X-Men Vol 1 137

Recommended Reading

• This is the end of the "Dark Phoenix Saga". The plot covers the issues X-Men #129 through #137.
• The fight between the Kree and Skrull warrior continues for several years and climaxes in Fantastic Four Annual #18.

Links and References

• Uncanny X-Men at Wikipedia.org
• Uncanny X-Men at Marvel Subscriptions
• Uncanny X-Men series index at Comicbookdb.com
• Uncanny X-Men series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• Uncanny X-Men series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• Uncanny X-Men at the Complete Marvel Reading Order

• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 06/29/2009
• The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #7 - See for further referencing
• The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men Vol 2 #3 - See for further referencing