- "Lord Magneto, we're mutants like you! We've come to serve, to pledge our lives to your glorious cause! In mercy's name, your people need you, now more than ever! Can you abandon them? Can you deny your destiny?"
- ―Nance Winters
"Rubicon" | |
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X-Men | |
Title: | "Rubicon" |
Volume: | 2 |
Number: | 1 |
Cover price: | $1.50 |
Cover date: | October, 1991 |
Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
Credits | |
Chief: | Tom DeFalco |
Writers: | Chris Claremont; Jim Lee |
Pencilers: | Jim Lee |
Inkers: | Scott Williams |
Cover artists: | Jim Lee |
Cover inker: | Scott Williams |
Colorists: | Joe Rosas |
Letterers: | Tom Orzechowski |
Assistants: | Suzanne Gaffney |
Editors: | Bob Harras |
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"Rubicon" is the title to the first issue of the second X-Men ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written by Chris Claremont and co-plotted by Jim Lee, who also rendered the interior art and cover art illustrations. It was inked by Scott Williams, colored by Joe Rosas and lettered by Tom Orzechowski. The story was edited by Bob Harras with Suzanne Gaffney as assistant editor. This issue shipped with an October, 1991 cover date and carries a cover price of $1.50 per copy (US).
Synopsis[]
A group of mutants have stolen a shuttle and are being pursued by some agents. Magneto arrives and tears their ships apart before bringing them on board Asteroid M. At the mansion the X-Men are testing the building's defenses. They split into two teams, but only Wolverine, with Psylocke's help, is able to breach them. The two different crews fight on board the asteroid until Magneto stops them. One of them, Fabian Cortez, has a suggestion for Magneto. Back at the mansion the X-Men Blue team respond to a signal that Magneto is up to something. He has raised a nuclear submarine.
The X-Men confront him, but after a brief battle he flies off with the nuclear weapons. Rogue tries to follow him to talk, but is shot down by a Russian plane. Magneto is hurt and is healed by Cortez.
Rogue is found in Genosha but is pursued by the newly formed Acolytes wanting her to join them. She disagrees and fights them, and the X-Men arrive to help her. Magneto turns up and declares that Asteroid M will be a haven for all mutantkind.
Appearances[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
Villains
Minor characters
- George H.W. Bush
- Harry Delgado
- Cannonball, Sam Guthrie (In a photograph only)
- Deke
- Cypher, Doug Ramsey (In a photograph only)
- Karma, Shan Coy Manh (In a photograph only)
- Magik, Illyana Rasputin (In a photograph only)
- Mirage, Danielle Moonstar (In a photograph only)
- Sasha
- Warlock (In a photograph only)
- Wolfsbane, Rahne Sinclair (In a photograph only)
Organizations
- Acolytes
- New Mutants (In a photograph only)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- X-Men
Races
Locations
Items
- Adamantium claws
- Cerebro
- Cyclops' visor
- Fighting staff
- Magneto's helmet
- Professor X's hover-chair
- Psychic knife
- Robots
- Skeletons
Vehicles
Powers
- Electromagnetism
- Energy projection
- Flight
- Matter transmutation
- Optic blast
- Superhuman agility
- Telepathy
- Winged flight
Miscellaneous
Notes & Trivia[]
- The X-Men were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. They first appeared in The X-Men #1 in September, 1963.
- This issue shipped with four variant covers by artist Jim Lee. One of the variants is a fold-out gatefold cover combining the images from all four covers together.
- This is the first and only appearance of Deke, who is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent; dies in this issue.