Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix
| The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix | |
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Cover of the 1st issue
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Mini-series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | May – August 1994 |
| Number of issues | 4 |
| Main character(s) |
Cyclops Jean Grey |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Scott Lobdell |
| Penciller(s) | Gene Ha |
| Inker(s) |
Al Vey Terry Austin Josef Rubinstein Mark Pennington Bill Anderson Al Milgrom |
| Letterer(s) | Richard Starkings |
| Colorist(s) | Kevin Somers |
| Editor(s) | Bob Harras |
| Collected editions | |
| The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix | ISBN |
The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix was a four-issue comic book mini-series written by Scott Lobdell, drawn by Gene Ha, and published by American company Marvel Comics in 1994. It revealed much of the back story for the character Cable, much of which had been implied before, but was still shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. The series' title characters are two of the founding members of the X-Men, a group of superpowered mutants dedicated to confronting the bigotry that afflicts their people, and stopping mutants with evil motives. They have regular adventures which fall into almost every subgenre of science fiction imaginable, including frequent encounters with time travel.
Holocaust's name was mentioned by Apocalypse in issue #4, a year before the character made its first actual appearance (first referred in Stryfe's Strike Files) in the Age of Apocalypse story arc.
Shortly after Jean Grey (Phoenix) was believed dead, Cyclops (her longtime love interest, real name Scott Summers) met a woman who was almost her exact duplicate named Madelyne Pryor. Unbeknownst to either of them at the time, Madelyn Pryor was a clone of Jean Grey, created by Mister Sinister. Sinister was given vast powers by the virtually immortal mutant Apocalypse, but he feared Apocalypse's power and began to investigate a means to defeat him. He discovered that the combination of Summers and Grey's DNA would produce a mutant of sufficient power to do this. With Jean Grey apparently dead, and Sinister for some reason unable to combine their DNA artificially, he created Madelyne Pryor and positioned her to make contact with Cyclops. His plan worked: the two married and had a child, whom they named Nathan Christopher Summers.
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