STORY: "...the Morlocks Take Manhattan" (22 pages)
The X-Men fight deranged Morlocks in New York. Professor X finds a disturbed telepathic Morlock child who is triggering the hysteria, and calms him down. At the mansion, Mikhail turns Iceman wholly into ice, then beats him up.

What you need to know:
Iceman gets turned entirely into ice for the first time. This is an early sighting of a recurring theme in Lobdell's Iceman stories, with various characters pointing out just how little use he's making of those wonderful powers of his. Frankly, he looks awful. The next time Lobdell uses this idea, the artist gets it right.

Comments:
See Comments for issue #291, really. Though this issue does have a memorably unpleasant scene in which Xavier simply doesn't notice that he's driven a spike through his leg, assumes that he's just caught his trousers on a spike, and tries to pull himself free... Quite how it ever got past the Comics Code, I'll never know.

 

FEATURE CHARACTERS
Professor X, Archangel, Bishop, Colossus, Jean Grey, Iceman and Storm

VILLAINS
Callisto, the Morlocks and Mikhail Rasputin
MeMe (first appearance; one of the Morlocks; dies)

OTHER CHARACTER
Brain Cell (Kevin ---; first and only appearance; a Morlocks)

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