Uncanny X-men 101

#1 Comic to Own for Phoenix Fans - “Enter the Phoenix”

It all started with Uncanny X-men 101, with Phoenix bursting forth from Jamaica Bay, changing the history of Comics forever. Phoenix’s first appearance is one of the top covers of all-time. This is the first appearance and origin issue of Phoenix.

They are taken to a S.H.I.E.L.D. orbital platform under the command of the anti-mutant activist Steven Lang, who is plotting to unleash Sentinels. The other X-Men rescue them. During the space station’s destruction, the X-Men find that their shuttle has been damaged in the fight with the Sentinels. Someone must stay at the controls and pilot the ship, while everyone else remains in the shuttle’s heavily-shielded life cell.

Knowing no one else could survive long enough to pilot the shuttle to safety, Jean uses her telepathy to learn how to pilot the shuttle and her telekinesis to block the radiation as she pilots the ship back to Earth. Her telekinetic shields give way under the onslaught of the intense radiation. The strain of holding the solar radiation at bay with her powers destroys the psychic shields Xavier placed in her mind as a child, and Jean assumes her ultimate potential as a psychic, becoming an entity of pure thought. The shuttle crashes into a bay, and Jean telekinetically reforms her body and emerges from the water of Jamaica Bay.

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