What I Remember:

I found this comic in the back issues bin of a long-defunct comic shop, near the train station where I used to get off on my way home from school. I would spend a lot of time riding the rails from the Bronx into Manhattan and was always looking for reading material, especially anything that wasn’t my homework. I had read about the “Inferno” crossover in a Wizard and picked it up because in my mind at the time every crossover was a milestone issue. I also picked up another issue from the Inferno Saga but can’t seem to find it.

Vital Stats:

Uncanny X-Men #242 “Inferno: Part The Third, "Burn!”

Writer: Chris Claremont

Penciller: Marc Silvestri

Inker: Dan Green

Letterer: Tom Orzechowski

Colorist: Glynis Oliver

Editor: Bob Harras

Editor-In-Chief: Tom DeFalco

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Publication Date: March 1989

Cover Price: $1.50

Re-Collection Price: Unsure as I bought it as a back issue in the mid-1990s

What Happens:

Previously in the X-Men, the original X-Men have formed X-Factor, leaving a new team of recruits to take over the X-Men. Cyclops is married to Madeline Pryor, whom bore him a son, Nathanial. Two demons S’ym and N’astirh have used Illyana Rasputin, member of the New Mutants and sister of Colossus to bring Limbo to Earth, specifically the island of Manhattan! As the city’s various super teams battle the hordes of limbo, our issue begins, with Wolverine locking lips with Jean Grey?!