With World War Hulk in full swing, and with this week's release of the WWH: X-Men miniseries, my OLD SCHOOL! contribution to the cosmic throwdown that is FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS! takes a look back at the first meeting between Xavier's pupils and 'ol Jade Jaws! So without further ado.... HERE COMES THE PAIN!!!!!:
This issue begtins with the X-Men gathered around Prof. Xavier's bedside, as he has succumbed to "the strain of his hard-won victory over the star-spawned Z'NOX!" (Yes the "Prof. Xavier is down so what do we do now" card was in use even back then!) Marvel Girl uses her limited telepathy to delve into Xavier's mind to find out who can help his condition. The answer is.... you guessed it... THE HULK.... or more accurately his alter ego of Bruce Banner. They take off to find him after seeing a news story of the jade giant's last location and that's when the battle begins!
Marvel Girl manages to cause the Hulk to revert to Bruce Banner, who tells the X-Men that there is a device to help their mentor in one of his old hidden Labs. Of course the Army shows up led by Major Glenn Talbot, and Banner Hulks out and the X-men fight him yet again!
In the end, Angel swoops in and gets the device out of the lab, and they save Prof. Xavier so that they can all fight for Mutant equality in the Marvel Universe. Only the wonderful readers were going to be denied the pleasure of reading these adventures, as this little missive from the editors showed up in the letters page:
The X-Men won their battle with the Hulk, but lost the ultimate comic book battle! Yup, the last issue of X-Men, hard to believe that in the day of mutliple mutant books, that the X-Men were felled by low sales!
*More OLD SCHOOL! madness next week, until then: worship the Urban Master of the Power Cosmic and the other FNF combatants of Round 2.
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