Uncanny X-Men #385

Cover: Salvador Larocca (pencils) Art Thibert (inks)

Title: Shell Game (23 pages)

Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: German Garcia, Michael Ryan & Randy Green
Inks: Dan Panosian, Pepoy & Ketcham
Colors: Richard Isanove
Letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Albert, and Saida Temofonte
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor in Chief: Bob Harras

Feature Characters: Gambit (next in flashback in Gambit Vol 3 #24, then in Gambit #17, then in Gambit #19, then in Gambit 2000, then in Gambit #20-21, then in flashback in X-Men #107), Phoenix IV, Cable (next in Cable Vol 2 #84, then in X-Men #105), Storm, the Beast (all last in X-Men #104)

Guest Stars: Wolverine, Rogue, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Thunderbird III, Colossus, Archangel (all inbetween X-Men #104 & 105), Forge (behind the scenes)

Villains: The Goth, Beldame (both last in X-Men #104), Sanguine, Wanderer (both last in X-Men #103; last four as the Goth); Killian, Broadside, Sea Dogs (all last in X-Men #104), Bloody Bess (as the Crimson Pirates); Tullamore Voge and his hounds

The captured X-Men, Bloody Bess and Beldame arrive in Madripoor to collect slaves, trusting Gambit's idea to go along with them. The other X-Men arrive and the two teams battle, with the captured mutants winning. They are taken to the Slaver's huge complex in an ancient city in Northern China. Phoenix who has used her mutants powers to make them think she had been captured knocks out Voge and frees the Beast. By linking up with Forge the Beast is able to free the X-Men from their slave collars. The free X-Men attack the slavers but the mutant energys power up The Goth and Rogue, having absorbed Gambit's powers, hits him with a card that overloads and kills him. The X-Men free the captives but Rogue is left saddened by what she had to do to in order to win.

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