X-Men #104

Cover: Leinil Francis Yu (pencils)

Title: Painted Ladies (23 pages)

Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Leinil Francis Yu
Inks: Mark Morales
Colors: Liquid! Graphics
Letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor in Chief: Bob Harras

Feature Characters: Wolverine, Rogue, Nightcrawler (all last in Uncanny X-Men #384), Colossus, Psylocke, Thunderbird III (all next in Uncanny X-Men #385)

Guest Stars: Phoenix III, the Beast, Cable, Gambit, Storm (all in between Uncanny X-Men #384 and #385)

Supporting Characters: Archangel (next in Uncanny X-Men #385); Robert Kelly (last in Amazing Spider-man Vol.2 #20)

Villains: The Goth (first appearance), Beldame, Wanderer; Killian, Broadside, Sea Dogs (all last in Uncanny X-Men #384); Hong Kong Branch of the Hellfire Club; Mystique (last in Uncanny X-Men #380)

Guest Appearance: Kymri (last in flashback in this issue following Excalibur #17)

Cameo Appearances: Val Cooper (Mystique is disguised as her)

Flashback: On a parallel Earth, a pirate princess named Kymri's become Captain Britain, but when her world is conquered she is enslaved and becomes Killian's hound.

Note: This story continues in Uncanny X-Men #385

Wolverine, Rogue, Phoenix, Nightcrawler and the Beast barge into the Hellfire Club's Hong Kong branch. Phoenix scans the room and finds a waitress working with the slavers. Rogue absorbs Phoenix's telepathic powers then tricks the Crimson Pirates into believing they are attack all the X-Men. It is not until one of Killian's hounds, a former member of the Captain Britain Corps named Kymri, touches her do the illusions break their hold on them, and Rogue quickly flees. In the meantime the X-Men have captured the Goth teleporter Wanderer, and the Crimson Pirates's vehicles. Elsewhere, working together Storm and Gambit are able to free themselves, the other X-Men and Archangel but they are unable to remove the slaver collars. They are caught while escaping by The Goth but Gambit suggests they cut a deal.

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