What If...?, #32 Newsstand
Published: December 1991
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Issue Contents:
What if Phoenix Had Not Died?
Featuring Phoenix
Characters
- Phoenix
- Cyclops
- Magneto
Credits
- Pencils: Adam Street
- Inks:
Story Notes
Cover is an homage to the cover of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #136
What if Phoenix Had Lived?
Featuring Phoenix
Storyline
The Shi'ar give Jean Grey a psychic lobotomy, cutting her off from the Phoenix force and her own mutant powers. Jean, now a normal human, leaves the X-Men and marries Scott. Magneto abducts her to Asteroid M and offers to reconnect her to the Phoenix force but she refuses. She returns to earth and has a daughter named Rachel. While Scott is off fighting the Secret Wars, Jean is accosted by Mastermind whose body is hosting the Shadow King. Jean is shot by the Shadow King who vows to use baby Rachel as his host body. As she is dying, Jean remembers that she is just a copy of the real Jean Grey.
Characters
- Phoenix
- X-Men [Cyclops
- Nightcrawler
- Colossus
- Storm
- Wolverine]
- Watcher [Uatu]
- VILLAINS: Magneto
- Mastermind
- Shadow King
- Jean Grey (cameo)
- Professor X (cameo)
- Angel (cameo)
- Beast (cameo)
- Kitty Pryde (cameo)
- Lilandra (cameo)
- Dr. Doom (cameo)
- Arcade (cameo)
- The Brood
- Wendigo
- Garokk
- Caliban
- Rachel Summers
- New Mutants [Cannonball
- Dani Moonstar
- Sunspot (cameo)
- Wolfsbane [Rahen Sinclair] (cameo)
- Karma (cameo)]
- Imperial Guard [Gladiator (cameo, flashback)
- Smasher (cameo, flashback)
- Starbolt (cameo, flashback)
- Oracle (cameo, flashback)
- Manta (cameo, flashback)]
Credits
- Script: George Caragonne
- Script: Chris Claremont
- Pencils: Adam Street
- Inks: Sam de la Rosa
- Inks:
- Colors: Renee Witterstaetter
- Letters: Janice Chiang
Story Notes
Breastfeeding panels. Story is based on X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #137. Precise inks credits supplied by Sam de la Rosa via the GCD Error Tracker.