Dark Phoenix Saga
Jean Grey, the Phoenix Force and the Hellfire Club: the classic X-Men story.
"The Dark Phoenix Saga" is an X-Men comic storyline by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne. It usually refers to Uncanny X-Men #129–138 (1980): Jean Grey's corruption by the power of the Phoenix and the Hellfire Club, the destruction she causes, and finally her death.
Quick Facts
- Creators
- Chris Claremont, John Byrne
- Issues
- Uncanny X-Men #129–138 (1980)
Reader's Guide
Mastermind, hoping to join the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, uses a mind-tap device made by Emma Frost, the White Queen, to project illusions into Phoenix's mind, and she helps the Club capture the X-Men. The story is one of the best-known in American superhero comics and has been adapted in X-Men: The Animated Series and, in part, in the films X-Men: The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix (2019).
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