Uncanny X-Men

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Uncanny X-Men (launched as Giant-Size X-Men in 1975) is a comic book published by Marvel Comics.

Contents 1 Issue 98 2 Issue 101 3 Issue 137 4 Issue 162 5 Issue 168 6 Issue 169 7 Issue 287 8 Issue 330 9 Issue 337 10 Issue 350 11 External links

Issue 98

Jean Grey: Isn't the snow beautiful, Ororo?

Storm: In it's way, Jean...But I can't help remembering that on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the snow is...white.

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[Jack Kirby and Stan Lee see Jean Grey and Cyclops kiss passionately.]

Jack Kirby: Hey, Stan, you know who they were? I tell ya, they never used to do that when we had the book.

Stan Lee: Ah, Jack, you know these young kids -- they got no respect.

Issue 101

[The birth of Phoenix.]

Phoenix: Hear me, X-men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!

Issue 137

[The death of Phoenix.]

Phoenix:...If even one more person died at my hands... It's better this way. Quick. Clean. Final. I love you, Scott. A part of me will always be with you.

Cyclops: Jean, no. Don't! No!

[A ray gun emplacement fires, killing Phoenix.]

Phoenix: SCOTT!

Cyclops: JEAN!

Issue 162

Wolverine: I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice.

[Often misquoted as "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do isn't very nice".]

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Wolverine: I'm not an animal. I'm a man. An X-Man!

Issue 168

Cyclops: Got the ring, Alex?

Alex Summers: What's it worth to you?

Cyclops: Want to die, Alex?

Issue 169

[Madelyne stops Cyclops from falling off a floating plane into the water.]

Cyclops: It's okay, Madelyne, I can swim.

[A shark is seen below him]

Madelyne Pryor: Great, dummy -- so can he!

Issue 287

Jean Grey: Alex?! - Cable... Anyone?! - - Don't even know - transmission being received? -- taken total - taken totally unaware! Both teams - and - decimated! Mansion security was deactivated - activated... activated... deactivated from within! -- Betrayed by one of our own! Professor Xavier - was the first to die. One one left... power's negated. Our own fault, really - should never have trusted -- We knew so little about - YOU?! - may have killed the X-men... but the dream will never...

[Bright light.]

Voice off-panel: Die?

Issue 330

Magneto: I don't want to do this Charles, rather I have to. I must be strong, because you and your X-Men are too weak to do that which must be done! ....For no matter what happens to you and me, the welfare of the children is paramount. Whether they be the innocent like Illyana, Doug and Anya before them, the lost such as my Acolytes, or the misguided like the fools you count among the X-Men; they need to be protected! They need to be awakened from the dream in which you've lulled them! Whether you admit it or not, they need...MAGNETO!

Issue 337

Wolverine: Things change. People change. You. Me. Everyone o' us..... everyday of our lives. The day ya stop changin' --is the day ya die.

Issue 350

Narration: Once, long ago, what held this man together - the young Charles Xavier, a genius telepath with the simple dream of helping mutant by providing a school for them to learn how to control their powers - was his original group of students. And later, though he still cared about his school - and his all-new, all-different students - what held this man together was his love for a beautiful princess from another world. Recently, as adjectives became inadequate to describe the many souls in his school - what held this man together seemed to fall away...

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