Paul Bourcier wrote:
If so, my calendar notes would place the X-Men in XVH 1 between UX 181 and 183, which works.
Those issues are the immediate aftermath of the first Secret War for the X-Men. Where does the team meet the Hulk?
In #181 (May, 1984), Colossus, Lockheed, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Rogue, Storm and Wolverine return to Earth in some spot close to Tokyo. Cyclops was instead returned to Tahiti where he was spending his honeymoon with Madelyne Pryor. "Storm asks Rogue to return to the States while the X-Men stay in Japan." Storm wants to find out what happened to Kitty Pryde during their absence. "Xavier also ask her [Rogue] to get news about Cyclops and the New Mutants."
In #182 (June, 1984), there is a spotlight issue for Rogue. She flies from Tokyo to the Xavier Mansion. She checks the answering machine and listed to a message by Madelyne seeking her husband during the Secret War, another informing them of Michael Rossi being arrested while performing unsupervised research in SHIELD's Hellicarrier. Carol Danver's personality then takes over and goes off to save her former mentor and lover. Rogue fails to listed to a message by Illyana Rasputina concerning Kitty being captured by Emma Frost. That same issue, Frost reports to Sebastian Shaw about converting the New Mutants to the newest Hellions recruits.
In #183 (July, 1984), the X-Men are back at the Xavier Mansion, including Kitty. Colossus has been avoiding her for a while and finally confesses about falling in love with Zsaji during the Secret War. He ends his relationship with Kitty. Storm tries and fails to get Rogue to open up to her. Rogue thinks she is going crazy and has lost faith in anyone at the Xavier Mansion being able to help her. Storm ponders that everything is going sour with both Rogue and Kitty. She comments on Xavier having left for the weekend with the New Mutants, unavailable to help. However Illyana is still at the Mansion, comforting Kitty. Kitty then leaves the X-Men for a scheduled "two weeks" recuperation. Wolverine and Nightcrawler get Colossus to Manhattan for a "chat" concerning his relationship to Kitty. Piotr gets slightly drunk and provokes the Juggernaut to a fight with him. Cain was simply looking for a peaceful night out and is disgusted with "heroes" interfering with it. Unknown to him his date for the night was Selene looking for a victim. Logan finally dismisses Piotr as an insensitive, egocentric brat, the seeming point of the episode.
If the X-Men meet the Hulk in the vicinity of New York, the period between #182 and #183 would be the logical spot for placement. Any particular mention to the states of mind of Kitty and Rogue?
Jason Doty wrote:Storm doesn't have a mohawk in this comic. So it has to be before they go to Japan.
Storm gets her mohawk in the already mentioned "Uncanny X-Men" #173 (September, 1983), returning to the team for the wedding ceremony of Wolverine and Mariko Yashida, following "a week" of absence somewhere in Japan. Wolvie has minimal interaction with Lockheed prior to this point. The dragon simply snarls at him in #172 (August, 1983). Kitty has to explain to him that Logan is a friend.
What kind of interaction do the two have in the one-shot?
Jason Doty wrote:For Wolverine this would take place inbetween pages of Wolverine Limited series no.1.
Not an ideal placement. "Wolverine" vol. 1 #1 (September, 1982) opens with Wolverine tracking down a bear in the Canadian Rockies. The bear had killed "seven men, three women, and five kids". Wolverine finds and kills the bear. He discovers the bear had an illegal barbed point, coated with poison in it. It failed to kill it but drove it crazy. Wolvie then tracks down the hunter responsible to Coalspur, "fifty-seven miles away in a straight line from the bear’s den". He beats the guy up and delivers him to the local authorities. He then returns to the Xavier Mansion, finding all his letters to Mariko Yashida returned. He fails to reach her through either the Japanese embassy in the United States or the phone of her home in Tokyo. The following day, Wolvie leaves from Kennedy airport for a flight to Tokyo. The only stop mentioned for the flight is Anchorage, Alaska.
The implication seems to be that Wolvie stays at the Mansion for less than a day. No interaction with the other X-Men is mentioned. Already quite a few tales have been placed between pages. That must have been one long day.
Michael wrote:In any case, the X-Men only find out that Lockheed followed Kitty home in Uncanny 168. So that means this has to take place after Uncanny 168.
In the opening of "Uncanny X-Men" #168 (April, 1983), Wolverine leaves for a vacation in the Canadian Rockies, set up for his first mini-series. Several days later, Christmas Eve, Kitty discovers Lockheed. Colossus is the second X-Man to see the dragon. Professor X is the third and wonders if the dragon can eat him, unclear if he is sarcastic or not. Not sure when Lockheed was introduced to the others. He is not supposed to meet Wolvie until #172.