The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #153 (Jan. 1982):
“Kitty’s Fairy Tale”
by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein

The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #153

Title: “Kitty’s Fairy Tale”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1982

Publisher:
Written by: Chris Claremont
Art by: Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein

23 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Sprite (Kitty Pryde) (lead character)  Issue centers around Kitty's telling of a fairy tale, featuring fictional versions of the X-Men, including an older version of herself: "Pirate Kitty."	Jewish	Excalibur; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Exiles; X-Men		3,128
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (details)  Actual Colossus as well as fictional version "Pirate Colossus" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (details)  Actual Cyclops as well as fictional version "Noble Prince" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (details)  Actual Professor Xavier as well as fictional version "Wizard Xavier" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (details)  Actual Wolverine as well as fictional version "Fiend-With-No-Name" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  First Flight; Secret Defenders; Team X; The Avengers; The Canadian Army; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		10,615
Storm (Ororo Munroe) (details)  Actual Storm as well as fictional version "Wind-Rider" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	Goddess worship	black; Lady Liberators...  Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; The Twelve; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (details)  Actual Nightcrawler as well as fictional version "Bamf" (in Kitty Pryde's fairy tale) appear.	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Illyana Rasputin	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	The Exiles; The New Mutants		450
Carol Danvers	Protestant	Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  The Avengers; U.S. Air Force; Weapon X (Exiles)		784
Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters		[high school]		373
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Bamfs (details)  Featured in fictional tale told by Kitty Pryde.	extra-dimensional	[small blue elf-like beings; resemble Nightcrawler]		34
Bamf (details)  Bamf appears here as a fictional version of Nighcrawler in a fairy tale told by Kitty Pryde.	extra-dimensional	Bamf [looks like Nightcrawler; only "named" member of Bamf race]		12
The Fiend-With-No-Name (Mean)	extra-dimensional	[alternative dimension version of Wolverine]		6
Roak	extra-dimensional	[1st app: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #153 (Jan. 1982)]		1
Pini (cameo)	Faerie	Pini [name is reference to Elfquest creators Wendy & Richard Pini]		1
Dark Phoenix (Jean Grey) (alternative reality version)  Fictional version of Jean Grey as "Dark Phoenix" appears in Kitty Pryde's fictional fairy tale.	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Lockheed (alternative reality version)  Fictional "Lockheed the dragon" appears here BEFORE the "real" (miniature-sized) dragon appears first appeared.	alien dragon	Excalibur; Pet Avengers...  S.W.O.R.D.; X-Men		248
Phoenix (alternative reality version)  The Phoenix force features prominently in the fictional fairy tale Kitty Pryde tells Illyana. In the story, the force corrupted princess Jean Grey and turned her into Dark Phoenix.	cosmic entity	The Hellfire Club; X-Men		129
elves (on T-shirt)  Kitty Pryde wears an "Elfquest" T-shirt in this issue. The shirt features the Elfquest logo and a picture of elves from that comic book series.	Elf	[hidden race]	WaRP Graphics	127
White Queen (Emma Frost) (behind the scenes)  The X-Men are hard at work cleaning the grounds of the Xavier school, after a recent battle with the White Queen.	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men...  Generation X (teacher); The Cabal; The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle; X-Men		3,409
The Hellfire Club (behind the scenes)  In this issue, the X-Men are cleaning up the school grounds after a recent attack by the Hellfire Club, led by the White Queen.		[1st app: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (Jan. 1980)]		191
Fozzie Bear (toy)  Young Illyana Rasputin is seen holding a Fozzie Bear stuffed toy.	Christian (denomination unknown)	bear; Muppets	Jim Henson Company, etc.	203

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: “Kitty's Fairy Tale Theatre”. Webpage for The Uncanny X-Men #153 (Jan. 1982) created 25 November 2013. Last modified 3 February 2018.

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