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Cover: Jim Lee & Scott Williams
The Uncanny X-Men #256
“The Key That Breaks the Locke”
writer Chris Claremont · artist Jim Lee · inker Scott Williams · colorist Glynis Oliver · letterer Tom Orzechowski · cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams
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Cast · 28 characters
Full credits
writer Chris Claremont
artist Jim Lee
inker Scott Williams
colorist Glynis Oliver
letterer Tom Orzechowski
cover pencils Jim Lee
cover inks Scott Williams
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The Mandarin conditions Psylocke to be his assassin. Psylocke takes a mind trip courtesy of Mojo where she kills her fellow X-Men and is re-made into an Asian ninja with cybernetic eyes.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).