Era #8 Extra: Flashback

Marvel Comics gave their Silver Age fans a little nostalgic gift throughout July 1997. Every title took the month off from their normal stories to give readers an untold flashback tale with art that often paid homage to the classic Marvel house style of Jack Kirby. Each Flashback issue was given a number of minus one "-1" and featured Stan Lee as the narrator.

It was a fun distraction, and the creators were able to plant Easter Eggs and even a few clues to their current runs. I missed Excalibur somehow, but I picked up the rest of the X-Books.

Cable (Minus One) - "The Devil's Herald" It is Cable's first trip to our time. He arrives on Muir Island where he meets Dr. Moira MacTaggert and her young ward Rahne Sinclair. The mysterious man from the future learns to speak English, and he quickly discovers the intolerance of being a mutant thanks to Reverend Craig.

Generation X (Minus One) - "The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship!" Young Emma Frost begins to use her new mutant powers of telepathy at the infamous Hellfire Club. She strolls the gala floor stealing insider information from legendary members such as Harry Leland. She eventually runs into Dark Beast recently from the Age of Apocalypse without his memory. He takes her to his underground lair in deep in the tunnels (future home of the Morlocks), but NYC Detective Sean Cassidy races to save her.

Uncanny X-Men (Minus One) - "The Boy Who Saw Tomorrow!" Rachel Summers returns to our time as the Mother Askani. She is in pursuit of a rogue member named Sanctity who is the lost daughter of the Bolivar Trask. She hopes to stop him and her brother, Larry Trask, from creating Master Mold. The first Sentinel is nearly complete in their lab, but she manages to secretly implant a file labeled "The Twelve".

Wolverine (Minus One) - "A Whiff of Sartre's Madeleine!" The Hudsons (future Vindicator and Guardian of  Alpha Flight) send their friend to the US for answers about his adamantium implants. His arrival draws the attention of Victor Creed (Sabretooth), Hydra, SHIELD, and the Black Widow.

X-Factor (Minus One) - "A Summers Tale" Stub

X-Force (Minus One) - "Brothers Proudstar" John Proudstar (the original Thunderbird) returns home from a tour with the Marines and reunites with his family to include his little brother, James (Warpath). His mother is diagnosed with cancer, but a local journalist, Michael Whitecloud, is investigating the reservation's oncology center. The brothers join their friend in looking for more information about the center's true purpose.

X-Man (Minus One) - "Breeding Ground" The Age of Apocalypse Sinister awakens his proudest achievement -- Nate Grey. The dark geneticist teaches the young mutant some valuable lesson before returning powerful mutant weapon back into the development chamber.

X-Men (v2)  (Minus One) - "I Had a Dream" Professor X attempts one last time to talk Magneto out of committing any crime on behalf of mutants. Amelia Voght transports Professor to the concentrate camp Magneto was held as a child. Magneto arrives with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (neither are yet aware of their relationship to Magneto). It is their final conversation before the Cape Citadel event in X-Men #1 (1963).