Psylocke Psaturday is Back!: Okay, who ordered a ninja in a swimsuit?

We pretty much haven't seen hide nor purple hair of Psylocke for the past six months since she went through the Deux Ex Machina Siege Perilous, until she (literally) washes up on the shores of Uncanny X-Men #255 with that most conveeeeeeeenient of comic book maladies, amnesia.


Panels from Uncanny X-Men #255 (Mid-December 1989), script by Chris Claremont, pencils by Marc Silvestri, inks by Dan Green, colors by Glynis Oliver, letters by Michael Heisler
Luckily all that sea water hadn't washed the beautiful purple shade out of her hair, which, we should remind you here, is dyed. Anyway, say goodbye to that version of Psylocke forever, or at least as forever as you can get in a Claremont comic without her angsting about it for a page every other issue. Now and forever — she is Lady Mandarin! Which, actually, was really just a preemptive attempt by Marvel to keep CBS from capitalizing on their popular weekly tie-in TV series The Mandarin (starring Lee van Cleef) by creating a female-fronted spin-off. Eh, who am I kidding...Marvel would never use that cheesy an excuse to create a character.


Cover of Uncanny X-Men #256 (Late December 1989), pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 67: The Mandarin's Scanner

What's that, Jack? It's just called the Mandarin's Scanner? It's not called the Optic Tele-Scanner or the Visu-Largement Scanner or the Anti-Iron Man Scanner? You're letting us down in the clever double-barrelled technology names department, Jack! Of course, this story is pretty much one of Jack's final works for Marvel. So maybe he was saving all the good names for his Fourth World over at DC. Nevertheless, we present...The Mandarin's Scanner!


Panel from "Pawns of the Mandarin" in Amazing Adventures (1970 series) #3 (November 1970), script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone, letters by Artie Simek
The Mandarin, long before he was Gandhi, has a flair for an quite the obsession with visual devices. Here's his big-screen TV, similar to the FF's famed giant viewscreen in the Baxter Building.


And his assistant, "Kid" Darkseid, also has one, which has all the trademarks of a piece of consumer electronics created by KirbyCo. Not shown: the slot you have to put mega-quarters into.


Supervillainy! It don't get nowhere without kickass viewing devices!