Chamber's Turf:

Here's a list of all the places ol' Jono has been. They're pretty much in order, and I don't think I left any out.

Early GenX:

X-Men 36-37

Uncanny X-Men 316-317

Generation X made their first appearance in the Phalanx Covenant, which ran through these issues. However, since Jono doesn't actually show until GenX #1, they won't be included in this chronology.

GenX 1: "Third Genesis"
Cover: Team shot, Featuring Chamber

Jonothan Starsmore arrives at Logan International Airport in Massachusetts, at the request of one Charles Xavier. But before he can meet Generation X, the team of heroes-in-training he's supposed to join, he's attacked by a trans-dimentional genetic vampire named Emplate. Luckily, Jono is able to fend him off, and Emplate seems surprised at his ability to resist. By the time the rest of GenX shows up, Emplate decides that maybe he'd better find someone else to feed on. He departs, but not without vowing to return....

Once at the school, things have hardly gotten back to what passes as normal when another "student" arrives -- via the teleporting Gateway. He deposits a girl on the lawn and calls her "Penance." This is one of the few known times he has spoken.

GenX 2:"Searching"
Cover cameo: Team shot, featuring Penance

Banshee takes Penance to the infirmery (he discovers her razor-sharp skin the hard way), and they try to figure out what's wrong with her. Skin and Paige play scrabble (sort of), and needle Jono about standing out in the rain. He leaves, and Angelo wonders if they hurt his feeings. Midway through the issue, Penance wakes up and thinks she's being held captive. She panics and excapes onto the grounds. The team divides up into twos to try to find her -- except for Chamber. He goes off on his own, sensing that they are kindred spirits, and that eventually, she will come to him.

GenX 3:"Dead Silence"

The team finds themselves fighting against the very one they seek to help, the mysterious Penance. The kids and mentors, thoroughly beated with Paige injured and their moral low, grow increasingly brutal in their attempts to stop the abused girl. Finally, she confronts Chamber, alone, and is about to strike when...she stops. He hasn't moved a muscle. After a long moment, she lowers her hand, and sits down quietly next to him. Jubilee comments on how gutsy a move it was, and Jono replies that it had more to do with trust.

GenX 4:"Between the Cracks"
Cover cameo: "Chamber finds a butterfly!"

As most of the team tries to stop a mutant crisis at a schoolhouse in snowy Maine, Jono tries to get Penance to open up to him, this attempt centered around a plate of apples (her favorite snack). The exchange takes place in the Biosphere, where she has apparently taken up residence. Emma Frost catches Paige "spying" on them from the control booth.

In a battle at the end of the issue, the armored killer from the past few books reveals himself to be the new and improved Orphan Maker, before being thwarted by the next generation of X-Men.

GenX 5:"Don't Touch That Dial!"

M, Synch, Skin, and Jubilee all head to the Big Apple to help the White Queen on a recruiting mission. However, things go terribly wrong when the White Queen goes missing, M goes catatonic outside Rockefeller Center, and a big ugly mutant named Hemmingway attacks them at Frost Enterprises.

Back at the school, Paige gets depressed about the Legacy Virus and turns to the bottle. Gateway puts a guilt trip on Chamber, and he goes to comfort her, only to find that they have more in common than he thought.

While in New York, a guy wearing sunglasses recognizes Angelo. Skin takes him aside and proceeds to throttle him while telling him that he doesn't want anyone to know he's still alive.

GenX 6:"Notes From the Underground"

Synch finds a new use for his power, using it to track down Ms. Frost. She is being held captive by Marrow and Hemmingway, two members of Gene Nation, with the unintentional help of Leach, one of the young mutants Emma was trying to recruit. After incapacitating him (rather harshly), Frost overpowers the two would-be super-villains.

In Massechusetts, Paige discovers some of the "other" effects of alcohol. After getting cleaned up, she tries to put a move on Chamber. He gets...excited, shall we say, and loses control of his power, blowing up part of the girls' dorm.

GenX 7:"Nights and Bolts"

This story had numorous small plotlines, including: bits of Banshee's past, M's connection with Gateway, the building a treehouse, Emma's confession, and a phone call from Ireland reporting the disappearance of Castle Cassidy. In the midst of all this, Chamber kicks himself for allowing himself to lose control; he was lucky not to hurt Paige. It turns out he took the rap for the explosion, telling Banshee it was all his fault. She comes to thank him for not telling anyone what really happened, but chooses her words poorly and he assumes that she means she doesn't want anyone to know that she showed any kind of interest in such a freak.

GenX 8:"What Happened to Cassidy Keep?"

The entire team (minus Artie and Leech, of course) takes a trip to Ireland to try to figure out what happened to Castle Cassidy. They are transported to a fairy-world, where they are separated and either imprisoned, attacked, or welcomed. Chamber and Synch are the ones who get attacked, by Medieval knights. They prove that they are a great team, though, and Synch discovers that he can not only get "in synch" with someone's powers, but with their thoughts and actions as well.

GenX 9:"Someplace Other Than Here"
Cover: Chamber rescuing a fairy

While the teachers battle a troll, Skin mouths off at a dragon, and everyone else tries to fix the fairies' "Glamour Machine". At the end, they discover that all it needs is a power source. Enter Chamber. While he shows off his power, Banshee secretly worries that he may do even more damage to his body.

GenX '95:"Of Leather And Lace"
Cover cameo, featuring Mondo

Jono's not really in this one -- all he does is visit with Penance in the infirmery.

GenX 10:"Death Wail, part 1"
Cover: Jono w/ Omega Red

The team throws an 'orientation party' for Mondo, celebrating his joining the team. Chamber puts on some Pearl Jam before Banshee is discovered unconscious in his cabin. The White Queen enters his mind to keep him alive until the kids can find his attacker. Jubilee and Mondo stay behind to keep an eye on the teachers, while the team (led by Chamber) charges of to 'find the monster what done it!' After a long car chase, and some excellent displays of leadership by our hero, they ditch the car and continue on foot. On the last panel, Omega Red is holding Chamber aloft while the rest of the kids gape in horror.

GenX 11:"Death Wail, part 2"
Cover: Chamber on a testosterone kick.

As you might have guessed from the cover, this issue features our beloved Brit. In the space between issues, Omega Red has managed to chuck Jono into the river and beat the rest of the team to a pulp with the aid of his 'death spore virus.' Jono emerges from the river just in time to save Paige. Of course, one bio-blast sends the Russian packing. Chamber looks all set to follow him and beat him for good, but first, he makes sure Paige is okay. Then he follows Arcady to a dam, where they have their final showdown. Chamber kicks butt. End of story.

Oh, yeah, there was a panal near the end, where Chamber admits his true feelings for Paige....more on that in the Chamber and Husk section.

GenX 12:"The Return of Emplate"

The team takes a trip to Boston for some much-needed relaxation (and, of course, shopping). Skin talks Banshee into letting him have the car to take Chamber somewhere -- 'to the post office'. As they drive, it's evident that he is really meeting an old girlfriend, Gayle Edgerton, in an exclusive restaurant. However, Gayle is not there when he arrives. Instead, there is a picture of the two of them, before Jono's powers manifested themselves. He reminisces, miserably, about what might have been -- "if not fer me...if not fer th' accident." Jono, lost in thought, doesn't hear Gail come up behind him, in a wheelchair. He doesn't know that she has been in league with Emplate (see X-Men: Prime and GenX 10), and is taken by surprise when she attacks him. At the end of the issue, Emplate has captured all of GenX save M, and it is revealed that she is his little sister.

GenX 13:"It's All Relative"

While the rest of GenX hangs upside-down from a tree, Chamber (the only one proven to be able to resist Emplate) is incapacitated by a psionic dampener. While Emplate and Gayle argue over who gets "custody" of Jono, Monet excapes and manages to call the X-Men for help before her brother's hench-goons show up. When she is confronted by the phase-changing Vincente, Bishop arrives to save the day. Meanwhile, Jonothon and Gayle have been buried up to their necks in a field. Gail accuses Jono of ruining her life and then abandoning her, and they both reach the decision that life sucks.

GenX 14:"Jubilee's Top Ten Reasons Why Emplate Is A Loser"
Cover cameo: Emplate/Bishop feature

Jubilee (obviously) has a humorous Top Ten list in this issue. Not much Chamber action in this issue; after they are freed, however, when Gayle asks him why he doesn't hate her, he shows what a great guy he really is by forgiving her. (Perhaps they still have feelings for each other...)

X-Men 49:

Monet, Chamber, Banshee, and Gateway make a guest interlude/cameo. Gateway, for some unknown reason, decides to abduct Jono via his dimensional portal. As they disappear, Monet reads from Gateway's mind: Onslaught. In #50, we find out that he was returned a few minutes later.

GenX 15:"Death In The Family"

Only a cameo in this one. For some reason, Jono's meeting with Onslaught has messed up his power. He can't remember what happened, and every time he tries to figure it out, his psionics start acting out. He makes a rather prophetic comment to Skin: "I saw "is face...I know I did, when Gateway took me away. So why can't I remember.... Why erase me memory of what 'e looked like...unless the ruddy plonker thought I'd recognize him?" ("plonker" seems to be one of his favorite words)

GenX 16:"Out of Synch"

With Jono getting worse, both teachers and most of the team in St. Louis (dealing with a possessed Synch), and (ominously) no answer at Salem Center (Professor Xavier's mansion), Angelo decides to drive him there himself. Just before they leave, somebody shows up at the door, apparently about an ad in the paper. Skin: "Fine. You1re hired. Come back tomorrow." SLAM! (for the first appearance of Chevy, see X-Men: Prime) At the end of the issue, Skin gets run off the road by the Executioner.

GenX 17:"The Teeth of Our Skin"

This is Skin's highlight issue. Mostly, it's him vs. the Executioner on an old circus ground, with a few interludes with rest of the team. He does find an original way to hide Jono (he puts him in a tank of dirty water -- remember, Jono doesn't breathe).

GenX 18:"For The Sake Of The Children"

Two cameos in this one. In the first, Skin swipes a trucker's dinner at a rest stop, while Chamber tells him to go on without him, to which Angelo basically says, 'yeah right.' He then tells him to shut up for about the fifth time. They seem to be becoming close friends. In the second one, the hitch a ride with the trucker...Espinosa-style.

The rest of the team gets kidnapped by a confused White Queen.

GenX 19:"Don't Wait Up"

Not in it at all. Unless you count the first page: "What's this issue about?" "Can't see from here."

Meanwhile, the rest of GenX hangs out at one of Emma's mansions, under her influence, until M shows the White Queen that she's been manipulated by Onslaught.

GenX 20:"Bodies in Motion"
Cover: Chamber and Skin hitchhike incognito.

In the middle of the issue, Angelo calls Banshee's cell-phone from LA to tell him that they're all right. ("We're here. We're fine. See you soon." -click-) They then hitch a ride.... with.... uhm..... Howard the Duck. (dear God, say it ain't so...)

IMPORTANT PLOT TWIST!While all this is going on, the rising supervillian known only as Bastion makes the discovery that Chamber is composed completely of psionic energy. This could have some serious ramifications for his character, none the least of which is the fact that he can have his face back. It also means that he may be as powerful as Onslaught, who was also composed of psionic energy. All he has to do is figure this out himself!

GenX 21:"To Live and Die and Molt in L.A."
Cover: Chamber kicking butt in a barfight (with Howard the Duck)

Wellll....the duck ain't that bad. He and Jono instigate a brawl to keep the mysterious 'Tores' occupied while Angelo visits his own grave. (Everyone there thinks he's dead.) Skin 'visits' there with his mom -- using his power to create a disguise. Eventually, Tores shows up anyway. Her first name might be Torre, and she might be his ex-girlfriend. For all of her tough talk, however, she seems to have really cared for Angelo. When Jono asks him to explain, Skin doesn't answer.

While administering a test at the M.A., the X-Men's Beast diagnoses M as being autistic.

GenX 22:

The Halloween issue. Paige and Banshee take the three little kids trick-or-treating, while Emma gets a visit from Nightmare. Jono gets to play a really cool (and funny) trick on someone. A truckful of really bored punks decide to have some fun with the kids at the "special" school in Snow Valley (I wonder who it could be...). Then, (here comes the fun part!) as they pull into the driveway, the headlights outline a guy in a hooded jacket... and he has a skull for a head... and... it's glowing. The next panel, he explodes, and the punks freak out... until they see Skin... lynched from a tree... skin still dripping off... and then the car starts levitating (Monet's underneath it).

Skin decides that while it was nice to visit LA, this is his home now.

GenX 23: "For All This We Give Thanks"
Cover: Chamber and some autumn leaves

Sean tries to take Monet to the doctor's. He doesn't succeed.

Meanwhile, Chamber and Husk are chilling out in Kentucky. They finally get to vent their feelings, and boy do they vent! Chamber tries to tell her that he can never be normal. She tries to tell him that what he looks like doesn't matter to her. They fight. A lot. In the end, he packs up and goes away.

**In the very beginning, Husk points out that he never talks about his family, and he responds that he never will. Hmm... future issue: Chamber revisits his roots. Probably much, MUCH later.**

We see Bastion looking up the White Queen, and the 'Mysterious Blue Lady'. Actually, she's more GREEN, but, hey, Artie and Leech are the right color!

GenX 24: "Home for the Holidays"

Nope. Not in this one. Unless you count about a page of the girls teasing Husk.

GenX 25: "Suffer the Children"
Cover cameo: "Chamber" et al, on the back, with Banshee on the front.
(We later find out that it's not really him.)

Brief appearance in the last two pages. A bubble in which Black Tom had imprisoned the kids (M, Skin, Husk, Synch, and you know who) rises to the surface of the ocean and bursts open. Chamber wakes up ane says 'Gordon Bennett'. It's extremley outdated British slang.

Oh, yeah, the other characters.... Let's see... Mondo turns out to be an evil clone of a character we've apparantly never met created by Black Tom. He's "killed" by Bastion, who also kidnapps Jubilee, who escaped the fate of the other kids. The little kids, Howie Q., his girlfriend, and the alien are rescued by 'Man Thing' (don't ask), Black Tom captures Banshee and the White Queen, saying he'll give back the kids if Banshee kills Emma. He refuses, and eventually she takes over his mind long enough to force him to (apparantly) do the deed. Penance, forgotten by everyone else, shows up and shreds Black Tom. End of story. Oh, yeah, Gateway removes himself... for a while, at least.

Adrift
('nuff said)
Loads of Jono action in this one: Chamber, Husk, Skin, M, and Synch are all 'adrift' on Black Tom's organic raft, but ol' Jono's the only one awake. As always, his first concern is for Paige, who is in some kind of shock from being between 'morphs'. M wakes up and realizes the problem, and helps her to shed her skin. She then tries to protect Skin from the sun, but ends up doing more harm than good. Chamber stops her and rips off a piece of the raft to shade him. M, in a panic, flies off 'to get help'; upon her return, she says she discovered "the truth. We're going to die." Meanwhile, Paige and Jono fight, again, this time over how Jono patronizes her.

In other news: Jubilee wakes up, gets surprised by one of Bastion's baddies and (literally) blows up at him. Rather than escape, however, she gives him CPR and revives him ("You're not gonna make a murderer outta me!"), which baffles Bastion. She nearly escapes, but can't survive the frozen elements outside the fortress, and is recaptured. (Bastion may have already done his worst -- he gave her a buzz!)

The White Queen is not dead; she merely used Banshee's voice to stun herself so Black Tom would think she was dead. (As if any of us believed it.)

Guest Appearances:

Courtosey of Skin.

X-Men #41:

Has a scene of Gen X (including Chamber) being frozen in time for the AoA.

What If #75:

What if Blink Never Died? This issue has those answers. Has a few Chamber appearances her and there (including on the cover)

X-Men Prime:

Chamber's not in here but Gayle Edgerton is. She makes a deal with Emplate involving Chamber and her past.

Uncanny X-Men '95:

Chamber is in here playing a game of basketball with the rest of Gen X.

X-Men '96:

The X-Teams are having a bar-b-q and, wouldn't you know it, Chamber and Gen X are invited.

Generation X #1/2 (Also known as the Generation X San Diego Con Issue):

This issue was supposed to be a preview issue of Gen X. The Gen X kids are playing a game of volleyball. Banshee tries to get Chamber to play, but is unsuccessful.

Marvel 1995 Annual Report

Available online.

Wolverine #94:

Chamber's only appearance is when Chamber knocks on the window to tell everyone about Wolverine being at the mansion.