UXM 101

Although Professor Xavier apparently talked Storm into a fairly traditional X-uniform, she has always been quick to opt for a more natural look. In this issue, she strips down to wash up in a summer shower of her own making for the first time. This becomes a trademark of sorts for her. The rain, her hair, and body position usually are utilized in these scenes to stay within code.

UXM 109

Storm taking a ‘natural' shower again.

UXM 117, also UXM 150, UXM 161, UXM 280

When Professor Xavier travels in his astral (or mental) form, he appears to us as a sort of nude ghost. It's a "Ken doll" sort of nudity, as even frontal views with lighting show no genitalia whatsoever, but the curve of his buttocks is sometimes shown.

UXM 120

Storm is nude beneath a robe here, which doesn't become apparent until she gestures to try and control a storm...lucky for her, the details are hidden in shadows.

UXM 136

After a psychic struggle between the Phoenix and Professor Xavier, Jean's costume apparently disintegrates, leaving a nude Jean hugging Cyclops. Jean's father quickly provides a robe for her. All very carefully shadowed.

UXM 147

On the cover of this issue, as well as inside, Storm is once again topless...well, okay, there are two long, sheer, wispy pieces of her scarf carfelly blocking the details, but that's not a top. At least not while it's not tied at the back, it's not. (Interestingly, Dr. Doom expresses an interest in Ororo in this issue - although by the time he does so, she has carefully retied the wisps back into a halter of sorts.)

UXM 152

Ororo in lingerie as the White Queen; on the last page, this outfit disintegrates in the air in front of six X-Men and three others. Not a problem; in case you hadn't noticed, this lady ain't real shy.

UXM 156

The male X-Men are more discreet (or perhaps just not as marketable?). No matter how tough a fight may get, they seldom lose their briefs. (Why don't they make the rest of their costumes out of the same material?) However, there are exceptions. Colossus is nude in a life support module here, and except for the ‘medic' hovering strategically above him, we'd have a great view.

UXM 160

Storm and outdoor shower again; this time she offers to share her shower with the other X-Men. She also goes skinny-dipping in this issue. (Perhaps we should start calling her "Nature Girl" instead of the "Nature Goddess"?)

UXM 163

No, she's not an X-Man, but she is Wolverine's friend, so I'm including her here. Carol Danvers is nude on the splash page; the combination of light and shadows from the alien beams hitting her hide the details. Freed later by Wolverine, she falls naked into his arms. He puts a robe on her. Hey, that's what friends are for.

UXM 168

Ororo goes for a walk in the snow. To quote from the issue itself, "The air is bitter cold, her only protection a white fur cloak, but she doesn't seem to mind." And sure enough, three panels later she drops the coat to ‘open herself' to the radiance of the sunrise, nude again.

UXM 186

In "Lifedeath", Ororo is briefly nude (seen carefully from the side) as she selects a dress to wear.

UXM 194

We get a glimpse here of Rogue in the shower. Her arms, lathering herself up, block her breasts from view.

UXM 202

Rogue wakes Storm up to notify her of a crisis, and of course Storm was sleeping in the buff. The shadows of her plants carefully provide a discreet covering. (We are often given glimpses of the X-Folk in bed, and Ororo usually seems to be nude beneath the covering sheet, but that's just my impression.)

UXM 205

Not an X-Person, true, and scary to boot, but here's a nude Lady Deathstrike, with her butt, breast curves, and bio-mechanics showing. Yeeks!

UXM 233

Drawing the very sexy Goblin Queen outfit must have gotten the artist all heated up, because there are numerous nude appearances during the "Inferno" series. In this issue, a nude Jean Grey is created from a mannequin by Cyclops in Madelyne Pryor/Summers' nightmare. In the end of this emotionally-charged sequence, Maddie's clothes dissolve. The distance of the figures hides any details.

UXM 234

In the continuation of this storyline, we see a nude Maddie being reborn as the Goblin Queen; wisps of steam and shadows cover her carefully.

UXM 236

In one of my favorite scenes, Rogue and Wolverine have been "modemed in" to Genosha after being captured by the press gang in Australia. The transfer causes them to arrive in their ‘birthday suits', fighting mad. Nude, they fight off what appears to be dozens of armed (and uniformed) Genoshan soldiers before being overcome several pages later. Throughout this sequence, several techniques are used to keep it all within comic code: the bodies of their opponents block our view, debris does likewise, so do their own arms and positions. The lack of clothing causes not even a moment's hesitation in either of them. ("Uniforms? We don't need no steenkin' uniforms!")

UXM 238

Maddie Pryor/Summers (they had been calling her by her maiden name, even though she's still married to - but deserted by - Cyclops/Scott Summers, probably to make us more accepting of Jean Grey's return to Scott's life), now a prisoner of the Genoshans, has escaped from her cell, inexplicably removing the suit given to her by her captors, and is standing by the creche ("where the genegineer grows his babies") nude. The baby she is holding blocks our view, as do shadows and carefully trimmed perspectives. Although no reason is given for her stripping, her fragile mental state is evidenced in the blankness of her eyes. (If you didn't read the series back then, trust me, she'd been through an awful lot. By this time she had already become the Goblin Queen, but shreds of her former personality remained.)

UXM 239

Yep, Maddie gets a lot of skin time in this series. After seducing Alex Summers (Havok), we see Maddie again as a nude, moonlit outline at the window, the details hidden by darkness.

UXM 240

Here we catch Psylocke posing nude for Peter Rasputin (Colossus). Since Peter's interest is strictly artistic, and since Betsy has also insisted on getting the completed painting, this is not as naughty as you might think.

UXM 241

We now witness Maddie's birth (through the memories of Sinister). Breaking free of her case, she is nude, yet fortunately covered by a wisp of smoke and Sinister's cowl.

UXM 245

Alien invaders review their "Jean Bomb". According to them (a wry commentary on the turns the series has taken by this time), it's designed to "fatally disrupt any and all relationships", and it looks like a nude Jean Grey in a bubbling glass chamber. The bubbles, of course, are carefully placed.

UXM 253

This story begins with sihlouttes of a nude Storm, who has been transformed into a child. Lightning flashes through the rain around her; a man working to reinforce the levee says "...ain't NEVER seen a STORM like this'n!" just before they find her. (Aren't they clever? ;) The child-Sotrm is taken to a hospital, in shock.

UXM 257

Psylocke/Betsy is taking a bath. This is not that unusual, we often see the X-characters in bubble baths, but quite modestly covered. This is different; not only is more skin visible, she is also bathing in full view of Lord Jonin of the Hand! She even climbs out of the bath to take a towel he hands her. If not for wisps of steam, our view would be as good as his seems to be.

UXM 259

A nude and human (not steel) Peter Rasputin in a Soho loft confronts Genoshan magistrates who are threatening a young couple. (One of the magistrates even comments "Look at ‘im, Chaz, he's STARKERS!") Nice muscles on this guy. Lucky for him that the shadows fell where they did.

UXM 259

Guido (AKA Strong Guy) finds an injured Dazzler covered by seaweed on the beach by Lila Cheney's house. Dazzler is, presumably due to what she's been through, without clothing. Position and distance disguise this.

UXM 267

Storm remembers being changed to a child - which, for no reason I can tell, occurs while she is nude. Although details are carefully shadowed or blocked, as usual, the peak of a breast can be seen from the side. However, from the center down the breasts are shadowed.

UXM 269

After an attack by Master Mold, Rogue appears in her own room, nude. Smoke masks details. (She wonders to herself, "Last ah remember, ah was in New York! Not t' mention, fully clothed.")

UXM 273

Jean/Marvel Girl (or whoever she is at this point - I keep losing track) taking a shower. Carefully placed tendrils of steam. Several pages later, Jean's astral (mental) self appears to be nude, as Professor Xavier's usually is.

UXM 275

Rogue and the X-Men rescue Magneto from Zaldane and Brainchild. Magneto is being held nude (I don't know why, but I'm certainly not arguing; perhaps clothes interfere with the transfer of his energies to Zaldane, since while receiving the transfer she is also nude), escapes nude, and kills Zaldane (while admitting he can no longer guide the New Mutants) nude. THEN he reconstructs his costume. Nice muscles on this dude!

UXM 275

Psylocke emerges from a bath and begins meditating, nude. (We know she's not shy because of the costume she usually almost wears, don't we?)

UXM 276

Jubilee is held prisoner in a nude techno-organic form, but she's just a kid, so no breasts to hide, and her speech balloon hides anything else. (Now that's a different approach.) Deathbird changes her green alien buddy, Prime, into a nude Xavier double, carefully shadowed.

UXM 277

Not liking having been duplicated, the real Professor Xavier (nude and techno-organic) knocks the stuffin' out of the fake Xavier.

UXM 288

A lovely blue nude of Warren / Archangel, first in his room, then flying! Apparently, he was getting dressed when he heard a phone message that caused him to get into some soul-searching, and clothes aren't really that important if you can fly high enough (as Storm knows).

UXM 300

Showing some nice, long scars from Wolverine across his chest, Fabian Cortez is transported nude by Amelia Voght. Again, wisps of smoke come in handy. He stays nude for several pages, I assume just because no one brings him any clothes.

UXM 330

Psylocke is partially nude as the forces of the Crimson Dawn hit her nearly-dead body. Bottom half covered by a sheet, breast details covered by arm.

Xmen Giant Sized Annual #10

In this issue we catch Storm/Ororo rising in the morning nude; her plants, ever helpful, block our view. Later, Wolverine fighting nude; after awhile he gets a towel, but until then he's only ‘protected' by positional and shadow coverages.

UXM Annual #11

Wolverine nude again, after being regenerated from a single drop of his blood throught the power of a crystal shard. Light bathes him and conceals him.

UXM Annual #15

Includes a neat short story featuring an internal struggle of Logan's, which portrays him nude fighting himself and then meditating nude. Yup, not a stitch of clothing in the whole story. Those were the days.

X-Men 4

Omega Red, nude, back from the dead. (My only complaint about the Marvel universe is the transience of death for its characters. "I was dead, but I got better" is all too easily overused. On the other hand, I'm glad Jean's back.)

X-Men 34

Here we have a nude, badly-decayed clone of Sabretooth. Ick. Details blocked by pieces of equipment.

X-Men 36

Xmen are threatened by a nude Stephen Lang, who is at this point part of the Phalanx. Carefully shadowed.

X-Men 76

Marrow is topless after undergoing a physical exam by Dr. Cecelia Reyes. Her speech balloon (and then position) block OUR view, but Canonball has to cover his eyes as Marrow dares him to look. Marrow got ‘prettified' when she first joined the X-Men (she was quite monstrous before), and of course in a recent issue was prettified still more. I would guess that means that a) she'll be around for awhile, and b) they intend for her to have a romance with someone.

X-Men 84, also X-Men 88, X-Men 90

The Professor astral travelling nude again.

X-Men 87

Joseph, in battling Magneto's destruction of the magnetosphere, is pictured as a huge nude figure enveloping the earth - which is strategically placed. I liked Joseph; the poor guy never really had a chance to enjoy life, and he took a lot of crap he didn't deserve because most of the others assumed he was really Magneto. Not to mention that he had Magneto's good looks in a younger format.

New Mutants 46

Moira is seen in the shower first, then teleported nekkid as a jaybird to Limbo by Illyana (Magik). Five panels later, Magik conjures up some clothes, but until then Moira's body parts are positioned carefully.