Beauty and the Beast (X-Men) #2

Cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Heartbreak Hotel, script by Ann Nocenti, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Kim DeMulder; Dazzler’s powers are out of control and she is recuperating under the watchful eye of Beast at the Heartbreak Hotel, a residence for displaced mutants; In such an intimate setting and under such extreme circumstances, the pair begin to foster a romance; Alexander Flynn arrives at the hotel and promises to help Dazzler with her power problems if she will come perform at Hugo Longride’s underground theater; Despite Beast’s protests she agrees; Beast follows and attends Dazzler’s first performance and is horrified to find that the theater is a giant arena where mutants engage in gladiatorial combat; Alex promises Dazzler that the whole thing is staged but a mutant is killed during one of the fights; Beast tries to get Dazzler to leave with him but she begins to feel at home with her fellow misfit mutants and refuses.