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Index to X-Factor, including annuals and related material Version 3.0, last modified July 25, 1998 by Robert Diehl (rfdiehl@yahoo.com) Issue: Avengers 263 Date: Jan-86 Story: What Lurks Below? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Steve Rogers (Captain America), Janet Van Dyne (the Wasp), Dane Whitman (the Black Knight), Hercules, Monica Rambeau (Captain Marvel II), Namor the Sub-Mariner Regular Characters: Sikorski, the Avengers' government liaison Guest Stars: Her, Adam Warlock (in flashback); Jean Grey Villains: The Enclave: Morlak, Zota, Shinski; Melter, Keegan Other Characters: FBI agents including Derek Freeman, Carter Synopsis: The Enclave, trying to evade the police at JFK airport, run their plane into a 747 and crash into Jamaica Bay, where their plane explodes spectacularly. The Avengers welcome Namor to their membership, with misgivings on the part of some. Captain Marvel notices the explosion at JFK and investigates mysterious happenings under the water. She finds a cocoon which repels her when she tries to probe it and which tells her, "Leave me alone!" Captain America says the cocoon is similar to the ones in which She and Adam Warlock were created, but Captain Marvel learns from Shinski that this cocoon is not his. The cocoon repels Namor, and then the entire team. Jan realizes that it is acting in self-defense and that she can communicate with it. She calms it enough that they can transport the slimy, silt-covered, Jean-Grey-encapsulating thing back to Avengers Mansion. Issue: Fantastic Four 286 Date: Jan-86 Story: Like a Phoenix! (30 pages) Feature Characters: The Fantastic Four: Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Sue Richards (the Invisible Woman), Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk) Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Avengers Captain America, Hercules, Edwin Jarvis; Jean Grey; X-Men Cyclops, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Prof. Xavier, Dr. Peter Corbeau (all in flashback) Villains: Stephen Lang and Sentinels (in flashback) Other Characters: Synopsis: The Fantastic Four return to earth after one of their cosmic adventures. They arrive at Avengers Mansion, their temporary home, and are shown the cocoon recovered in Avengers 263. When Reed touches it, it hurls him across the room. Sue makes it invisible, revealing a woman. Reed sets to work and determines that she is in stasis. He stimulates her conscious mind, and Jean Grey breaks free, levitating most of the contents of the mansion in process. She thinks the Fantastic Four and the Avengers are all robot duplicates created by Lang, and Sue has to subdue her. They convince her they are the real thing and inform her that she has been presumed dead for years (since Uncanny X-Men 137, Sept. 1980). She remembers battling Lang's replicated X-Men (Uncanny X-Men 100), but nothing further. She decides to find Xavier, only to learn to her horror that Magneto now leads the X-Men. She instead goes to her parents' house, which is empty, and Hercules finds the holempathic crystal that Lilandra gave them (Uncanny X-Men 144). When Jean touches it, it replays her last moments: piloting the shuttle through cosmic rays, the Phoenix force responding to her mental cries for help and offering to save her friends, if she gives it her form. Captain America replays the record Beast had made about the Dark Phoenix and its suicide on the moon (Uncanny X-Men 129-137). He and the Richards explain that the Phoenix had duplicated Jean, body and soul, and her humanity ultimately defeated it. Reed decides to call Angel and tell him the news. Issue: X-Factor 1 Date: Feb-86 Story: Third Genesis (42 pages) Feature Characters: Scott Summers (Cyclops), Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), Warren K. Worthington III (Angel), Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy (Beast), Robert "Bobby" Drake (Iceman), Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins Guest Stars: Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four Villains: Other Characters: Madelyne Pryor Summers, Nathan Summers (an infant); Candy Southern; CPO Fisher; Emma La Porte Credits: Writer: Bob Layton Pencils: Jackson Guice Inks: Bob Layton, Jackson Guice, Josef Rubinstein Colors: Petra Scotese, "Max" Scheele, Glynis Oliver Editors: Mike Carlin, Michael Higgins Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Scott, living privately in Anchorage, decides he must help his fellow mutants in the face of rising hostility toward them. Madelyne, meanwhile, is jealous of Scott's dead love, Jean. Hank and Bobby, with Warren in his home in the Rockies, are in process of breaking up the Defenders. After a call from Mr. Fantastic, Warren flies to New York and sees that Jean is alive. He calls Scott, who abandons Madelyne and reunites with Jean but fails to tell her about his new family. It is explained that Jean had been placed in a capsule at the bottom of Jamaica Bay by Phoenix, who impersonated her. Jean and Warren decide to form a new mutant team, since Magneto now leads the X-Men. They recall Hank and Bobby, while Scott sulks on the beach. Hodge is introduced as the PR representative for X-Factor. The group will pose as mutant hunters for hire, while actually protecting the mutants they catch. Rusty, a sailor in port in San Diego, goes to a strip club with Fisher, is kissed by and accidentally burns Emma, and is arrested. Threatened by Fisher, he breaks out of prison. Fisher calls on X-Factor, who take the boy in. Issue: X-Factor 2 Date: Mar-86 Story: Bless the Beasts and Children (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Villains: Tower, Dr. Carl Maddicks of Ryan Bio-Chemical Laboratories outside Atlanta Other Characters: Vera (Cantor) Credits: Writer: Bob Layton, Jackson Guice (plot assist) Pencils: Jackson Guice Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Jean dreams about Phoenix taking her place. Warren fails to convince Scott to tell her about Madelyne. Hank is reunited with his girlfriend Vera, who is now a free-spirit. Jean begins training Rusty in the use of his power. Scott tries to call Madelyne and finds out that she has moved. Tower attacks, captures Hank, and delivers him to Dr. Maddicks, a former colleague at Brand Corp. He calls X-Factor to have them remove Tower and uses his son Arthur's mutant ability to read Hank's mind. He obtains a formula that will reverse mutations and tests it on Hank. His goal is to make Arthur normal. X-Factor captures Tower and interrogates him to find Hank. Hank goes into cardiac arrest as a result of the experiment. Issue: X-Factor 3 Date: Apr-86 Story: Regression Obsession (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Villains: Tower, Dr. Carl Maddicks Other Characters: Vera, Senator Thompson Credits: Writer: Bob Layton Pencils: Jackson Guice Inks: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: X-Factor bribes Tower to find out where Hank was taken, but Dr. Maddicks gets Arthur to put a mind-lock on him before he can talk. Arthur is unable to continue, and Tower directs X-Factor to Dr. Maddicks' lab. They break in and defeat the security guards. Maddicks, fearing the guards will kill Arthur, sends him with X-Factor through an escape tunnel and is himself killed while acting as rearguard. Scott again fails to tell Jean about Madelyne, and Hank is shown to have reverted to his original, human form. Issue: X-Factor 4 Date: May-86 Story: Trials and Errors (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Villains: Tower, Frenzy, Apocalypse (in the background) Other Characters: Vera, Headmaster Woodley, Martin Davis, "Ol' Chilly Dog" Credits: Writer: Bob Layton Pencils: Keith Pollard Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: X-Factor fails to capture Tower in an airport. Jean continues to train Rusty, and pushes him too hard. Scott still fails to tell Jean about Madelyne, and Warren fails to tell her about his own feelings for her. The team goes as the mutant-hunting X-Factor to a boarding school and determine that Martin is not a telepath (he uses bugging devices). Rusty runs away from X-Factor and is attacked by a mugger, whom he burns, and Frenzy, who is not as easy to frighten off. Arthur directs the team to Rusty's rescue, and he reconciles to X-Factor. Issue: X-Factor 5 Date: Jun-86 Story: Tapped Out (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Michael Nowlan Villains: The Alliance of Evil: Tower, Frenzy, Stinger, Timeshadow, Apocalypse Other Characters: Vera, Susan Nowlan Credits: Writer: Bob Layton Pencils: Jackson Guice Inks: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Michael escapes from prison and from the clutches of the Alliance and immediately seeks heroin. X-Factor works out, and Bobby clowns around with Hank. Vera buys Hank new clothes, and Jean enrolls in Columbia U to get a BA in Psychology. Susan refuses to help her husband get high, calls X-Factor, and is attacked by the Alliance. X-Factor finds Michael and cleans him up. His mutant ability is to amplify the powers of other mutants, but heroin prevents this. He stays on heroin to avoid being a tool for evil mutants. X-Factor reveal themselves to Michael as mutants, actually aiding other mutants. The Alliance attacks, with Susan as a hostage, so Michael helps them defeat X-Factor. Issue: X-Factor 6 Date: Jul-86 Story: Apocalypse Now! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Michael Nowlan Villains: The Alliance of Evil: Tower, Frenzy, Stinger, Timeshadow, Apocalypse (1st full appearance) Other Characters: Vera, Susan Nowlan Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Jackson Guice Inks: Bob McLeod Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: X-Factor flees from the hotel where they were defeated by the Alliance. The Alliance interrogate Michael to reveal the connection between the mutants and X-Factor, and he amplifies their powers, making them go haywire. Apocalypse commands they end the interrogation and attaches Michael to a machine that keeps him doped-up until needed. X-Factor attacks, Susan is killed, and Michael self-destructs in order to stop aiding the Alliance. During the fight, Jean is surrounded by the Phoenix effect, but only Scott notices. Issue: X-Factor 7 Date: Aug-86 Story: Fall Out! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Glow Worm (a mutant radioactive from atomic waste); Bulk (likewise); Skids (a Morlock) Villains: Tower Other Characters: Vera; Trish Tilby of W-ARC-TV Credits: Writer: Louise Jones Pencils: Jackson Guice Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Returning from San Diego and dressed as super-heroes because their X-Factor uniforms were destroyed by Michael Nowlan, the team must sneak aboard their own plane. Tower, in custody, is interviewed on TV and links X-Factor to the mutant team, inciting a demonstration at X-Factor HQ in New York. Scott had accidentally called Jean "Maddie," prompting her to question the other members of the team while playing "tag" in the workout room. Just as Scott decides to fess up, Jean guesses he is married, and she runs off. In a toxic dump in New Jersey, Glow Worm and Bulk hide from amateur mutant hunters. They meet Skids in the Morlock tunnels and then attack the X-Factor building. Scott, Hank, and Bobby pretend to help them as fellow-mutants, while really stopping them. Warren, Jean, Rusty, Cameron, and Vera dress in X-Factor uniforms and drive them all away. Scott, Hank, and Bobby join Glow Worm and Bulk down their "bolt hole" but leave when they realize they cannot help them further. Issue: X-Factor 8 Date: Sep-86 Story: Lost and Found! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Skids Villains: Freedom Force, formerly the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny Other Characters: Vera; Trish Tilby Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Marc Silvestri Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Scott and Jean clean up radiation residue from Glow Worm and Bulk (last iss.). She confronts him about his marriage to Madelyne. The rest of the team watch the TV reports of the last issue's events. When posing as evil mutants, they are called "X-Terminators" by the press. Mystique briefs Freedom Force on capturing Rusty for the US government. The mayor of New York calls on X-Factor to stop a mutant battle in Central Park (see Uncanny X-Men 209). Arthur shows Rusty that X-Factor is being tailed. In trying to help, Rusty is nearly arrested by Freedom Force, is defended by X-Factor, and is rescued by Skids. Issue: X-Factor 9 Date: Oct-86 Story: Spots! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Morlocks: Skids, Caliban, Leech Villains: Freedom Force: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny, Valerie Cooper Other Characters: Vera; Trish Tilby Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: This issue is part 2 of the "Mutant Massacre" crossover. Rusty and Skids flee from Freedom Force. X-Factor discusses mutant relations and bumps into Magneto as he enters the Hellfire Club. Freedom Force capture Rusty and are attacked by humans, so Rusty escapes with Skids into the Morlock tunnels. Arthur follows and meets Leech and Caliban. X-Factor defends Freedom Force, who also follow Rusty into the tunnels and recaptures him, only to be re-attacked by X-Factor Freedom Force retreats, after Destiny says she foresees Rusty dead. X-Factor takes him, wounded, back to the complex, and Skids comes with. Mystique plans to expose Warren as an evil mutant. Issue: X-Factor 10 Date: Nov-86 Story: Falling Angel! (24 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: Morlocks: Zeek, Erg, Beautiful Dreamer, Skids, Ape, Tar Baby, Plague Villains: Freedom Force: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny, Valerie Cooper; Marauders: Harpoon, Arclight, Vertigo, Blockbuster, Scrambler, Prism; Sabretooth; Apocalypse Other Characters: Trish Tilby, Candy Southern Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: This issue is part 4 of the "Mutant Massacre" crossover. Warren and Jean taken Rusty and Skids back to X-Factor HQ, while Marauders are killing Morlocks at random in the tunnels. Sabretooth attacks Caliban, while Leech and Arthur hide. Scott, Hank, and Bobby search for Arthur and attack the Marauders in the Morlock tunnels. Mystique uses Trish to expose Warren's connection to X-Factor, and he decides the anti-mutant masquerade was a bad idea. Warren and Jean commiserate, and Candy walks in on them. She resigns as VP of Worthington Enterprises. Sabretooth attacks Plague, and she repels him. Apocalypse appears and makes her his first horseman: Pestilence. Scrambler and Prism defeat Hank, Bobby, and Scott; Jean and Warren drive them off. Warren finds Arthur and is attacked by Marauders. Harpoon pins him to a wall by his wings. Issue: X-Factor 11 Date: Dec-86 Story: Redemption! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: "Drain Dweller" Morlocks: Ape, Erg, Beautiful Dreamer, Skids, Tar Baby; Caliban, Leech; in flashback: Power Pack, Thor; Boom Boom Villains: "Tunneler" Morlocks: Scaleface, Blow-Hard, Berzerker, Masque; Apocalypse; a soldier named Abraham Lincoln (later War); Vanisher Other Characters: the Savage Wolf street gang Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: This issue is part 9 of the "Mutant Massacre" crossover. Tunneler Morlocks attack Bobby and Hank until they realize they are not Marauders. Scott allies with them, brings them to X-Factor HQ, and reveals themselves as X-Factor. Caliban swears vengeance on the Marauders, while a fire starts in the Morlock "Alley". The Tunneler Morlocks sneak out, are mugged by the Savage Wolf gang (killing Blow-Hard), and are attacked by the police (killing Scaleface). Scott and Jean come to their rescue (but kill Berzerker), and save Masque. Apocalypse rescues Lincoln from an iron lung machine to make him his second horseman, while Boom Boom quits Vanisher's band of petty thieves. Warren is taken to St. Vincent's hospital, and the doctor announces he will have to remove the wings.
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