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Issue: X-Factor 12 Date: Jan-87 Story: Boom Boom Boom! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks Guest Stars: "Drain Dweller" Morlocks: Ape, Erg, Beautiful Dreamer, Skids, Tar Baby; Caliban, Leech; Boom Boom Villains: Apocalypse; Autumn Rolfson (Famine) Other Characters: Sara Grey, Jean's sister Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Warren refuses to let his wings be amputated. Boom Boom calls X-Factor and turns in Vanisher. Jean sees Sara speaking out for mutants on TV and tries to contact her. She discovers that Sara has been threatened for supporting mutants and has moved away, and her house explodes. Hank and Bobby fail to capture Vanisher, but chase and capture Boom Boom Apocalypse takes Autumn as his third horseman. Scott decides to return to Alaska to check on Madelyne. Issue: X-Factor 13 Date: Feb-87 Story: Ghosts! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Caliban, Leech Guest Stars: Ape Villains: Master Mold Other Characters: Officer Higgins Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Finisher: Dan Green Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis In flashback: Master Mold (destroyed in Hulk Ann 7) fell to earth in the Bering Strait. Scott says good-bye to Jean and returns to Alaska to find that Madelyne has disappeared. Master Mold rises from the sea, intent on killing Scott. He kills innocent computer operators and begins tracing information. Scott discovers that his grandfather has sold North Star Airways, and he can find no record of Madelyne anywhere. He is visited by manifestations of Madelyne, Jean, and Phoenix and blasts his house to smithereens, while policemen find a red-headed corpse washed up on shore. Issue: X-Factor 14 Date: Mar-87 Story: The Mutant Program! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Skids, Leech, Boom Boom Guest Stars: Villains: Master Mold Other Characters: Trish Tilby, Sam her cameraman 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: Master Mold detects Scott in Anchorage and discovers that all humans contain some mutant cells. It decides to kill all humans. Police arrest Scott, and Master Mold attacks the squad car. Scott blasts Master Mold to pieces and then tricks it into blowing up an oil refinery, destroying itself. Warren is declared incompetent by court order, and the doctors amputate has his gangrened wings. Issue: X-Factor 15 Date: Apr-87 Story: Whose Death Is it, Anyway? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Caliban, Leech, Boom Boom Guest Stars: "Drain Dweller" Morlocks: Ape, Erg, Beautiful Dreamer, Tar Baby Villains: Apocalypse and his horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine Other Characters: 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: Warren learns his wings were amputated, and that he is under government investigation. Boom Boom and Masque quarrel. Scott identifies Madelyne's corpse, attends her funeral, and returns to New York. Masque attacks Hank and Caliban, but Leech drains his power. The Morlocks, except for Skids, return to their tunnels. Warren sneaks out of the hospital, flies out over the ocean in his private jet, and explodes it, having willed his fortune to X-Factor. Issue: X-Factor 16 Date: May-87 Story: Playing with Fire! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids (Sally), Boom Boom Guest Stars: Villains: Masque Other Characters: Emma La Porte Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: David Mazzucchelli Finisher: Josef Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: Skids and Rusty train, prompting Skids' memories of an abused childhood. Her first name is revealed to be Sally. She runs into the Morlock tunnels, followed by Rusty, and ineffectively attacked by Masque. Scott and Jean arrange Warren's funeral. Rusty is reminded of Emma (whose face he burnt in iss. 1). He makes a deal with Masque. He heals Emma, and Rusty lets him ruin his own face. Masque then reneges and re-ruins Emma. Skids learns to control her force field, and she and Rusty force Masque to heal Rusty. Emma is still disfigured, but she has had a religious conversion and decides she has no need of earthly beauty. She descends into the Morlock tunnels to preach the gospel to them. Issue: X-Factor 17 Date: Jun-87 Story: Die, Mutants, Die! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel (deceased), Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Boom Boom, Leech, Caliban, Rictor Guest Stars: Thor, Ariel Villains: Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, and Famine Other Characters: Trish Tilby 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: Bobby, frozen from battling Loki, is returned to X-Factor HQ by Thor and learns of Warren's death. Warren's funeral is mobbed. Bobby, provoked by Trish Tilby, loses control of his power. The timely intervention of Leech saves him from being exposed as a mutant. Apocalypse plans to resurrect Warren as his fourth horseman. The governor of California calls on X-Factor to capture Rictor, who has threatened San Francisco. Caliban accompanies them and is asked to join X-Factor. Scott talks out-loud to Warren and Madelyne, and everyone fears for his sanity. It is revealed that Hodge has been spying on X-Factor and plans to destroy them. In San Francisco as the X-Terminators, they engage in a helicopter battle and rescue Rictor, who was actually a captive of a human terrorist group called "the Right." To prevent Rictor from shaking down a building, Bobby freezes it solid, but it still collapses. Jean, to stop Rictor's power, momentarily stops his heart via telekinesis. Issue: X-Factor 18 Date: Jul-87 Story: The Enemy Within! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Rictor, Skids, Leech Guest Stars: Villains: Apocalypse, Angel/Death Other Characters: 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: Rusty thaws Bobby, frozen solid since last issue. Skids also warms to him. Rusty, Scott, Rictor, and Hank train, and Scott reminisces about falling in love with Jean, who was actually Phoenix. He is visited by an hologram of Phoenix, a trick set up by Hodge. He and Jean fight until Leech intervenes. She believes he loves Phoenix, not Jean, and he was temporarily convinced that she was Phoenix. Apocalypse has resurrected Warren as his fourth horseman: Death. Issue: X-Factor 19 Date: Aug-87 Story: All Together Now! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech Guest Stars: Villains: Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death Other Characters: Trish Tilby 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: Jean and Scott make up and clean up after their fight last issue. Scott, guilty for abandoning Madelyne and for attacking Jean, decides to disband X-Factor. Bobby, Hank, and Caliban, searching the city for Skids, flee from police helicopters. Apocalypse sends War, Pestilence, and Famine to attack them in Central Park. Jean and Scott join in, and Scott accidentally wounds Jean. Pestilence infects Hank and some bystanders. Scott orders Bobby to freeze the Horsemen, and he creates a mini-glacier that traps himself as well. Apocalypse teleports his horsemen away. Scott, concerned about the anti-mutant public image of X-Factor, decides that Hodge must go. Issue: X-Factor 20 Date: Sep-87 Story: Children's Crusade (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: June Brigman Finisher: Randy Emberlin Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: X-Factor returns to their complex via the Morlock tunnels, with Hank ill and Bobby frozen solid. Rusty thaws Bobby, whose is still out of control, so Leech stays with him to siphon off his power. Rusty decides to go to Central Park and melt the glacier that Bobby created last issue, to prove himself a good mutant. He is attacked by a street gang and buried under an avalanche of ice. Arthur, Skids, and Rictor come to his rescue. The kids then team up and melt the rest of the ice. Issue: X-Factor 21 Date: Oct-87 Story: For Every Action... (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban, Cameron Hodge Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor Guest Stars: Villains: The Right's Smile-Face machine-gunners; Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death Other Characters: Trish Tilby 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: Hodge returns for the reading of Warren's will and is physically and verbally assaulted by X-Factor. They denounce his anti-mutant ad campaign and throw him out. Warren's fortune is left to X-Factor, but administered by Hodge. X-Factor plans to expose his whole ploy to Tilby but are interrupted by machine-gunners claiming to be mutants. Hodge had ordered this attack to discredit mutants. Bobby and Scott use their powers to fend off the attack and quickly depart to avoid revealing themselves as mutants. Apocalypse observes and laughs. The Smile-Faces attack the kids living in the X-Factor complex. Issue: X-Factor 22 Date: Nov-87 Story: If I Should Die... (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Rusty Collins (Fire-Fist), Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith) Guest Stars: Villains: Cameron Hodge and The Right; Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Sal Buscema Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The attack on X-Factor complex continues from last issue. Hodge's troops capture the kids. Boom Boom returns and smuggles aboard the plane taking the kids to Arlington Interactive Museum of Science. She avoids capture and rescues Rictor, but they are cornered and surrender to Hodge, who is revealed as the leader of the Right. Issue: X-Factor 23 Date: Dec-87 Story: You Say You Want Some Evolution? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom Guest Stars: Villains: Cameron Hodge and The Right; Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Sal Buscema Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: X-Factor arrives in Arlington and breaks in. They are captured within a cage of ruby quartz but break out. Hank short-circuits the electric box, freeing the kids, who join the battle. Bobby is fitted with an inhibitor belt, which actually helps him get his power back into control. Bobby and Scott defeat a robot duplicate of Hodge. The Museum is destroyed. Apocalypse pits Death against the other horsemen as a training exercise. He later teleports X-Factor, planning to pit his Horsemen against them. Issue: X-Factor 24 Date: Jan-88 Story: Masks (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Caliban Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part of "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover. X-Factor fights Apocalypse aboard his Ship floating above New York. He reveals that because of Pestilence's touch, Hank's strength is growing but his mind is weakening. He also reveals his own long history as god of death in various cultures and asks X-Factor to join him. They refuse and attack the Horsemen. Death is revealed to be Warren, and he uses feather blades laced with tranquilizers to subdue X-Factor. Caliban, weary of being weak, joins Apocalypse in exchange for enhanced power. The Four Horsemen go forth to destroy the weak, beginning in Manhattan. Issue: X-Factor 25 Date: Feb-88 Story: Judgment Day! (40 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Power Pack Villains: Apocalypse, War, Pestilence, Famine, Angel/Death; Caliban (Hell-Hound); Cameron Hodge (in flashback) Other Characters: Ronald Reagan (in flashback) Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part of "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover. As the Horsemen attack Manhattan, X-Factor frees itself and battles Apocalypse aboard his Ship. He throws Scott and Jean down to the city to let them try to stop the Horsemen. Jean battles Famine, and Scott War, while Bobby and Hank fight Apocalypse. Hank damages the Ship, and it careens into skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building. Power Pack helps Jean stop the antenna from falling. Pestilence attacks Power Pack and is killed. Warren splits the antenna in two, and it crashes to earth. Aboard the Ship, Warren fights X-Factor. He destroys an ice statue of Bobby and thinks he killed him, which shocks him into turning against Apocalypse. Apocalypse escapes with Caliban and leaves X-Factor his Ship. They crash land, narrowly missing the Statue of Liberty and crushing the old X-Factor complex. Warren reveals that Hodge was the one who blew up his plane (iss. 15) - he did not attempt suicide. But Apocalypse has changed him, and he refuses to rejoin X-Factor. Issue: X-Factor 26 Date: Mar-88 Story: Casualties (24 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Apocalypse, War, Famine, Caliban/Hell-Hound Other Characters: Policemen including Lieutenant Craig and Sergeant Miller; a news crew including a cameraman named Fred; Trish Tilby; cameraman Neal Conan; Madelyne Pryor Summers (on TV) Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part of "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover. X-Factor emerges from the crash of Apocalypse's Ship, and the NYPD try but fail to arrest them. X-Factor and Warren try to clean up the damage caused by the Ship's crash. Hank is by now stronger and quite stupid. While taking casualties to Roosevelt Hospital, Scott and Jean discuss Madelyne and Nathan. He never really loved her, and his bad marriage ruined him as leader of the X-Men. The public acclaim X-Factor as heroes and give them a ticker-tape parade. They decide to use Apocalypse's Ship as their new headquarters and get new costumes.
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