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Issue: X-Factor 27 Date: Apr-88 Story: Gifts! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom Guest Stars: Angel/Death, Snoopy Villains: Apocalypse, War, Famine, Caliban/Hell-Hound Other Characters: Trish Tilby, Madelyne Pryor Summers, Lieutenant Craig, Sergeant Miller, John and Elaine Grey 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: Because the Empire State Building's antenna was knocked off (iss. 25), Bobby replaces it with an ice sculpture of a Christmas tree, as a gift to New York City. From TV, X-Factor learns of the X-Men's fight in Dallas and that Madelyne died with them. Jean visits her parents at long last, to let them know she is alive, and she promises to find her missing sister Sara. The kids are given so many Christmas presents by anonymous New Yorkers that they decide to give the surplus to a children's hospital. They are mugged along the way, and X-Factor comes to the rescue. Scott tells Jean that he is leaving to find his son Nathan. The Ship has repaired itself, and Apocalypse reveals it is booby-trapped. Issue: X-Factor 28 Date: May-88 Story: Countdown! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Apocalypse, Caliban/Hell-Hound, Infectia Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson (plot assist) Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Apocalypse's Ship comes to life: it bumps a tugboat in the Hudson River; it swallows the kids; it attacks Bobby and Jean. Scott, en route to Dallas to find his son, hears about this and returns in time to save Bobby and Hank from a rocket launcher. Warren visits Candy Southern's apartment and finds she has been kidnapped. The kids find the Ship's brain, and that it has been shackled. Rusty blows away the shackle, and Ship begins to speak and starts a self-destruct countdown, as programmed by Apocalypse. However, it also helps X-Factor remove the bomb and declares itself willing to house X-Factor. Apocalypse begins the transformation of Caliban, and Infectia picks up a man at a single's bar. Issue: X-Factor 29 Date: Jun-88 Story: Fame! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Infectia and the Anti-Bodies: Harold, Greg, Mike, and Fred Other Characters: Reporters including Mr. Murphy of the New York Post and Trish Tilby 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: Harold, with his genes altered by Infectia, over-extends his power and disintegrates, so Infectia makes a replacement. X-Factor holds a press conference to announce that they are moving Ship into the Atlantic, to allay the fears of the residents of New York. Warren captures Tilby and demands he tell her what she knows about Candy Southern and Cameron Hodge. Infectia sends her Anti-Bodies aboard Ship to capture it. Jean defeats and disintegrates them. Issue: X-Factor 30 Date: Jul-88 Story: Kiss of Death! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Infectia; Freedom Force: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny; Nanny (unnamed) 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: Infectia plans to bring Bobby under her control and take Ship. She transforms a policeman into one of her Anti-Bodies and has him attack Bobby, who has been invited with Hank to dine at the Hard Rock Cafe. She throws herself into Bobby's arms, while the creature overextends himself and turns to dust. Bobby agrees to train her in the use of her mutant power and takes her to Ship. Scott and Jean fly to Dallas to find Freedom Force, who were the last to see Nathan, and who try to arrest them. Warren uses the computers at Worthington Enterprises to investigate Candy Southern's disappearance at the hands of the Right. Nanny lurks in Omaha. Issue: X-Factor 31 Date: Aug-88 Story: Kiss Off! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Infectia; Freedom Force: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny; Nanny and Orphan-Maker (unnamed) Other Characters: Mr. Binkley, Infectia's postman Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Bob Wiacek Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Greg Wright Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Hank tells the kids that he is suspicious of Infectia, and they use their mutant powers to prevent her from kissing Bobby. She invites him to her townhouse for some privacy, and Ship warns Hank to protect him. Scott and Jean fight Freedom Force until Destiny tells them that Jean, Madelyne, and Nathan are hidden to her in the skein of time. Infectia puts Bobby in restraints and demonstrates her power on the postman. Hank battles him, and he turns to dust. Infectia then tries to kiss Bobby, but Hank intervenes, is infected, and collapses. Nanny and Orphan-Maker lurk in Omaha, and the Right is monitoring Warren. Issue: X-Factor 32 Date: Sep-88 Story: The Carbon Copy Avengers (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: the Avengers: Dr. Druid, She-Hulk, Thor, Black Knight; the mayor of New York (Ed Koch); Dr. Strange (as a hologram) Villains: Aliens from planet Xarta, led by Lord Zano; Cameron Hodge (unnamed); N'astirh, a demon from Limbo Other Characters: Newscaster Chuck Cherkle Credits: Writers: Tom DeFalco (plot), Louise Simonson (script) Pencils & Inks: Steve Lightle Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Xartans spy on the Avengers and transform themselves into duplicates of them. Zano plans to take vengeance on them for a previous defeat. Instead, they come across Ship and decide to attack X-Factor, who hold back so as not to hurt the Avengers. The aliens have prepared for X-Factor, but not for the kids, who help defeat them, and Ship places them in stasis. Scott and Jean decide to send the kids to boarding school, to be among normal humans. Hodge contacts N'astirh using one of Belasco's rituals. They make a deal: power in exchange for the sacrifice of mutant babies. Hank is still comatose from Infectia's attack last issue. Issue: X-Factor 33 Date: Oct-88 Story: For All the World to See (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Skids, Leech, Rictor, Boom Boom, Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: The Alliance of Evil: Tower, Frenzy, Time-Shadow, Stinger; Nanny and Orphan-Maker; Freedom Force: Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Pyro, Spiral, Spiderwoman, Destiny; Commander Cameron Hodge Other Characters: Trish Tilby; Tammy and Sheila Blake 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: The Alliance of Evil protest the Mutant Registration Act by acts of public violence. Foreshadowing the Inferno crossover, inanimate objects are acting up all over the city. The kids are to be sent to Andover for summer school, and Boom Boom is attacked by a sweater. Orphan-Maker kidnaps the mutant children Tammy and Sheila from their beds at night and kills their parents. Jean, Bobby, and the kids battle the Alliance. Hank emerges from his coma, with his reason and his beast-like form restored, and helps in the defeat of the Alliance. Freedom Force appears, arrests the Alliance, and orders X-Factor to sign the Mutant Registration forms. Rusty refuses, but he decides to turn himself in to the navy. Issue: X-Factor 34 Date: Nov-88 Story: Death! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl Regular Characters: Ship Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: Commander Cameron Hodge and the Right; N'astirh and subservient demons; Nanny and Orphan-Maker (Peter) Other Characters: Candy Southern 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: Warren attacks the Right's Smile-Faces and forces them to reveal that they are holding Candy and performing experiments on her. Hodge sends demons against him, but he pushes through to face Hodge himself. Nanny sends Orphan-Maker to kidnap mutant babies before the Right can do so. The kids have been shipped off to school, and Hank is helping the Avengers. Ship and Scott have determined that Nathan is being held in Nebraska, in the orphanage where Scott was raised. He and Jean fly there. Hodge admits his admiration and jealousy of Warren and claims divine support. He removes Candy from life support, and Warren decapitates him. Issue: X-Factor 35 Date: Dec-88 Story: Go to the Orphan Maker! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Ship Guest Stars: Villains: Nanny, Orphan-Maker and children helpers: Shatter-Box (Jean's niece Gailyn), Speed-Freak, Monitor, Big Top, Bonzo; N'astirh's demons Other Characters: Lefty (real name Nathan, in flashback); Nathan Christopher Summers Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Joe Rubinstein Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Petra Scotese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Foreshadowing the Inferno crossover, a truck comes to life and attacks Bobby and Hank. Jean and Scott, searching for Nathan Christopher, arrive at the orphanage in Nebraska where Scott was raised and find mutant children in a zombie-like state. Scott reminisces about being beaten by the other orphans, led by Lefty, and realizes that his memories are jumbled. In the basement they find infants frozen in coffin-like stasis chambers. Nanny has children kidnap the infants while she and Orphan Maker attack Scott and Jean. The demons steal the infants, including Nathan Christopher, from Nanny's team, and take them to N'astirh and the Goblin Queen. Nanny pursues, intent on saving the infants, and Scott and Jean are close behind. Issue: X-Factor 36 Date: Jan-89 Story: Transformations! (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Angel/Death Villains: N'astirh and his demons, including Crotus; Madelyn Pryor the Goblin Queen; Cameron Hodge (in the background) Other Characters: Trish Tilby, cameraman Rick, Candy Southern 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 Inferno crossover, and Manhattan is a demonic parody of itself, compliments N'astirh. Hank and Bobby defeat a hot dog stand and a fire hydrant, respectively, and Trish confesses she is having a hard time dealing with Hank as Beast. She is swallowed by a runaway subway train turned worm, and Hank and Bobby follow. She helps them electrocute the train with its own third rail. Warren mourns Candy's death. Jean uses her renascent telepathic ability to track Christopher back to Manhattan, in time to see N'astirh's demons emerge from Limbo. They are joined in beating back the demons by Hank, Bobby, and Warren, who rejoins the team. Jean warns that Christopher is in danger, and they race to his rescue. Issue: X-Factor 37 Date: Feb-89 Story: A Matter of Honor (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel/Death Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Wolverine Villains: N'astirh and his demons; Madelyn Pryor the Goblin Queen; (Mr. Sinister in the background) Other Characters: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers 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 Inferno crossover. N'astirh reappears, nastier and more powerful than ever, having acquired the Transmode Virus. He brings Christopher to Madelyn, who accuses Scott of never really wanting her and accuses Jean of stealing everything she is. When she attacks Jean, N'astirh intervenes. They fight, while demons attack X-Factor. Jean fails to get Nathan from Madelyn and is restrained by demonic versions of her own parents. Madelyn transforms back to her normal self, but keeps Nathan, and Wolverine appears. Issue: X-Factor 38 Date: Mar-89 Story: Duet! (48 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel/Death/Dark Angel/Archangel Regular Characters: Guest Stars: The X-Men: Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Rogue, Psylocke. Villains: N'astirh and his demons; Madelyn Pryor the Goblin Queen, Havok as her Goblin Prince, Dazzler and Longshot under her control; (Mr. Sinister in the background) Other Characters: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part of the Inferno crossover. Atop the demonized Empire State Building, Madelyn plans to sacrifice Nathan and other infants to make a permanent bridge from Limbo to earth, and also to avenge herself on Scott, who abandoned her. Madelyn "brings out the demon" in the X-Men and X-Factor, who are soon battling each other instead of her. Storm accuses Scott of having betrayed Xavier's dream by leading a team of mutant hunters, but he convinces her that it was all Cameron Hodge's doing. Dazzler and Longshot attack Angel, who is tempted to join Madelyn but instead frees Jean and Wolverine. Havok attacks Scott while Jean tries to get Nathan away from Madelyn, who encloses them both in a force bubble. She reveals that she was created by Sinister, a clone of Jean with memories implanted by the Phoenix after it died on the moon. Sinister set her up to marry and breed with Scott, and when Jean returned, he attempted to eradicate her, but she fled to the X-Men. She "died" with them and took charge of their computer systems to help alienate them from X-Factor. Finally, she allied herself with demons. Scott, Dazzler, and Havok break through Madelyn's force bubble. She explodes like a bomb, trying to kill all of them, but the X-Men use their powers to shield each other, and she succeeds only in killing herself. A piece of the Phoenix appears and returns Madelyn's memories to Jean. The demons vanish, and New York returns to its normal, slightly less than demonic state. Beast refuses to allow Warren to keep the name Dark Angel, instead calling him Archangel. X-Factor vows to find and stop Sinister. Issue: X-Factor 39 Date: Apr-89 Story: Ashes to Ashes (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel/Death, called "Deathangel" by Sinister. Regular Characters: Guest Stars: The X-Men: Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Rogue, Psylocke, Havok, Dazzler, Longshot. Villains: Mr. Sinister and the Marauders: Polaris under the control of Malice, Sabretooth. Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Walter Simonson Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Gregory Wright Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part of the Inferno crossover. Sinister and Polaris have defeated most of X-Factor and the X-Men (Uncanny X-Men 243), and Sinister has Jean captive. As the fight is renewed, each hero confronts Sinister in turn and is defeated again. Scott realizes that Sinister had visited him when he was a child, triggered his optic blast, and put him in a coma. Sinister controlled the orphanage where Scott and Havok were raised, he created Madelyne Pryor as a Jean's clone, later destroyed her and abducted her child. He placed blocks in Scott's mind and gave him his first ruby quartz glasses to control his optic blast. Warren defeats Malice/Polaris, while the rest of the heroes free Jean. Havok blasts Scott, recharging him, while accusing him of being Sinister's puppet in order to enrage him and free him from Sinister's mind control. When Sinister tries to capture Jean again, Scott blasts him into little pieces and declares him "gone forever." Issue: X-Factor 40 Date: May-89 Story: Dust to Dust (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers (an infant); Ship; The X-Terminators (from the limited series): Rusty Collins, Arthur Maddicks, Leech, Rictor, Skids, Boom Boom, Taki. Guest Stars: Freedom Force: Mystique, Pyro, Blob Villains: Nanny and Orphan-Maker Other Characters: 10 infants from Inferno; John and Elaine Grey; their grandchildren Galen (previously called Gailyn) and Joseph "Joey" Bailey, and other of Nanny's "Lost Boys and Girls" Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Rob Liefeld Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: X-Factor return from the funeral of Madelyn Pryor. Bobby takes Leech, Arthur, and Taki back to school. Jean, Scott, Hank, and Warren take the ten babies abducted during Inferno to Washington, to hand them over to the FBI. Nanny and the Orphan-Maker observe and then attack. Warren fells Nanny, and the Orphan-Maker relates her tale: she was a mutant and a cyborg scientist working for the Right. When she discovered the Right was destroying mutants, she tried to stop them, was imprisoned in one of her own cyborgs, and went mad. She saved Orphan-Maker from Sinister and has since been abducting mutant children to keep them safe and under control. Jean finds these "Lost Boys and Girls", including Galen and Joey (abducted in iss. 35), hanging unconscious in Nanny's ship, and frees them, but their minds are still controlled by Nanny's pixie dust. Nanny and the Orphan-Maker escape by teleportation. Freedom Force takes charge of the infants and children and informs X-Factor that Rusty Collins will be remanded to them until trial.
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