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Issue: X-Factor 41 Date: Jun-89 Story: Golden Boy! (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers (an infant); Ship; the X-Terminators: Boom Boom, Rusty Collins, Skids, Rictor; the New Mutants: Cannonball, Warlock, Dani (and her flying horse Brightwind), Rahne, Sunspot Guest Stars: Thomas Jones (later known as Alchemy), his mother, and his sister Ellie Villains: Troll Associates: Phy, Phough, Phumm, Phay, Phee Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Arthur Adams Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Aboard Ship, X-Factor holds a training session with the New Mutants. Boom Boom has a crush on Cannonball, and Dani is not feeling well. In London, Phy abducts Thomas Jones, a boy with the ability to turn things into gold (or any other element). His mother calls on X-Factor for help. They take baby Christopher along and follow a trail of transmuted gold objects to the troll's lair under a bridge. They are defeated and bound with golden chains. Troll Associates has been established to destroy the economy by creating a glut of gold, and thereby regain control of England. Issue: X-Factor 42 Date: Jul-89 Story: All That Glitters... (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers. Guest Stars: Thomas Jones (Alchemy), his mother. Villains: Trolls: Phy, Phough, Phumm, Phay, Phee Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Arthur Adams Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Phy leads the trolls aboveground to begin their takeover of the English economy. Phay and Phumm, while guarding X-Factor, try to crush Christopher, but he protects himself with a force bubble. The trolls decide to force Tom to turn the queen of England into gold and attack Buckingham Palace but are turned back by loud guns and bright lights. X-Factor free themselves and attack the trolls in the skies above London and in the tunnels of the underground. The trolls reach Tom's house and threaten his mother. He turns them to gold, and then to lead, and X-Factor places them as statues in Hyde Park. Tom takes the name Alchemy and plans to go to university to become a molecular biochemist. Issue: X-Factor 43 Date: Aug-89 Story: Kidnapped! (misspelled Kidnaped!) (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen: humanoid aliens including Lord Rask, Princes Seera, Jak, Swen, and Lev; The Rejects: monstrous aliens including Spak and unnamed Zharkah and Skak. Villains: "space gods" later identified as Celestials Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part 1 of Judgment War. Ship warns that it is under some form of attack and suddenly rockets into space. Jean suddenly breaks through Ship's shield and flies off into space, not remembering that she cannot breathe in a vacuum. She has the memories of both Phoenix and Madelyn Pryor and is having trouble reconciling it all. Ship goes through hyperspace to a planet that was advanced but has fallen into decay because of a protracted war. A Celestial appears in orbit and catches Ship in its hand, while transporting X-Factor to a battle on the planet's surface. Warren, now called Archangel, saves Seera but is captured by Rask and sentenced to death for daring to touch her. Hank joins the Rejects; Jean's telekinetic powers are neutralized by a Reject "Jammer" (Skak), who also blanks out Bobby's memory. He is captured by Lev; Christopher by a Chosen soldier. The battle is ended by the descent of Celestial from orbit, who lands with one foot directly over Scott. Issue: X-Factor 44 Date: Sep-89 Story: Another World! (28 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; The Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Zheops (deceased), and his wife Wilghe; the Neakj Clan including Murke; the Beginagains including Zalph and an unnamed Ryest. Villains: "space gods" later identified as Celestials Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part 2 of Judgment War. Scott blasts a hole in the ground to avoid being crushed by the Celestial's foot (last iss.) and is helped by a Beginagain telepath (Ryest). Hank is mistaken for a Reject and taken by Zharkah to their city. Warren is a captive of the Chosen, mistaken for a Reject, and scheduled to battle in the Arena. Bobby is taken by Lev and mistaken for a Dualer - a being with 2 natures, both Chosen and Reject. Jean has been captured by the Neakj Clan and is still unconscious since being jammed. Seera and a science robot discuss the nature of this world: rather than physical reproduction, the Chosen are grown in vats by scientists. Imperfect babies are exiled to the Reject city. She buys Christopher from the soldier who captured him and plans to raise him as her own. The Beginagains are an coalition of Chosen and Rejects who want to live in peace. They tell Scott that their world has been visited five times by the Celestials for unknown reasons. Issue: X-Factor 45 Date: Oct-89 Story: Arena! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; The Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Wilghe, Agrom, Zheopah, and Nikoh; the Neakj Clan including Murke, the Djade tribe; the Beginagains including Zalph and unnamed Ryest and his son Dykon. Villains: Celestials Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part 3 of Judgment War. The Chosen force Warren to fight Agrom in the arena (and on page 6 he is mistakenly drawn headless). He defeats the giant but refuses to kill him, instead attacking the Chosen, and is restrained. Seera believes Warren's story that he is from another world and identifies Bobby and Jean as his friends. Whilge gives birth to a daughter, Zheopah, who soon dies. Most babies die on this planet. Seera sneaks food for baby Christopher; Hank plans an attack on the Chosen city to free Warren; Bobby bests Lev and Rask in turn in the practice room and is scheduled to challenge Warren in the Arena. Issue: X-Factor 46 Date: Nov-89 Story: Exchange (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; The Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Wilghe, Agrom, Nikoh, Wrakk, and Largh; the Neakj Clan including Murke, the Djade tribe; the Beginagains including Zalph, Ryest, and Dykon. Villains: Celestials Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is part 4 of Judgment War. Hank trains with the Rejects. The Beginagains show Scott that Jean is being held by the Rejects and is about to be part of a prisoner exchange. Hank finds Jean and is arrested as a Chosen spy. Rask has Seera arrested, accusing her of having stolen baby Christopher from the Chosen creches. The baby's cries telekinetically awaken Jean, who is barely contained by the Reject Jammers. She is not quite herself. Ship realizes that it was not created by Apocalypse but stolen by him from the Celestials. Issue: X-Factor 47 Date: mid Nov-89 Story: Guardian (31 pages) Feature Characters: Archangel Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Michael Villains: Other Characters: Mr. Roth (Warren's teacher), Cameron Hodge and Chuck (his schoolmates); a cult leader named Philip, his wards Greg, Donny, Beth, Voodoo, Buzzsaw, Slimeball, Mohawk, Blowhard; Michael's dog Rusty, his father and his mother Karen. Credits: Writer: Kieron Dwyer Pencils: Kieron Dwyer Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Jim Novak Colors: Mike Rockwitz Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue is an interlude in the Judgment War. Warren is a captive of the Chosen and reminisces: as a child picked on by others and feeling alone, different, and separate. In New York City, the boy Michael heals a blind man, which starts a street fight. Greg and Donny take him to a home for young mutants run by Philip, who scans his mind. His father had beaten him as a child because he was a mutant. Warren breaks up a drug deal, but it turns out that a child (Greg) was selling drugs to an adult, so he flies off in disgust. He has a moral crisis about right and wrong. Philip beats Beth, who had tried to escape, and then has Michael heal her. She tries to escape again, and Philip has Michael use his power to un-heal her as punishment. Warren burst in through the window and is defeated by Philip's telepathy. Beth, also a telepath, fells Philip. Philip is arrested, the cult is broken up, and Michael and Beth remain in New York to try to help people, but choose not to be superheroes (they don't like spandex). Issue: X-Factor 48 Date: Dec-89 Story: Common Ground! (29 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; the Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Wilghe, Agrom, Nikoh, Wrakk, and Largh; the Neakj Clan including Murke, the Djade tribe; the Beginagains including Zalph, Ryest, and Dykon. Villains: Celestials Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue part 5 of Judgment War. Jean is brought to the common ground for a prisoner exchange, and when she is released, she attacks as Phoenix and is again restrained. Seera frees herself and Warren, using her emerging telepathic power, and tells him of Bobby and Christopher. They are recaptured by Rask. Scott and the Beginagains plan to attack and free Jean but are blocked by Celestials who surround the Chosen city. Hank escapes the Reject prison and is attacked by Agrom until the giant hears that Warren is his friend. He plans to lead the Rejects against the Chosen city. Ship debates whether or not he should try to stop the Celestials' judgment of this planet Issue: X-Factor 49 Date: mid Dec-89 Story: Power Struggle (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; the Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Wilghe, Agrom, Nikoh, his father Boomer, Wrakk, and Largh; the Neakj Clan including Murke, the Djade tribe; the Beginagains including Zalph, Ryest, Dykon, and Zank. Villains: Celestials, Apocalypse, an unnamed Loki Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Paul Smith Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue part 6 of Judgment War. Rask has arranged for Warren to battle the amnesiac Bobby in the arena. If he does not kill his friend, Seera will die. Palik blinds Warren to ensure that he, and his sponsor Rask, will lose. Hank and the Rejects join forces with Scott and the Beginagains. Bobby almost defeats Warren, but the duel is interrupted by the Beginagain's attack. Lev frees Seera before Rask can kill her, and she telepathically restores Bobby's memory. On Earth, Apocalypse observes that other super-villains are making strange alliances and deduces that a mastermind is controlling this struggle for dominance. Loki rewards his insight by offering to ally with him. Issue: X-Factor 50 Date: Jan-90 Story: Judgment Day (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: The Chosen including Princess Seera (and her robot ZZ-105), Lord Rask, Jak, Swen, Lev, and Lord Palik; the Rejects including Zharkah, old Vlon, Wilghe, Agrom, Nikoh, his father Boomer, Wrakk, and Largh; the Neakj Clan including Murke, the Djade tribe; the Beginagains including Zalph, Ryest, Dykon, Zank and Ketroc. Professor Xavier, Lilandra, Sikorsky. Villains: Celestials, including Arishem the Bringer of Doom; Apocalypse and Caliban, Loki. Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Rich Buckler Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: This issue part 7 of Judgment War. Hank and the Rejects' attempt to rescue Warren has developed into a regular brawl, which becomes a revolution when Lev and Seera convince the Dualers to rebel against the Chosen. Scott and the Beginagains learn of Christopher's whereabouts from a science robot and free him and Jean. Scott's presence helps Jean to suppress the personalities of Phoenix and Madelyn Pryor and regain her sanity. They together destroy the city's power supply, letting the Rejects in the arena attack the Chosen. Dykon is blinded by Palik and then forces him to remove his and Warren's blindness, enabling Warren to defeat Rask. The Celestial called Arishem descends from the sky, ready to destroy the planet with the formula of destruction on his thumb. Ship appears, to warn X-Factor that they should leave immediately, but they only give Christopher into its care. Jean wants to help save this world, to make up for the world that Phoenix destroyed. Ryest, Palik, and Zharkah unite the Beginagains, Chosen, and Rejects against the Celestials to save their planet. Jean melds all their minds together but is afraid that by holding so much power she will be corrupted by Phoenix, so Scott acts as her focus. His optic blast in the shape of a phoenix cuts off Arishem's hand. The Celestials depart, leaving behind another Ship to record the progress of this world. Jean had fed Phoenix and Madelyn into that blast as well, so she is now free of them, except for the memories. X-Factor return to their Ship, and in hyperspace pass by the ship containing Lilandra and a very ill Xavier. In his base below Mt. Everest, Apocalypse forces Loki to reveal himself, battles him, and drives him off with the help of an enhanced Caliban. Issue: X-Factor 51 Date: Feb-90 Story: Home! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: Morlocks: Chicken Wings, Mole Villains: Sabretooth; Apocalypse and Caliban Other Characters: (Rick) Carmichael and Opal (Tanaka), owner and employee of Acme Records in Manhattan; Officer (Charlotte) Jones of the NYPD; Trish Tilby (called Trilby) Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Sabretooth (thought killed in Uncanny X-Men 213) reappears, courtesy his healing factor. He is hunting Morlocks again, kills Chicken Wings, and chases Mole. Apocalypse observes and prevents Caliban from teleporting over and attacking him. Opal finds Mole hiding in the record store basement and harbors him. X-Factor return to Earth. Christopher says his first word: "ba" (ball). Ship decides to park upright, towering over Manhattan like a skyscraper. Police and reporters arrive by helicopter, crash into one another, and are rescued by X-Factor. Warren has difficulty controlling the aggression of his wings and wrecks the reporters' equipment. Caliban rebels against Apocalypse. He now has control of his "shadow power": he can absorb psionic power from the fear of his enemies and use it against them. He teleports to New York, and all this is part of Apocalypse's plan to make him so great a menace that all mutants unite against him. Issue: X-Factor 52 Date: Mar-90 Story: Celebrity! (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: Morlocks: Chicken Wings (deceased), Mole Villains: Sabretooth; Dr. August Hopper (the Locust) Other Characters: (Rick) Carmichael and Opal (Tanaka); Officer (Charlotte) Jones; Trish Tilby; Annie, a street person; Sifter, Rat, and another street thug Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Annie shows Jones the body of Chicken Wings, and Warren saves her from an attack by street thugs. Sabretooth shoots him out of the sky with an assault rifle, and they slash each other with poisoned claw and feather until they both drop unconscious. Scott and Jean, Hank and Trish dine at Windows on the World and are attacked by giant cockroaches that burst through those windows. X-Factor kill many roaches and arrest their creator, the mad scientist Hopper. Bobby, baby-sitting Christopher, goes to the Acme Record store to buy CD's and asks Opal out for dinner. Issue: X-Factor 53 Date: Apr-90 Story: Ghosts (31 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: Mole Villains: Sabretooth; Caliban Other Characters: Opal (Tanaka); Officers (Charlotte) Jones and her partner Seth; Trish Tilby; a doorman named George Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Caliban, hunting Sabretooth, finds the unconscious Warren instead. They fight, Caliban trying to prove his superiority to Apocalypse's previous creation. Warren scars his face but is nearly killed. Scott and Jean take a romantic walk through Central Park, and, standing by Belvedere Castle, he proposes marriage, but she says no. She has to sort out her own mind, filled as it is with the memories of Phoenix and Madelyn Pryor. Bobby and Opal walk toward her place in Soho, trailed by Mole, who is suspicious of Bobby's intentions. He and Bobby fight until Opal intervenes. Mole returns to the sewers, where Sabretooth is waiting to kill him. Issue: X-Factor 54 Date: May-90 Story: Crimson (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Nathan Christopher Summers; Ship Guest Stars: Villains: Crimson Other Characters: Officer (Charlotte) Jones (who is mistakenly drawn as a white woman on page 1); Opal (Tanaka); Peter Rasputin (Colossus, of the X-Men), his friends Jennifer and Philip; Frederik Spense, Gerhard's agent Credits: Writer: Louise Simonson Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Warren has been taken to St. Vincent's hospital but is still drugged, delusional, and violent. The rest of X-Factor arrives, help subdue him, and return him to Ship. Bobby, Hank, Opal, Crimson, and an amnesiac Peter attend a party together at an art gallery (displaying Gerhard's sculptures). Crimson is a type of vampire, using her victims' memories of pain to kill them. She attacks Hank, making him remember the moment he turned blue and furry, but Hank has reconciled himself to this pain, so she moves on to Peter. She attacks him on the roof of the building, and Hank intervenes. Warren awakens and flees Ship because that is where Apocalypse transformed him into Archangel. Jean leaves for awhile, to get her head together. Issue: X-Factor 55 Date: Jun-90 Story: Desperately Seeking Vera (30 pages) Feature Characters: Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Archangel Regular Characters: Ship Guest Stars: Villains: Mesmero; Infectia Other Characters: Opal (Tanaka); Vera Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Terry Shoemaker, Colleen Doran Inks: Allen Milgrom Letters: Joe Rosen Colors: Tom Vincent Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Three times, Hank comes across Vera, his ex-librarian ex-girlfriend, who is now a street-walker/cellist/hot dog vendor and does not know him. He is attacked by a monster inside a hot dog cart. Mesmero reveals himself as the cause of this confusion. Vera frees herself from his mind-control, and Hank defeats his goons, who turn to ashes. Vera is actually now a teacher and aware of Hank's relationship with Trish. Infectia observes, having been the one who hired Mesmero to attack Hank. Meanwhile, Warren is still missing and delusional.
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