| Home | Overview | What's New | Timelines | Indexes | Works Cited | Contact Us | Guest Book | Awards | Links | Badges |

Index to X-Factor, including annuals and related material: 6 / 14

Author: Robert Diehl
Created:
Updated: Version 3.2, last modified April 10, 2001

Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Next
Issue:	X-Factor 71
Date:	Oct-91
Story:	Cutting the Mustard (29 pages)
Feature Characters:	Alex Summers (Havok), Lorna Dane (Polaris), Guido Carosella
(eventually Strong Guy), Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man), Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane),
Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)
Regular Characters:	Valerie "Val" Cooper, Lockjaw the Inhuman dog
Guest Stars:	Scott Summers (Cyclops), Professor Charles Xavier; Benjamin Grimm
(The Thing), in flashback
Villains:	Senator Steven Shaffran (Ricochet, in the background)
Other Characters:	
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Note: This is the beginning of a new team, concurrent with the
reorganization of all the X-teams.
	Lorna tells Guido her fears about being teamed with Alex, her erstwhile lover.
Guido flirts with her.
	Val goes to Genosha to convince Alex to lead the new team, but fails even
after standing under a falling girder. Xavier arrives with Scott, lectures Alex,
and tells him Lorna will be on the team. That changes his mind, and he flies back
to Washington, taking Rahne with him.
	Pietro gets Lockjaw to transport him down from the Blue Area of the moon,
defuses a terrorist bomb, and announces his power is making him age. He joins the
team, wanting help in tracking down the evil individual who did this to him. (How
the postcard from the evil individual reached the moon is not elaborated.)
	Jamie plays a practical joke: an un-open-able mayo jar. He is hit in the gut
with a shotgun blast, crashes through his window, and falls many stories to the
ground.

Issue:	X-Factor 72
Date:	Nov-91
Story:	Multiple Homicide (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper, Lockjaw
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	Prof. Vic Chalker; Senator Steven Shaffran (Ricochet) and Mr.
Sinister (in the shadows, last seen pulverized by Cyclops in X-Factor 39)
Other Characters:	reporter Ariel O'Hare, Guido's masseuse Babette
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Jamie's death is reported on the news. Val screams, Pietro jokes.
Lockjaw ports the team to the crime scene, where they finds a dead Jamie and a
live one. He is beside himself when he fails to reabsorb his dupe. He now
realizes they may have their own thoughts and feelings and be real people.
	Chalker sees them on TV and plans the destruction of all mutants (although,
with a face like that, why should he complain about green hair?)
	Lorna tries to get back together with Alex. Instead, they rescue a mother and
child from a burning building, then they kiss, which makes Rahne jealous.
	Val holds a press conference announcing the disbanding of Freedom Force and
the establishment of X-Factor. Guido picks the codename Strong Guy, and Jamie is
accused by a man in the crowd who claims to be him.

Issue:	X-Factor 73
Date:	Dec-91
Story:	Crowd Control (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Kermit the Frog (on display in the Smithsonian)
Villains:	Prof. Vic Chalker; Senator Steven Shaffran (Ricochet, in the shadows)
Other Characters:	Ariel O'Hare
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	From last issue, Jamie fights Jamie, breaking up the press conference
and producing 38 more multiples, and the riot spreads out into the street.
X-Force render all the Jamies unconscious, which makes all but two disappear.
	Guido makes an impassioned statement to the press attacking labels and
prejudice against mutantkind, and makes up the term "genetically challenged."
	Chalker finishes building an exo-skeleton to combat mutants, but it doesn't
fit him.
	Lorna warns Alex not to be so serious, like his brother Scott.
	After interrogating the Jamies, they are still unable to determine which is
the original.
	An evil individual plans to use his "ricochet abilities" on Guido next.

Issue:	X-Factor 74
Date:	Jan-92
Story:	Politically Incorrect (29 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	Senator Steven Shaffran (Ricochet), Mr. Sinister (impersonating
Edmond Atkinson); Nasty Boy Slab
Other Characters:	Mrs. Shaffran; their daughter, their maid Dora; Baldrick
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	The team is sleeping over at Guido's mansion. Guido moans Kim
Basinger's name (and sleeps hanging upside down on gym equipment); Alex moans
Lorna's (and Rahne wakes him); Pietro moans Crystal's (and sleeps with a teddy
bear). Alex tells Lorna that Rahne has a crush on him.
	Val calls in Atkinson, who is her ex and a polygraph expert. He determines
that Jamie #1 is the fake, so Val releases #2.
	Slab is on top of the Washington Monument, holding hostages and calling for
Guido. X-Factor arrives, and Slab fights and insults Guido, who accidentally
knocks the Monument apart and calls down the wrath of Senator Shaffran. Pietro,
meanwhile, has collapsed from exertion.

Issue:	X-Factor 75
Date:	Feb-92
Story:	The Nasty Boys (45 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Villains:	Senator Steven Shaffran (Ricochet) and Mr. Sinister (impersonating
Edmond Atkinson); The Nasty Boys: Slab, Gorgeous George, Hairbag, Ruckus, Ramrod;
Prof. Vic Chalker
Other Characters:	Baldrick
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Guido is arrested for demolishing the Washington Monument (last
issue), and, humiliated, he has to be convinced by Alex to stay with the team.
	Ramrod and Ruckus knock over a convenience store.
	Jamie #2 reabsorbs #1, leaves the team, and gets into Atkinson's car, who is
really Sinister. #2 had made a deal with him, to take over the Jamies and become
the primary personality. Shaffran is revealed to have the mutant power to make
others screw up, and plans to use it to become president.
	A doctor examines a much-aged Pietro and says he is just under too much
stress.
	Chalker has refitted his exo-skeleton, but the batteries wear down, and he is
stuck inside.
	Alex realizes that someone has been messing with their powers, and that they
released the wrong Jamie.
	The original Jamie reasserts himself and replaces his multiple. The Nasty Boys
immediately attack him until Sinister lets him go. He thinks Jamie will attack
the Senator, and tells the Nasty Boys be there for it. X-Factor also arrives, and
battle ensues, up and into the capitol. Shaffran reveals himself as a mutant and
flies off.
	Sinister reveals that he manipulated Shaffron into being revealed as an evil
mutant, and that he wants Alex and Lorna to be acclaimed as heroes. He suggests
Shaffron kill himself, but he shoots at Sinister, instead. He is killed by a
ricochet.
	Note: a 2-page spread of the old and new teams is included

Issue:	X-Factor 76
Date:	Mar-92
Story:	X-Communication (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	The Pantheon: Hector, Ulysses, Prometheus, Atalanta, Ajax
Other Characters:	Farnoq Dahn, Jolel, his sister Sandah
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Rom Raney, Kevin West
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Note: Hulk 391 precedes this issue.
	In the country of Trans-Sabal, X-Factor is fighting for Farnoq Dahn against
rebels called the Liberators, led by the Pantheon, who have the Hulk as an ally.
	An unconscious Rahne is captured by locals, and Alex and the Hulk are missing
after their fight.
	Lorna, Jamie, and Guido defeat the Pantheon, while Pietro finds Rahne, who was
in a cultural debate with Jolel. Prometheus attacks them, Sandah helps Rahne
escape, so Jolel kills her. Rahne loses her temper and kills Jolel.

Issue:	X-Factor 77
Date:	Apr-92
Story:	Great X-Pectations (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Samuel Zachery Guthrie (Cannonball)
Villains:	Nasty Boys Hairbag, Slab; Stryfe and the MLF: Zero, Thumbelina,
Wildside, Reaper, Forearm, Strobe, Tempo; Prof. Vic Chalker
Other Characters:	Dr. Tucker, Julio and Mrs. Cortez; Mr. Claudius; Public
Defender Victoria "Vicky" Wang
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Tucker tells the Cortez's that their baby may be a mutant.
	Wang, Claudius, and Val debate the civil rights of evil mutants, while the MLF
break Hairbag and Slab out of X-Factor's installation. (Slab is Thumbelina's
brother Kris.) As they escape, Rahne snags Stryfe's arm through Zero's portal,
and X-Factor almost capture him. Instead, they just get his left gauntlet.
	Chalker has super-powered his exo-skeleton, but he left wiring exposed and is
electrocuted when it rains.
	Val and Alex debrief Jamie about the Nasty Boys and realize that Sinister is
alive.
	Sam flies in and offers to take Rahne back to X-Force, but she likes Alex
better than Cable. Lorna chooses to let Sam leave, angering Alex.
	Stryfe plans to have the MLF kill Tucker and destroy his clinic, before unborn
mutants can be detected.

Issue:	X-Factor 78
Date:	May-92
Story:	Playing with Fire! (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Scott Summers (Cyclops), Prof. Charles Xavier
Villains:	Stryfe and the MLF: Zero, Thumbelina, Wildside, Reaper, Forearm,
Strobe, Tempo; Mr. Sinister, Nasty Boy Hairbag
Other Characters:	Dr. Tucker, Victoria Wang
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman, Brandon Peterson
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: David Sharpe
	Colors: Mike Thomas
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Tempo warns Tucker that he is about to be attacked. Val shows
X-Factor their new Danger Room, but they think it's hokey.
	Val, in uniform, leads the team to Tucker's clinic in Kansas, which is being
attacked by the MLF. Rahne, for moral reasons, and Pietro, for personal ones, opt
out of the mission.
	The MLF slice through the police, kill Tucker, and start searching for his
research materials.
	X-Factor arrives and beats off the MLF. Rahne helps Lorna, feeling she was in
her debt from last issue. Lorna lest Rahne destroy Tucker's research. Reaper
loses a leg in escaping. Pietro regrets not at first appreciating his human
daughter Crystal.

Issue:	X-Factor 79
Date:	Jun-92
Story:	Rhapsody in Blue (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Sean Young as Catwoman
Villains:	Rachel Argosy (Rhapsody); Hells Belle Marilyn Maycroft (Shrew); Cyber
Other Characters:	Harry and Mrs. Sharp; Dick and Margaret Roper; police captain
O'Day, commissioner Bill Warden
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Jim Fern
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Sharp's wife finds him dead, and Rhapsody looking in the window. When
the police try to catch her, she plays a violin and flies away.
	Pietro teaches himself the piano to win a $20 bet from Guido, who leaves on a
date with Sean Young. Lorna, window-shopping, is attacked by Cyber and
hospitalized in serious condition.
	Rhapsody was a school teacher whose mutancy developed as an adult. The school
board fired her, led by Harry, and now she is suspected of murder. Pietro and
Jamie help the police get her, but she pulls out a flute and makes them
hallucinate. She doesn't get all Jamie's duplicates, however, and is captured.
She claims innocence, and Jamie convinces Pietro to side with her.

Issue:	X-Factor 80
Date:	Jul-92
Story:	Belles + Whistles (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	Rachel Argosy (Rhapsody); Hells Belle Marilyn Maycroft (Shrew),
FlambČ, Vague, Briquette, Tremolo; Cyber
Other Characters:	
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Michael Heisler
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
	"Rahne's World" gag suggested by: Myra David
Synopsis:	Rahne falls asleep waiting in the hospital and dreams her own version
of Wayne's World. Lorna is awake, with her jaw wired shut, and remembers that her
attacker mentioned Maycroft.
	Jamie and Pietro try to vindicate the imprisoned Rhapsody. They search Roper
and Sharp's office and confront Roper, and Jamie uses his duplicates to observe
him continuously. Rhapsody, meanwhile, uses a policeman's harmonica music to
strangle him.
	Guido, Alex, and Rahne guard Shrew, who is testifying against her former
employers, a drug cartel. They fight off the other Belles, but Cyber scratches
Guido with poison. If Shrew is not turned over in nine hours, he dies.

Issue:	X-Factor 81
Date:	Aug-92
Story:	Belles of the Ball (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	Rachel Argosy (Rhapsody); Hells Belle Marilyn Maycroft (Shrew),
FlambČ, Vague, Briquette, Tremolo; Cyber
Other Characters:	Sgt. Murphy, Bart Coswell; Genoshan refugees (eventually
X-Patriots)
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Larry Stroman
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Kevin Tinsley
	Colors: Rich S.
	Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Briquette overheats the boiler, so X-Factor has to evacuate the
hotel, but it explodes with Guido inside. He emerges from the rubble, pounds the
ground to release excess kinetic energy, and explains that he has been poisoned.
	Rhapsody breaks out of jail and flies off with Jamie. She admits killing Sharp
(too much ecstasy), so Jamie and Pietro return her to prison.
	Val gets a doctor to prepare an antidote for Guido, but he doesn't trust it.
He would rather give the crooked Shrew up rather than risk his life. So Alex
drinks the same poison, putting his own life on the line, and they both drink the
antidote.
	Coswell tries to turn a Genoshan ship away from New York harbor, but a mutant
on board shames him for not welcoming immigrants and corrodes all the weapons to
dust.
	X-Factor meet with the Belles, pretend to give them Shrew, then attack and
defeat them with Shrew's help.
	Alex whispers to Pietro that he didn't really drink poison, just tap water.

Issue:	X-Factor 82
Date:	Sep-92
Story:	Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	
Villains:	The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants: Sauron, Toad, Pyro, Blob, Phantazia
Other Characters:	Marilyn Maycroft (Shrew); Bart Coswell; X-Patriots including
Prodigal, Lukas, Jo Beth (Pirouette)
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Rurick Tyler
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Richard Starkings
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Kelly Corvese
	Group Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Sauron comes alive (last seen dead in X-Force 9) beneath the same
dock at which a boatload of Genoshan refugees awaits entry to the US.
	Val berates Jamie for the Rhapsody fiasco (see issues 79-81), and Alex berates
Val for not talking to him first.
	Lorna returns from the hospital, jaw still wired but otherwise ready for
action.
	Shrew has testified safely. Guido reveals his last name is Carosella and gets
a kiss.
	The government wants to send the Genoshans back to their own country, but they
don't trust that things are better there since the X-Tinction Agenda. The
Brotherhood attacks and wants the Genoshans to join them. Pietro captures Toad
but is felled by Phantazia. X-Factor then attacks in earnest (leaving Pietro
temporarily twitching on the ground!). Sauron tells Rahne he killed Sam (X-Force
7, but he got better), and she transforms to wolf, striking out at Sauron and
Lorna.
	X-Force subdues the Brotherhood, and agrees to escort the Genoshans home to
prove that conditions there are okay.

Issue:	X-Factor 83
Date:	Oct-92
Story:	Painting the Town (30 pages)
Feature Characters:	Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane,
Quicksilver
Regular Characters:	Val Cooper
Guest Stars:	Jenny Ransome, Philip Moreau
Villains:	Cameron Hodge as an illusion; Prof. Rick Chalker
Other Characters:	Bart Coswell, X-Patriots including Prodigal, Lukas,
Pirouette, Taylor
Credits:	Writer: Peter David
	Pencils: Mark Pacella
	Inks: Al Milgrom
	Letters: Richard Starkings
	Colors: Glynis Oliver
	Editor: Kelly Corvese
	Group Editor: Bob Harras
	Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis:	Ransome and Moreau arrive to help the X-Patriots deal with the US
government, and Lukas attacks Moreau because his father was the Genegineer. Alex
knocks him down.
	Rahne, herself a mutate (see New Mutants 96), talks to the others. Alex offers
to escort the X-Patriots around New York, and forces Val to let him without legal
papers.
	Chalker, to avenge his brother Vic's death (iss. 77) has made himself Number
One Fan. With razor-sharp fan blades for hands, he is unable to open the door,
and when he angrily slaps his forehead, it isn't pretty.
	X-Factor split up, taking various Genoshans to the playground, a bar, the
Statue of Liberty, a disco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the museum,
Taylor starts a cold fire sculpture, is identified as a mutant, and beaten by
some locals wielding a baseball bat. Rahne weeps over him while Jamie gets an
ambulance.

Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Next

| Home | Overview | What's New | Timelines | Indexes | Works Cited | Contact Us | Guest Book | Awards | Links | Badges |

Chronology.Net was created and is maintained for personal use by Darren Duncan. All content and source code was created by me, unless otherwise stated. Content that I did not create is used with permission from the creators, who are appropriately credited where it is used and in the Works Cited section of this site.

You may not copy any text, graphics, layouts, code, or database structure from this site for use in any public forum unless I have given you written permission to do so. However, I encourage you to provide hyperlinks to this site. I have put years of hard work into the content of this website and consider it a valuable asset.

This site is not affiliated with Marvel Entertainment Group, who are the TM and copyright holders of the 'X-Men' and associated characters. Any references made on this site to said property constitutes fair use.