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Issue: X-Man -1 Date: Jul-97 Story: Breeding Ground (21 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Stan Lee Villains: AOA Sinister, Apocalypse, Dark Beast Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa, Wellington Diaz Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is a "Flashback" issue, introduced and concluded by Marvel creator Stan Lee. In a Nebraska orphanage, Sinister has a test- tube baby lab hidden from Apocalypse, in which he has created Nate as a fail-safe weapon. He takes him out to check under the hood, and decides to name him, after himself and Jean. Dark Beasts rings up, suspicious. Nate wanders off and sees memory-images of other orphans. Sinister searches for him, angry (no tracking implant?), and warns him of the dangers of the outside world. Nate psychically projects them to the gene pens and tries to stop them, but Sinister jams his signal, worried that the boy's powers are developing too fast. He gives the kid a teddy bear and puts him back in his nutrient bath. He decides to encode a fail-safe into Nate's DNA. Issue: X-Man 29 Date: Aug-97 Story: Dead Ahead (23 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam (Jasmine Archer, see iss. 34), Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Havok (Alex Summers), AOA Forge Villains: Fatale, Dark Beast (here called the Black Beast); Threnody, Madelyne Pryor II Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa, Wellington Diaz Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate dies from the CS-9 (iss. 28), and his soul ascends while the base automatically locks down. Dark Beast abandons Havok and Fatale, but she ports them to his other base. Threnody rises from the dead (iss. 25), in the Bronx morgue. Nate's soul yells at his own corpse for taking the easy way out. He sees Threnody, AOA Forge, and Maddie, too. It's a regular dead reunion. Nate reincorporates himself and blasts out of the base. His TK shorts out again, and he walks to Washington Square Park and collapses. Three girls pick him up, while Roust (iss. 20) goes to the loft with a warning for him, but he's not there. Issue: X-Man 30 Date: Sep-97 Story: Coming Home (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Cable Villains: Bastion and Prime Sentinels, Madelyne Pryor II Other Characters: John and Elaine Grey, Joey and Galen Bailey Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz, Cary Nord Inks: Bud LaRosa, Wellington Diaz Colors: Tom Vincent Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this ties into the Zero Tolerance crossover. The girls nurse Nate, but he's unconscious for days. Cable telepathically wakes him, warning of Zero Tolerance, and asks him to look after his sort-of cousins, Joey and Galen. Sentinels are in the loft, where John Grey has taken them, and he hurriedly sends them off with Roust. Nate shows up just in time, fells the Sentinels, sends John to tend to his wife, and goes after the boys, hiding under electronics in a maintenance shaft. A Sentinel finds them, and Nate zooms off with them under his arms. In Hong Kong, Maddie senses Nate's distress. Still tired from being dead and all, Nate is unable to get far, and the Sentinel catches up, now reconfigured to withstand Nate's powers. Nate takes control of another one, realizes it's human, and uses him to blast himself, projecting the illusion that they were all killed. He sends the Greys off and goes to find Roust. Issue: X-Man 31 Date: Oct-97 Story: The Last Innocent Mind (23 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: X-Men: Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine (all in flashback) Villains: Dire Wraiths including Jacob Marks (in flashback), Jimmy Marks (Hybrid) Other Characters: Jeb Hodges, Marjorie Seaton (both in flashback), Sheriff Stone, Dr. Hunsinger Credits: Writer: Mark Bernardo Pencils: Rick Leonardi Inks: Dan Green Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Dedicated To: Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscemo Synopsis: Nate he rescues a young boy in West Virginia, who is standing in the ruins of his house in a storm, and whose parents were attacked by the X-Men, who then attack Nate. He wakes, not understanding this recurring nightmare. He helps an old man who was shoved by kids in Washington Square Park, and in a newspaper sees a picture of the same boy. He goes to West Virginia and manipulates the cops into telling him the story: After the boy's family was killed, a farmer found him, and he was put in an orphanage, schizophrenic, amnesiac, and seemingly possessed. Then the orphanage blew up, and he was the only survivor. Nate senses that the boy is a mutant, with a psionic force field, then goes to the institute in up-state New York where the boy was sent. The boy welcomes him, and Nate enters his mind and finds that Dire Wraiths had invaded earth, one had been stranded and taken the form of a human, married, and had a son, Jimmy, who the Wraiths trained to kill his parents. Nate has reincorporated its mind, and it reveals itself as Hybrid, previously defeated by the Spaceknight Rom. It gloats over having tricked him and attacks him with TK. Nate fakes defeat, then reenters its mind, trying to reach his human side. He realizes it's long gone, so he just pulverizes the thing. Issue: X-Man 32 Date: Nov-97 Story: Catching Up from Behind (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Villains: Jackknife (Jack Cole), Threnody Other Characters: Officer Quintin B. Grimes; Joust, Watts, the Abomination (all in flashback) Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa, Wellington Diaz Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Albert Deschesne Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate goes to the Limelight, a dance club in a converted cathedral, with the three girls who nursed him (iss. 30). He hears sobbing that no one else hears, the band recognizes him as a local celebrity and gets him to sing on stage, then he gets picked up by Marita's parole officer (Westchester, this ain't). Roust is looking for Nate, while Jackknife stalks Washington Square Park, killing a cop. He was a homeless man who heard voices and was taken in by the Forgotten; then he got worse and killed Joust. Roust sneaks into the club just in time to point Jackknife out to Nate. Jack attacks Nate, as an otherworldly threat to all. Threnody sits enthroned on the dead that Jack has killed. Issue: X-Man 33 Date: Dec-97 Story: Blood Will Tell (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Villains: Jackknife (Jack Cole) Other Characters: Joust, Watts, the Abomination, Threnody (all in flashback) Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/ST Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate and Jackknife fight in mid-air in the Limelight, scaring off all the customers. Nate's psionic shields don't hold, and he starts to worry. Jackknife attacks the bystanders, so Nate distracts him with a right uppercut. Cole had been a low-level telepath, hearing voices in his head, so everyone thought him crazy. When Nate fought Abomination (iss. 20), Cole's mind finally broke, and he started killing everyone who came into contact with Nate. Nate implodes the club, tosses vehicles, and explodes gas mains, but Jackknife survives. So he wraps him in electrical cables and fries his brain. The cops arrive; Nate gives them Jackknife to help. They begin to arrest Nate, but the crowd vouches for him. Issue: X-Man '97 Date: 1997 Story: Common Ground (38 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Majestrix Lilandra Neramani, Jahf Villains: Holocaust (Nemesis), Dark Beast, Sugarman Other Characters: Shi'ar including Cmdr. Kai'tra, High Priest Dar'bikk Credits: Writer: Christopher Golden Pencils, Inks: Ramon Bernardo Colors: Tom Vincent Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Jahf warns Lilandra that power is being siphoned from the M'Kraan crystal to somewhere on earth. She sends a team to investigate, and they find Dark Beast and Nemesis, who resist. Nate notices the battle, just as other Shi'ar attack him, then protest that they just wanted to talk, then knock him out with a psi-bomb. Captive, they are taken to the cruiser Wingspan, in orbit. Sugarman is there, gloating that he helped capture them all. Dar'bikk shows up and plans to drain all the M'Kraan energies from them and execute them as heretics. Dark Beast gets them all to work together and convince Sugarman to free them, and they fight their way out. Their alliance doesn't last long, though, and Nate fights Nemesis, rips the shard of M'Kraan from his armor, and pulverizes it. All the energy returns to this universe's M'Kraan crystal, and Nemesis's armor flickers on and off. He and Dark Beast find a teleportation device and blast a hole in the ship as they leave. Nate uses TK to cover the breach until the blast doors close. The Shi'ar are still angry, until Lilandra sends a hologram dismissing Nate with thanks, for restoring the crystal. Note: a pin-up of Nate and Nemesis follows. Issue: X-Man: All Saints' Day Date: 1997 Story: All Saints' Day (48 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Trish Tilby Villains: Countess Absynthia "Cindy" von Mort, Boniface, Augustine; Esteban Diablo (in flashback) Other Characters: Jerome, Lydia Lumet; Sebastian Kraus, Teresa Gregor Credits: Writer: Ben Raab Pencils: Terry Dodson Inks: Rachel Dodson Colors: Lee Ann Garner Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The day after Halloween, Nate is on a train in Transylvania, on a mission of mercy for Jerome, a kid with leukemia in New York. A loony old woman told him that Absynthia found the secret of immortality and could cure the boy. He meets a newlywed couple from Germany with a prosthetic hand and leg who are seeking the same woman's help. They meet her creepy assistants Boniface and Augustine, and Absynthia herself, who is green but otherwise looks like the portrait of her great-grandmother. The Germans are actually Interpol, working on a mass murder case. Teresa sees Lumet, a kidnapped socialite, delivered by truck at night, and is killed by Augustine. Nate senses her death, while Sebastian pulls a gun and tries to arrest Absynthia. She admits being a mad scientist, puts goo in his mouth, and makes him her immortal henchman. Nate fights him, Augustine, and Boniface, and gets taken captive. Absynthia tells her story: in 1810 her husband Count Victor died, and she studied mysticism to resurrect him but failed. Diablo befriended her and pretended to give her poison to end her sorrow, but instead made her immortal. Sebastian grabs Boniface's pistol: he had been faking all along, and now he wants to suicide to rejoin Teresa. Nate isn't quick enough to stop him, but he does put a TK bubble around Absynthia's other captives as her lab explodes. She is arrested, and Nate goes back to New York and shoots hoops with Jerome. Issue: X-Man 34 Date: Jan-98 Story: Messiah Complex Part 1: The Ride (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Villains: the Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave) Other Characters: Gregg, Brannigan, Dr. Marcus Arlington III, nurse Laura Lanning, Matthew T. Barker, Stacy Seville Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In the wee hours of the morning, a cab hits a motorcycle, with fatalities. Nate is in Washington Square Park, a local hero. He catches some pickpockets and continues doing miracles for the crowd. Marita runs up: Jam was also on the motorcycle, and her arm was cut off. They rush to the hospital, where Bux is ineffectually chanting with New Age vigor. Nate can't fix it, either, and he feels guilty for not having prevented it. The doctor comes in, and to his shock, Jam's arm has regenerated, and his next patient's bullet wound is also miraculously healed. Word spreads, and Nate, nonplussed, is mobbed by the press. The Purple Man observes and manipulates, planning to use Nate to take over the world. Issue: X-Man 35 Date: Feb-98 Story: Messiah Complex Part 2: Media Blitz (21 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson Villains: The Purple Man, Flag Smasher, the Destabilizers Other Characters: Dr. Marcus Arlington III Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Cross, Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Jam takes Nate to a women's basketball game, to thank him for fixing her arm. One of the Destabilizers appears: they are terrorists against nationalism. Nate reads his mind, realizes he has accomplices, shorts out all the electronics with a psi-burst, then picks them off one by one. He gets good press on TV and in the Bugle, over Jameson's objection. He finds Roust in the loft, and tells him he can't resurrect his brother. He watches the reports about him and sees a mother whose son he couldn't cure, so he blows up the TV. Dr. Arlington says Nate read his mind to cure Jam and offers to teach him to do more. He refuses this "calling", until Bux leads a parade to the loft, and the crowd changes his mind. Flag Smasher promised the Destabilizers promised they'd never go to jail: he rigged them to blow up as they are taken in. His ally, the Purple Man, is displeased and makes him jump off a cliff. Then he has his chauffeur, Bux, drive on. Issue: X-Man 36 Date: Mar-98 Story: Messiah Complex Part 3: Falling Star (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: AOA Forge, Soaron, Jason Wyngarde (all in flashback) Villains: The Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave); AOA Sinister, Holocaust (both in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Chriscross Inks: Bud LaRosa Synopsis: Nate has a nightmare: he is publicly lauded for stopping the terrorists (last iss.), then condemned for not saving the terrorists. He wakes, dumpster-dives for breakfast, then manipulates the angry crowd's minds to get back to the loft. He telepathically eavesdrops on his friends: they are worried because Bux is missing. He finds her, meditating: the Purple Man has used her as bait, and offers to ally with Nate, who attacks him but fails to make contact. Killgrave ends his illusions, including that of Jam's regenerated arm (iss. 34). He commands Nate to share his memories with him, then says all he wants is his family back. Nate creates a TK shield against Killgrave's pheromones, reads his mind, and finds not love of family but lust for power. He commands him to undo it all, but Killgrave can't raise the dead: he just points out the ruins all around them. Nate lowers his guard for a moment, and Killgrave disappears. Jam is disconsolate; Nate is a failure. Issue: X-Man 37 Date: Apr-98 Story: Breaking Point (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Peter Parker (Spider-Man); Gwen Stacey, Mary Jane Watson-Parker (both in flashback); AOA Gwen Stacey Villains: the Green Goblin (in flashback); Psi-Ops Gauntlet Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Chriscross Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas, Mark Bernardo Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Spider-Man accosts Nate atop the Brooklyn Bridge, where Gwen died. He tells him not to mess with people's minds: But Nate wipes all memory of himself from everyone. He offers the same to Jam, who refuses. The loft creeps with strange creatures in the wake of Threnody, whom Nate now senses in the underground tunnels. Spider-Man attacks him, to stop this mental violation and to prevent Nate from overloading himself. But Nate power swirls around, and suddenly AOA Gwen is there, with a big gun. Nate apologizes for materializing this memory; just then Gauntlet attacks them. Gwen falls off the bridge; Peter rescues her, this time. Nate can't psychically sense Gauntlet, so he uses the bridge cables against them. They attack him from behind and capture him, but Spider-Man returns. Issue: X-Man 38 Date: May-98 Story: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide? (21 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Roust, Madelyne Pryor II Guest Stars: Peter Parker (Spider-Man) Villains: Psi-Ops Gauntlet including (Cinder, see iss. 44) Fontaine Other Characters: Dr. Marcus Arlington III Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Chriscross, Ariel Olivetti Inks: Mahlstedt, Bobillo, Caesar, Sosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Kiff Scholl Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate uses all his psi-powers, but these Gauntlet soldiers are shielded, and he is choked and drowned in the East River. Spider- Man fares better, fending off the soldiers above the Brooklyn Bridge. He sees Nate captive, and webs his captor. Nate quits feigning defeat and splits open the soldiers' armor, reads one's mind, and learns that they are operatives for Gauntlet, just before they fail-safe zip away. Spider-Man stops Nate from tracking them: he needs help shoring up the bridge and preventing the deaths of motorists, who curse them as muties and freaks. Dr. Arlington does healings in the Third World, using powers absorbed from Nate. Nate apologizes to Spider-Man for reminding him about Gwen. Nowhere to turn, he subconsciously summons Maddie, who gladly returns to him.
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