Lead-In

Bursting onto the scene in 1992 courtesy of creators Chris Cooper and Jae Lee, Lead-In is a Copper/Modern Age Marvel creation with roots in the wild, maximalist storytelling that defined that era. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare find — the kind of character that serious collectors love to track down — surfacing in the pages of The Uncanny X-Men Annual and X-Factor Annual alongside heavy hitters like Scott Summers, Logan, Lucas Bishop, and the dimension-hopping menace Mojo. The fact that Lead-In's presence echoes across thirty years of publishing history, right up to 2022's X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus, gives this obscure figure a quiet staying power that rewards the deep-diving fan.