comicbooks.com Join Free
Home › Paige Guthrie
Paige Guthrie
Paige GuthriePaige GuthriePaige Guthrie

Paige Guthrie

129 appearances · Copper/Modern Age · 1986–2025 · 6 key issues
Who is Paige Guthrie?

Paige Guthrie is a mutant from the Guthrie family of Kentucky who can tear away her outer skin to reveal a new body composed of any material she concentrates on — metal, stone, diamond, and more. She honed this power as a member of Generation X, determined to follow her older brother Sam into Xavier's world of mutant heroes.

Paige Guthrie burst onto the scene in The New Mutants #42 in 1986, a Chris Claremont creation who would grow from a supporting presence into a genuine Marvel mainstay across nearly four decades of comics. A member of the X-Men, Alpha Flight, X-Corps, and even the Sentinels, she's one of the more fascinatingly versatile figures in the mutant corner of the Marvel Universe, racking up 115 catalog appearances and six key issues that collectors keep a close eye on. Her most sustained spotlight comes through Generation X, The Uncanny X-Men, and Wolverine & the X-Men, where she shares the page with heavy-hitters like Wolverine, Jubilee, and Warren Worthington III — elite company by any measure. If you love characters who've been tested, reshaped, and proven their staying power through the Copper Age all the way into the modern era, Paige Guthrie is absolutely worth your time.

⚠ Identity — our best guess (help us confirm)

Real name. Paige Elisabeth Guthrie

Powers. Mutant: can shed her outer skin (husk) to transform her body into a new composition beneath — stone, metal, glass, diamond, organic steel, etc. — gaining the properties of that material; can also use the ability to shapeshift/impersonate.

Not sure this is right? Ask our expert below — they'll set it straight or flag it for review.

Teams & affiliations
X-MenGeneration X
★ First appearance
The New Mutants #42
Aug 1986

Top series

Covers through the years — 1986–2023

The New Mutants #42 1986
The New Mutants #42
X-Men #36 1994
X-Men #36
Best of Marvel #1995 1995
Best of Marvel #1995
Generation X #38 1998
Generation X #38
Spider-Woman #15 2000
Spider-Woman #15
New X-Men #140 2003
New X-Men #140
X-Men: Divided We Stand #[nn] 2008
X-Men: Divided We Stand #[nn]
Secret Invasion: X-Men #[nn] 2009
Secret Invasion: X-Men #[nn]
Wolverine & the X-Men #18 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #18
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion #[nn] 2014
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion #[nn]
X-Men: Blue #17 2018
X-Men: Blue #17
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman #2 2020
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman #2
Legion of X #8 2023
Legion of X #8

Appearances

The New Mutants (1983)
#42
Generation X Ashcan Edition (1994)
X-Men Ashcan (1994)
X-Men: Rarities (1995)
Wolverine (1988)
Marvel Swimsuit Special (1992)
#4
Best of Marvel (1994)
Marvel Vision (1996)
Generation X '96 (1996)
Gen 13 / Generation X (1997)
Generation X '97 (1997)
New Mutants: Truth or Death (1997)
#1
X-Men Unlimited (1993)
#17
Generation X / Gen 13 (1997)
Crossover Serie (1997)
#6
Conan (1997)
#5
Marvel Crossover (1997)
#8
X-Men Universe (1999)
#1
Generation X 1999 (1999)
New Warriors (1999)
#5
Spider-Woman (1999)
#15
Uncanny X-Men (2003)
#1
New X-Men (2001)
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The End of History (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men 2005 (2005)
Excalibur (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 (2005)
X-Men: Divided We Stand (2008)
Secret Invasion: X-Men (2009)
X-Men: Legacy (2008)
Excalibur Visionaries: Warren Ellis (2010)
#1
X-Necrosha (2010)
Origins of Marvel Comics: X-Men (2010)
#1
Generation X Classic (2010)
New Mutants (2009)
New X-Men by Grant Morrison (2011)
#6
Wolverine & the X-Men (2011)
Astonishing X-Men (2004)
#10
Wolverine & the X-Men by Jason Aaron (2012)
#7
X-Men: The Road to Onslaught (2014)
#1
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion (2014)
X-Men '92 (2015)
#4
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - Dawn (2016)
X-Men: Blue (2017)
Spider-Man / Deadpool (2016)
#30
Fallen Angels (2020)
Dawn of X (2019)
#5
Fallen Angels by Bryan Hill (2020)
#1
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman (2020)
#2
New Mutants Omnibus (2020)
#2
Legion of X (2022)
#8
Legion of X by Si Spurrier (2022)
#2
X-Men: Reign of X by Jonathan Hickman (2024)
#1
Generation X Epic Collection (2021)
#5
De X-Mannen (1983)