Pestilence

Pestilence is one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, a servant transformed and empowered by the mutant villain Apocalypse to serve as an agent of disease and destruction against the original X-Factor team.

Emerging from the fertile creative soil of Louise and Walter Simonson's landmark X-Factor run in 1987, Pestilence is a Copper Age Marvel figure whose very name signals dread and consequence. With two key-issue appearances to their name, this is a character collectors take seriously, and a presence woven into some of Marvel's most celebrated mutant storytelling. Pestilence's world is populated by heavyweights — Cyclops, Iceman, Hank McCoy, and the broader X-Factor roster share these pages — placing them squarely within one of the most electric corners of the Marvel Universe. Spanning appearances across X-Factor, Power Pack, and X-Man through the turn of the millennium, Pestilence is a compact but resonant piece of Copper Age history well worth tracking down.