Essential X-Factor #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume collects the earliest adventures of the original X-Factor team, reprinting X-Factor #1-16 and Annual #1 in Marvel's black-and-white Essentials format. It follows the original five X-Men—Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, and Angel—as they reunite under the guise of mutant-hunters to secretly protect their kind, leading to confrontations with villains like Apocalypse and the return of the original X-Men's classic foes.
In "What Lurks Below?", the original X-Men reunite when Jean Grey’s return from the brink of death stirs long-buried secrets and the Phoenix’s lingering echo. With Jean recounting her ordeal, the team forges X-Factor—not as hunters, but as protectors, secretly rescuing vulnerable mutants like Navy man Rusty Collins, whose sudden flame powers mark him as both danger and hope. Written by Bob Layton and illustrated by Jackson Guice, with inks by Layton, Guice, and Joe Rubinstein, and a striking cover by Walter Simonson and Joe Rubinstein, this 2005 launch blends emotional reunion with a new mission, all set against the backdrop of a world still wary of mutants.
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The original X-Men find out that Jean Grey is still alive and gather for a reunion. Jean explains her near-death experience and the Phoenix phenomenon. The team decides to form X-Factor, a group of mutant hunters whose real purpose is to rescue and help new mutants. Navy man Rusty Collins manifests destructive flame powers and X-Factor brings him in.
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