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X-51#1
Cover: Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti

X-51 #1

Sep 1999 · Marvel · 1.99 USD; 2.99 CAD
“The Persistance of Memory”

Special Agent Jack Kubrick is given the assignment of finding out what happened to Machine Man after his last public appearance. This includes interviews with people who knew him. He also finds that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is also looking for Machine Man, for their own reasons. After finding Machine Man's head, Jack is fatally shot by Mystique. Still alive, Jack puts the robotic head where his head had been, only to discover that he is Machine Man.

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writer Mike Higgins · writer Karl Bollers · artist Joe Bennett · inker Slick · colorist Mark McNabb · letterer Benchmark · cover Joe QuesadaJimmy Palmiotti

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inker Slick
colorist Mark McNabb
letterer Benchmark
cover pencils Joe Quesada
cover inks Jimmy Palmiotti

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Special Agent Jack Kubrick is given the assignment of finding out what happened to Machine Man after his last public appearance. This includes interviews with people who knew him. He also finds that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is also looking for Machine Man, for their own reasons. After finding Machine Man's head, Jack is fatally shot by Mystique. Still alive, Jack puts the robotic head where his head had been, only to discover that he is Machine Man.

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