Cover: Paul Smith
X-Factor #45
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writer Louise Simonson · artist Paul Smith · inker Allen Milgrom · colorist Tom Vincent · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Paul Smith
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Trivia · 8 facts
- Story title: 'Judgement War Part 3: Arena!' — the third installment of the multi-part Judgement War arc running through X-Factor #43–50 (1989–1990).
- First appearances of Agrom (a Reject-faction warrior forced into arena combat against Archangel) and Nikoh (a young Reject who manifests fire powers in this issue).
- Archangel is held as the gladiatorial 'property' of Lord Rask and fights Agrom in the Chosen's arena; when electronic 'Goads' ramp up his aggression he wins the match, but refuses to execute his defeated opponent.
- In a dungeon scene after the fight, Archangel confides to Agrom that he has sworn never again to be controlled by anyone — a direct reference to his manipulation by Apocalypse during the Horsemen storyline.
- Nathan Christopher Charles Summers (the infant who will eventually become Cable) appears as a supporting character, tended by Princess Seera while his father Cyclops searches for his scattered teammates.
- Cyclops observes the Celestial Gammenon the Gatherer on the planet's surface alongside Dykon of the Beginagains, establishing the cosmic stakes of the Celestials' ongoing judgment of the planet.
- Creative team: writer Louise Simonson, penciler Paul Smith, inker Al Milgrom, colorist Tom Vincent, letterer Joe Rosen, editor Bob Harras; cover art also by Paul Smith.
- The issue and its surrounding arc were collected in X-Factor Epic Collection Vol. 4: Judgement War (2023, Marvel), the first time the storyline was reprinted in color.
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writer Louise Simonson
artist Paul Smith
inker Allen Milgrom
colorist Tom Vincent
letterer Joe Rosen
cover pencils, inks Paul Smith
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Reprinted in Facteur X #11 (1991), Essential X-Factor #3 (2009), X-Factor Epic Collection #4 (2023), X-Factor: The Original X-Men Omnibus #2 (2025)
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