X-Factor #82

Name: X-Factor #82
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Sep 1992 · Marvel · 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD; 0.85 CAD

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“Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay”

★ 1st appearance — Lukas★ 1st appearance — Pirouette

About this Issue

X-Factor #82 is a key chapter in Peter David's celebrated government-team run, introducing the X-Patriots — a group of Genoshan mutant refugees seeking asylum in the United States — as a recurring cast that would anchor the book's next major story arc. It also marks the first appearances of two X-Patriots members, Lukas and Pirouette (Jo Beth), making it a debut issue for minor but catalogued characters. The issue sits at the intersection of David's hallmark blend of political satire and superhero action: a refugee crisis at the docks dramatizes anti-mutant prejudice through a real-world immigration lens while simultaneously serving as a showcase clash between Peter David's X-Factor lineup and Toad's scrappy, self-led Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. As part of the larger Genosha thread that would eventually loop into the Legacy Virus storyline, this issue seeds consequential narrative ground for the remainder of David's run.

writer Peter David · artist Rurik Tyler · inker Al Milgrom · colorist Glynis Oliver · letterer Richard Starkings · cover Joe Quesada, Al Milgrom

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History

By mid-1992, Peter David had already reshaped X-Factor from a team of original X-Men into a government-sanctioned mutant response unit, with Havok as field leader and Val Cooper as federal liaison — a concept he built from X-Factor #71 onward after Marvel retooled the franchise following Jim Lee's X-Men relaunch. Issue #82, titled 'Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay' (a title the Marvel Database notes is an homage to the 1967 Otis Redding song), fell during a stretch of rotating pencillers between the end of Larry Stroman's tenure and the arrival of Jae Lee; Rurik Tyler handled interior art for this single issue while Joe Quesada — who would go on to pencil the book's later issues before eventually becoming Marvel's editor-in-chief — supplied a stronger cover. Editor Kelly Corvese and group editor Bob Harras oversaw production under editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearances of Lukas and Pirouette (Jo Beth), two members of the Genoshan mutant refugee group dubbed the X-Patriots, both indexed in the Marvel Database and confirmed by the Grand Comics Database.
Written by Peter David, with interior pencils by Rurik Tyler, inks by Al Milgrom, colors by Glynis Oliver, and letters by Richard Starkings; cover pencilled by Joe Quesada and inked by Al Milgrom.
Story title is 'Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay,' an homage to the classic 1967 Otis Redding song.
Features the full Peter David-era X-Factor government team: Havok, Polaris, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy, Quicksilver, and Val Cooper versus Toad's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Blob, Pyro, Phantazia, and Sauron).
Toad's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants — formed in X-Force #5–6 — appears here in one of its early outings against a second X-team, attempting to recruit the Genoshan X-Patriot refugees to their cause.
Phantazia (Eileen Harsaw), who had first appeared in X-Force #6, plays a significant in-issue role: she shuts down Quicksilver's speed until Polaris ultimately defeats her.
The X-Patriots' failed asylum bid sets in motion a multi-issue story arc that carries through the X-Cutioner's Song crossover and culminates in X-Factor's trip to Genosha — where the Legacy Virus subplot begins.
Reprinted in X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 3 (2007), X-Factor Epic Collection Vol. 7: All-New, All-Different X-Factor (2018), and the X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 1 (2021).