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Roger Stern,
John Byrne,
Bob Payton,
Louise Simonson,
Walter Simonson,
John Buscema,
Jackson Guice,
Keith Pollard,
Bob Layton,
Marc Silvestri,
Terry Shoemaker,
Sal Buscema,
John Bogdanove,
David Muzzucchelli
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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785118862
ISBN number: 0785118861
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 568
Printing Date: November 30, 2005
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 219975
Studio: Marvel Comics
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The death of Jean Grey re-defined the X-Men, but her resurrection did nothing less! Recovered by the Avengers and revived by the Fantastic Four, Jean's return re-grouped her fellow founders into a supposed mutant-hunting unit that ferreted out some of mutantdom's rising stars - including the devastating debut of the ancient evil everyone identifies as Apocalypse! With Mystique, the Morlocks, and the Master Mold! Featuring tie-ins to the infamous Mutant Massacre! Guest-starring Thor and Power Pack! Collects X-Factor #1-16, Annual #1, Avengers #263, Fantastic Four #286, Thor #373-374.
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This is difficult to review. It starts off very slowly and is not all that interesting. The premise is flawed from the start of the original X-Men reuniting and posing as mutant hunters, while actually trying to help the mutants they hunt down. Issue after issue they bring up the flawed concept, but never resolve it.
Things get interesting when the collection reaches the Mutant Massacre issues. It is action-packed and just as good as I remember those issues when they very first came out.
The art is okay. I've always liked Walt Simonson's art, but the issues he does don't always show up as well in this grey and white format, especially the two issues Dan Green inked.
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The Marvel Essentials are fantastic. For about 11 dollars you get over 500 pages of comics. They're basically big grey and white phones books of classic Marvel. While they're not necessarily collectors items those of us who would rather get an amazing deal and still read the same great stories are more than pleased with these great reprints.
X-Factor is fantastic fun. You get the X-Men disband and Logan starting up a new group called X-Factor. They're disguised as a mutant hunting company who secretly helps the mutants they are hired to nab. You get to see this story from their earlier issues from The Avengers. It's great fun and you should definitely nab this if you love the X-Men.
I can't rave about the Essentials line enough. I wish they would reprint newer comics in this format. I love collecting comics and displaying them but when it comes down to it I read them for the stories. If you're afraid of the grey and white art don't be scared because the artwork looks amazing anyway. For about 11 dollars you really can't find a better deal.
You should also check out all of the Essentials because they're great. If you're more of a DC guy then check out the DC Showcase which is the exact same thing. I recently bought the Jonah Hex and Green Arrow books and I'm obsessed.
MAKE MORE ESSENTIALS AND SHOWCASES!!!
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The covert mutant mutant hunters are back, finally. It was a good idea to team the original X-Men back up in this series, and it was quite well done, inter-relating with the rest of the X-Universe in a time when it was still good, so great to be able to have this stories in a handy edition. Some top notch work.
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This massive volume collects the very first seventeen issues of Marvel Comics' X-Factor (including one annual) from 1986 and 1987. Also included due to crossovers are two Thor issues and one each of Avengers, Fantastic Four and Power Pack. Presumed dead after the Phoenix storyline, Jean Grey reappears from a mysterious space capsule by the JFK airport and Scott Summers leaves his wife and child in Alaska and returns to New York. These two eventually join fellow original X-Men Angel, Beast and Iceman to pose as a highly publicized team of mutant hunters that actually tries to help mutants assimilate into human society. The grey and white newsprint evokes newspaper comic strips instead of traditional comic books. The absence of colour confuses some panels, for example, when Beast loses his blue fur in issue 3. Besides occasional overexposure of some annoying minor characters, the stories are generally still enjoyable 20 years after their original publication. At over 550 pages, this is a tremendous value for Amazon's current price of less than twelve bucks.
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When "Giant Size X-Men" #1 came out in 1975 the good news was that the X-Men were back with their own comic book. However, the subsequent generation of X-Men was made up of Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Banshee, Storm, Sunfire, Colossus, and Thunderbird, with the only left over from the original lineup being the team leader, Cyclops. Well, Professor X is around too. The new lineup would change, relatively quickly, with Sunfire leaving and Thunderbird dying and Phoenix (nee Marvel Girl) joining the lineup, but there was a basic divide between the old team and the new team. The Beast popped up again, but what we did not have was the old band getting together. At least, not until ten years later when Marvel launched "X-Factor," which brought together the original X-Men, without Charles Xavier.
By then things had changed. In "X-Men" #101, Marvel Girl was reborn as Phoneix, became Dark Phoenix, and died in #137. But killing a comic book character is damn near impossible, because they all come back, and Jean Grey proved to be no different. There was Madelyne Pryor, the look alike that Scott Summers fell in love with and who turned out to be a clone created by Mr. Sinister and eventually become the Goblyn Queen. She is now married to Scott and they have a baby. Then we have the increased in anti-mutant hysteria. There was also another wrinkle in that Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, who had ordered that Phoenix must die for having devoured the sun that destroyed the planet of the asparagus people ("X-Men" #135), had decreed Jean Grey could only be brought back into the Marvel universe if it could be shown she was not culpable for the crimes of Dark Phoenix. Kurt Busiek came up with an idea of how this could be done, that was worked into the opening stories of this collection.
Before launching "X-Factor" the storyline was set up in issues of two other Marvel Comics. In "Avengers" #262 powers bursts from the bottom of Jamaica Bay get the attention of the group and they find a strange pod lying on the bottom. The pod is sent to Reed Richards and in "Fantastic Four" #286 it cracks open and out steps Jean Grey. Since the FF are dressed in grey instead of blue she attacks them thinking they are fakes, because she does not know that several years have passed and has no memories from when she flew the shuttle through the solar flair (in "X-Men" #100-101) and when she emerged from the cocoon. Her powers have also been downgraded, because not only is she no longer Phoenix (in point of fact, she never was), but she is also no longer telepathic, although her telekinesis powers are now enhanced. It is only when she touches the holoempathic cyrstal that the Shi'ar gave to her parents after the death of Dark Phoenix that Jean relives what happened between her and the Phoenix power on the shuttle. Now all that is left is to tell the other original X-Men that Jean is alive.
In the premier episode of "X-Factor" it is Warren Worthington III (a.k.a. Angel), who finds out the news about Jean very first and who has to wrestle with the decision to tell Scott. The fact it is Warren also matters because the guy is filthy rich, which allows for setting up the mission statement of X-Factor. The original premise of the X-Men was that Professor Xavier collected teenage mutants and trained them to use their powers to fight super villains, mutant or otherwise. Now that the original X-Men are older and wiser they are taking a different approach, posing as a mutant detection agency. People who suspect a mutant menace call a toll-free number to report the incident. X-Factor then shows up, in the guise of a team of psychologists and scientists, to investigate the subject. But their true purpose is to isolate and protect the people who possess the X-Factor Mutation in their genetic make-up. Meanwhile, all of the interpersonal dynamics get worked out, with the Scott-Jean relationship being, as always, the key one.
The premise is fairly interesting, but the idea of wanting to find new mutants, and therefore new villains, runs a bit thin. It is hard to look at the Alliance of Evil (#5) and not see a lesser version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, but I did like when Freedom Force showed up to fight X-Factor for the young mutants Rusty and Skids (#8)., and it felt good when Master Mold (#13-14) showed up as a serious blast from the past. Volume 1 of the "Essential X-Factor" has the very first sixteen issues of the comic book, along with the very first annual, along with the aforementioned prologue issues and crossovers with "Thor" #373-74 and "Power Pack" #27. Bob Layton writes the very first five issues and the annual of "X-Factor," with Louise Simonson scripting the rest. The pencilers on the comic book were Jackson Guice (#1-3, 5-7), Keith Pollard (#4), Marc Silvestri (#8, #12), Terry Shoemaker (#9), Walter Simonson (#10-11, 13-15), and David Mazzucchelli (#16). I like the irony that on the X-Factor/Thor ... Read More
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