X-FACTOR TP (2025)

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by RYAN SOOK & DENNIS CALERO Cover by RYAN SOOK In the fallout from HOUSE OF M and following the surprise film-noir hit MADROX, a new mutant team is forged! X-Factor is an investigative mutant agency that includes Madrox, the Multiple Man; Guido, the Strong Guy; Wolfsbane, the shape-shifter; Siryn, the chorus girl; Rictor, the living earthquake; and Generation X's Monet, the pompous witch. Drawn together in the heart of District X, this rag-tag band of heroes has a lot of answers to find, and fast! Bonus: A key player from House of M will play a major roll in X-Factor! (No, it's not Wolverine - sigh.) Collecting X-FACTOR #1-6. 144 PGS./Rated T+ $14.99 ISBN: 0-7851-1817-9"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by ARIEL OLIVETTI, DENNIS CALERO & ROY ALLAN MARTINEZ Cover by RYAN SOOK Jamie Madrox comes face-to-face with the thing that terrifies him the most: having to make a decision. The divisiveness of Civil War has spread to his own team: Half of them want to cooperate with the government; the other half wants to take a stand against it. It's Jamie's choice that may well decide whether X-Factor stays together or cracks apart. And matters aren't being helped by Quicksilver, who offers Rictor the opportunity to get his powers back -- but at what price? Plus: They've been a thorn in X-Factor's side since the beginning, and now things are coming to a head. X-Factor's newest assignment causes them to again cross paths with their arch rivals, Singularity Investigations. The result is revelations that strike to the very core of who and what Jamie Madrox is. Collecting X-FACTOR #7-12. 136 PGS./Rated T+ $14.99 ISBN: 0-7851-2146-3 X-FACTOR VOL. 1: THE LONGEST NIGHT TPB STILL AVAILABLE! $14.99 (ISBN:0-7851-1817-9)"

"Written by PETER DAVID Pencils & Cover by PABLO RAIMONDI Five words to strike fear into the hearts of spies and evildoers everywhere: Jamie Madrox, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Except that when Madrox decides it's time to start gathering in the stray dupes that are still wandering around, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent doesn't especially want to go...and S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't especially inclined to let him go. Plus: Remember X-FACTOR #87? 'X-Aminations,' the analysis issue? Sure you do. Everybody does. Well, Peter David and new regular artist Pablo Raimondi evoke memories of that classic tale with 'Re-X-Aminations' as the new team unloads their hopes, fears and darkest secrets to an attentive Doc Samson. Collecting X-FACTOR #13-17."

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by PABLO RAIMONDI & KHOI PHAM Cover by PABLO RAIMONDI With mutants an endangered species, can X-Factor stop the Isolationist from making them extinct? X-Factor's battle with the depowered mutants of the terrorist X-Cell reaches a cataclysmic conclusion. Will X-Factor's Rictor remain loyal to his teammates when faced with the chance to regain his own lost powers? And in the aftermath, there's no rest for the wicked, as X-Factor is approached by Josef Huber, the Isolationist, who claims to have a way to make the government that has always feared and persecuted mutants protect them instead. Can he be trusted, or are his true intentions much more sinister? Does he plan for X-Factor to be mutantkind's saviors, or their doom? Collecting X-FACTOR #18-24. 168 PGS./Rated T+ $17.99 "

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by PABLO RAIMONDI & VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by PABLO RAIMONDI Following the events of Messiah CompleX, X-Factor Investigations is in shambles. Jamie is a basket case from his trip to a nightmarish future, Layla's fate is completely in the air, and Wolfsbane has to leave the team to join X-Force - though none of her friends can know about it. What will Wolfsbane tell the X-Factor team? What are they going to do about Layla? How is Jamie coping with his guilt? Get onboard here for X-Factor's brand-new direction! Plus: He's gone from the son of one of the world's greatest villains to one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and then to one of the world's greatest villains in his own right. Now, Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, the man behind the Decimation of the world's mutants, finds himself depowered and trapped in a prison cell, where he must confront all the demons of his past. Collecting X-FACTOR #28-32 and QUICK AND THE DEAD. 144 PGS./Rated T+ $15.99"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by LARRY STROMAN, VALENTINE DE LANDRO & VINCENZO CUCCA Cover by BOO COOK Earth has been infiltrated! The shape-shifting alien Skrulls have seeded the ranks of the world's governments, businesses and even super-hero organizations with sleeper agents bent on a global coup. Now, it's up to X-Factor Investigations and everyone's favorite green bounty hunter She-Hulk to uncover the plot and punch the conspirators repeatedly. When X-Factor receives word that the X-Man Darwin has gone missing, they begin investigating immediately. Little do they suspect that Darwin has fallen in with the dimension-hopping X-Man Longshot, newly returned to the Marvel Universe. Although Longshot's powers alter luck in his favor, it seems trouble follows him endlessly; it will take all of Darwin's unusual abilities to survive this 'friendship.' Collecting X-FACTOR #33-38 and SHE-HULK #31. 168 PGS./Rated T+ $19.99"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by VALENTINE DE LANDRO & MARCO SANTUCCI Cover by DAVID YARDIN As the world's only mutant detective agency, X-Factor Investigations welcomes all cases. No mystery is too weird for Jamie Madrox, a.k.a Multiple Man, and his crack team of strangely gifted compatriots. But while fighting to save the planet and the remnants of the decimated mutant race, the members often neglect the problems in their personal lives. When this negligence leads to a heartbreaking loss, the team splinters. While Siryn throws herself into a difficult new case involving assassination and a seeming time paradox, Madrox has a different agenda. After relinquishing his leadership, Multiple Man begins a journey to find the answers he needs to feel whole again. His quest brings him to the scene of an unlikely crime, where a chance encounter with a crazed gunman and a familiar priest results in a reunion with someone he thought lost forever. What follows is a battle in a strange land, a rebellion whose repercussions may just change the course of mutant history. Is Madrox up to the task at hand? Or has his losing streak just begun? Collecting X-FACTOR #39-45. 168 PGS./Rated T+ $19.99"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by DAVID YARDIN The future of mutantkind has never looked so grim! Jamie Madrox, a.k.a. Multiple Man, and the enigmatic Layla Miller find themselves stranded eighty years in the future. Their mission: to find the cause of temporal anomalies that threaten to trigger the collapse of the legendary Summers Rebellion. If they fail, mutantkind as we know it will be wiped from history! They have only one chance of success. But to seize it, they'll need to get help from the most ruthless villain ever to blight the Marvel Universe: Victor von Doom! Back in the present, the maniacal Cortex is scheming to tear X-Factor apart. And he plans to use a flawlessly engineered killing machine to do it: former X-Factor ally Shatterstar! Little does Cortex know that Shatterstar has some unfinished romantic business with a member of the team. All's fair in love and war, but X-Factor is up against a guy who doesn't mind messing with time itself, if it proves the means to an end. The clock is ticking. Can even the world's greatest mutant detective agency save the past and the future? Collecting X-FACTOR #46-50 and X-FACTOR: LAYLA MILLER. 168 PGS./Rated T+ $19.99"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by BING CANSINO & KARL MOLINE Cover by ESAD RIBIC The Invisible Woman has disappeared! Sue Richards - founding member of the Fantastic Four, Marveldom's first family - has gone missing. Luckily for her, X-Factor Investigations - the world's first (and only) mutant detective agency - is on the case. Following a trail of clues that lead them from the famed Baxter Building to the darkest corners of Dr. Doom's kingdom of Latveria, Jamie Madrox and his crack team soon find themselves hip-deep in the greatest mystery their agency has ever tackled. But what they uncover casts a grim shadow over the Fantastic Four. Can everyone's favorite sleuthing mutants solve the mystery of the vanishing super heroine before the FF falls to pieces? They'll have to make it out of Doom's stronghold alive first! Collecting X-FACTOR #200-203. 128 PGS./Rated T+ $14.99"

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by DAVID YARDIN Mutantkind is barely hanging on. Their numbers have dwindled dangerously low, and the outside world has turned against them. Many believe their race's salvation lies in the return of the young girl called Hope, the first mutant birth in ages. But the X-Men weren't the only ones anxiously awaiting her return. A super-Sentinel from the future, Bastion, is committed to the complete and utter destruction of mutantkind, including Hope. To succeed in his genocidal plan, he has tasked the creator of the original Sentinels with hunting down and destroying X-Factor. With the team spread out across three continents, can Jamie Madrox, Banshee, Longshot and the rest defend themselves from the brutal Mutant Response Division? Collecting X-FACTOR #204-206 and NATION X: X-FACTOR. 112 PGS./Rated T+ "

"Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by SEBASTIAN FIUMARA, EMANUELA LUPACCHINO & VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by DAVID YARDIN Viva Las Vegas! The mutant detective agency X-Factor specializes in superhuman cases. But nothing has prepared them for their newest client: the Norse goddess Hela. Tricked into helping her recapture an escaped slave, the team decides they must travel to Las Vegas and confront the queen of the underworld to free her unwilling jester. But Norse divinity does not take kindly to the challenges of mere mortals - even mutant ones - and the members of X-Factor soon find themselves surrounded by undead Viking warriors in the streets of Sin City. Their only hope: a certain hammer-wielding God of Thunder! Collecting X-FACTOR #207-212. 144 PGS./Rated T+"

"Forgive Me, Father - For I Have Killed! Rahne Sinclair Has A Baby On The Way - But Instead Of A Calm And Peaceful Birth, There's A Hard Labor Coming. Haunted By Her Actions As A Member Of Wolverine's X-Force, Rahne Returned To X-Factor In Search Of Peace, Friendship And Spiritual Convalescence. Instead, She Finds Powerful Forces Determined To Steal Her Unborn Child. Their First Gambit Is To Separate Her From Her Friends; Their Second Is Too Horrible To Contemplate. With Rahne Alone And On The Run, And X-Factor Desperately Trying To Find Her, A Pair Of Mysterious Wolfenkind Emerge From The Shadows - But Do Feral And The Werewolf By Night Want To Help Her, Or Are They Part Of The Pack Seeking To Do Her Harm? Collecting X-Factor (1986) #220-224."

"X-Factor Investigations has been taking on stranger and stranger cases lately - but when an eerie sighting leads the group to the hometown of its leader, Jamie Madrox, they stumble onto an even bigger mystery than they could have imagined. As they work to uncover the deadly secret behind Bloodbath, their own secrets threaten to tear X-Factor apart - and will ultimately claim the life of a team member! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #224.1 and #225-228."

"X-Factor has suffered its greatest casualty yet: Madrox, the man of many multiples who's led the team since its inception, is gone. It wasn't supposed to be this way, but only Layla Miller knows why - and the secret she's keeping goes to the heart of her powers and purpose with X-Factor. With their fearless leader dead, and the schism between Wolverine and Cyclops ripping the mutant world apart, X-Factor's future is uncertain. That's why Wolverine has paid the team a visit, offering a shocking new option for the world's only mutant detective agency. It's two for the price of one as Havok and Polaris return from exile to take charge of X-Factor Investigations! But is Madrox really dead? Even Jamie isn't sure! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #229-232. "

"As Havok and Polaris take the reins of X-Factor Investigations, the Isolationist makes his chilling return! Then, when someone or something begins eviscerating super heroes in Seattle, X-Factor is called in to investigate. But when they encounter the villainous Scattershot, who looks suspiciously like two members of X-Factor Investigations, Shatterstar goes berserk! ('Nuff said!) Plus: Monet calls out Layla, and what starts as a catfight rapidly gets ugly! And a departed member of X-Factor returns! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #233-236."

"Four tales of suspense starring superhumanity's detective agency of choice! Madrox investigates a suicide case that isn't what it initially seems! Banshee is suspected of murder and sets out to clear her name, but ends up clashing with an actual banshee! Strong Guy asks M out on a date. (Yikes!) And Layla Miller races the clock! It's X-FACTOR action as only veteran scribe Peter David can provide! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #237-240."

"The story arc that will change the face of X-Factor forever! As a rejected Strong Guy does the unthinkable, two characters you never thought would come face-to-face are finally reunited. Discovering a long-buried secret from the past, one member of X-Factor will be pushed to the brink of insanity. Devastated by the recent tragedies befalling the team, another makes a terrible sacrifice in hopes of putting things right. And when the smoke clears, X-Factor's roster will be nearly halved. Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #241-245."

"War looms in X-Factor's future! First, get a behind-the-scenes look at how, in a typical day, Pip the Troll holds the entire team together without their knowledge. Then, a newly married X-Factor couple attempts to honeymoon in the happiest place on Earth, but instead must face off with a villain hoping to bring about hell on Earth instead! Who says romance is dead? And when a familiar face hovers between life and death, Monet is the only one who can save them - but it will require reliving the most horrific experience of her life. Finally, X-Factor investigates a series of eerie portents that leads them to a mysterious, previously unknown race of beings called the Warders. Their job? To prepare the world for its end. And it's closer than X-Factor thinks! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #246-249."

"The Hell on Earth War begins as the various Lords of Hell fight for dominance in a vicious, mystical battle triggered by the seven billionth soul born on Earth: Wolfsbane's son, Tier! And only X-Factor can prevent the entire world from going up in flames! But as the team fights for Tier's life and struggles to stop the Hell-Lords from tearing apart the Earth, familiar faces return. But help may come too late, as one Hell-Lord is poised to stand victorious. The few remaining X-Factor members make a last-ditch effort to save the world - but not all will survive the final battle. This is the end of X-Factor as you know it! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #250-256."

"Peter David's epic tale, nearly a decade in the telling, draws to its close! As the members of X-Factor recover from the Hell on Earth War, Wolfsbane makes a life-changing decision, sibling rivalry erupts between Polaris and Quicksilver, and one of X-Factor's longest-held secrets is revealed: the truth about Longshot and Shatterstar! It's time to lock the doors and turn off the lights as Jamie Madrox's detective agency shuts down for good. Bid a fond farewell to Layla Miller, Strong Guy, M, Rictor and the rest. Believe it or not, it's the end of X-Factor! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #257-262."