*Marvel: Following the discovery of the original Jean Grey floating in an abandoned mattress (sorry, ‘cocoon’) in the Hudson river, Marvel were urged to ‘get the band back together’, now that all of the original X-Men were back in play, and they did – but the way they did it was a little odd. Writer Bob Layton and artist Jackson ‘Butch’ Guice presented the founding X-Men as a Ghostbusters-style mutant-hunting team dedicated to ostensibly tracking down and incarcerating mutants while actually rescuing and training them, a self-hating and contradictory premise which disturbed and annoyed readers (‘Next ish – Storm, Black Panther and Luke Cage join the Klan!’). Fortunately, within a few issues Louise and Walter Simonson took over, and things got a lot more sensible. We have a new selection of the X-Factor series from #1 to #25, including #5 and #6, with the first cameo and full appearances of Apocalypse.
PICTURED: X-FACTOR
#5 VF p £30
#6 VF p £40