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Essential X-Factor, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
by: 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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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785118862
ISBN: 0785118861
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 568
Publication Date: November 30, 2005
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Sales Rank: 504440
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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- Up and down...
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 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 black and white format, especially the two issues Dan Green inked.

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- Great Value, Great Read.
The Marvel Essentials are fantastic. For about 11 dollars you get over 500 pages of comics. They're basically big black 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. ... Read More

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- Graphic SF Reader
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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- Huge collection of mid-1980s Marvel Comics
This massive volume collects the 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 black and white newsprint evokes newspaper comic strips instead of traditional comic books. The absence of color 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 ... Read More

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