X-Factor #17 [Direct]
(June 1987)

Marvel, 1986 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-03-17
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Bobbie Chase (assistant editor); Bob Harras (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

X-Factor / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walter Simonson (signed as Simonson (brontosaurus))
Inks
Walter Simonson (signed as Simonson (brontosaurus))
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Factor: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints
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Die, Mutants, Die! (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Factor / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Louise Simonson (credited)
Pencils
Walter Simonson (credited)
Inks
Bob Wiacek (credited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra Scotese)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The world believes that human mutant hunters inhabit the building...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Horsemen of Apocalypse: Famine [Autumn Rolfson] (cameo); Pestilence (cameo); War [Abraham Kieros] (cameo)
X-Factor: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Caliban (joins the team); Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
Angel [Warren Worthington III] (hallucination); Apocalypse [En Sabah Nur]; Ariel; Boom-Boom [Tabitha Smith]; Rusty Collins; Cameron Hodge (villain); Leech; Artie Maddicks; Madelyne Pryor-Summers (hallucination); Rictor [Julio Richter] (guest, introduction); Ship; Skids [Sally Blevins]; Thor [Sigurd Jarlson]; Trish Tilby (guest); The Right (villain, introduction)
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
X-Factor tries to save San Francisco from being shaken apart by Rictor. Hodge is revealed as a traitor.
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Indexer Notes

Continued from Thor (Marvel, 1966 series) #378. Continues in part in Fallen Angels (Marvel, 1987 series) #3.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Changes / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers: Frank Balkin, Blaise H. Bear, Elvis Orten, Lon Levy, Brian Eilert, and Jim Johnson.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    X-Factor
  2. 1. Die, Mutants, Die!
    X-Factor
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    X-Changes
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