X-Factor
#28
[Direct]
(May 1988)
Marvel,
1986 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-01-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Bobbie Chase (assistant editor); Bob Harras (credited) (editor); Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
X-Factor / cover / 1 page
- 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]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
Ship - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in X-Marvel (Play Press, 1990 series) #34 (Gennaio 1993) -
in Essential X-Factor (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([January] 2007) [black and white] - in X-Men: Inferno Prologue (Marvel, 2014 series) (2014)
- in X-Factor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #3 - Angel of Death (2021)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #28 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/31/w200/31333.jpg?3329066202649631447)
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Countdown!
X-Factor / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Louise Simonson (credited); Walter Simonson (credited) (co-plot)
- 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
- Days ago, a monstrous sky-ship, captained by a being called Apocalypse,
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Factor: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]
Apocalypse [En Sabah Nur]; Boom-Boom [Tabitha Smith]; Caliban; Rusty Collins; Death [Warren Worthington III]; Infectia [Josephine] (first appearance); Leech; Artie Maddicks; Rictor [Julio Richter]; Ship; Skids [Sally Blevins]; Candy Southern (picture); Gilroy; Joe - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- X-Factor fights and frees Apocalypse's sentient ship from its former master's control.
- Reprints
-
in Facteur X (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #1 ([septembre] 1989) - in X-Marvel (Play Press, 1990 series) #34 (Gennaio 1993)
- in Essential X-Factor (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 ([January] 2007) [black and white]
- in X-Men: Inferno Prologue (Marvel, 2014 series) (2014)
- in X-Factor Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #3 - Angel of Death (2021)
-
[no title indexed]
X-Changes / letters page / 0.7 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Martin F. Cripps, Dave Depew, Jason Brashears, and Jeff Mitchell.
Statement of Ownership
statement of ownership / 0.3 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 568,382. Single issue nearest to filing date: 554,164.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
X-Factor -
1.
Countdown!
X-Factor -
2.
[no title indexed]
X-Changes -
3.
Statement of Ownership
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Daniel Nauschuetz
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
- Eric Rom
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
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