- Script
- Rob Liefeld (credited) (plot); Fabian Nicieza (credited)
- Pencils
- Rob Liefeld (credited)
- Inks
- Rob Liefeld (credited)
- Colors
- Brad Vancata (credited)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The underground bunker headquarters of the New Mutants, December 8, 3:15 P.M.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mutant Liberation Front: Skids Blevins [Sally Blevins] (villain); Rusty Collins (villain); Forearm [Michael McCain] (villain); Kamikaze (villain); Reaper [Pantu Hurageb] (villain); Strobe [Juliana Worthing] (villain); Stryfe (villain); Sumo (first appearance, villain); Tempo [Heather Tucker] (villain); Wildside [Richard Gill] (villain); Zero (villain)
New Mutants: Boom-Boom [Tabitha Smith]; Cable [Nathan Summers]; Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Domino [Vanessa Carlysle]; Feral (joins); Shatterstar (first full appearance, joins); Warpath [James Proudstar]
X-Men: Wolverine [Logan] (cameo flashback)
X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (cameo flashback); Rogue [Anna Marie] (cameo flashback); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (cameo flashback)
Brute (villain, death); Hump (villain); Masque (villain); Mojo (cameo flashback); Spiral (cameo flashback); Imperial Protectorate (villain, first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Shatterstar shows up in the Danger Room and the New Mutants have to help him defeat Mojo's Soldiers. Feral also arrives at the Mansion and Cable helps get Masque off of her back. Agreeing to try Cable's new proactive stance in the mutant struggle, the New Mutants leave X-Mansion behind and officially become X-Force.
- Reprints
Part 3 of 3. Final issue. Domino, Shatterstar, and Feral join. The New Mutants (now called X-Force) appear next in New Mutants Annual #7, and then in X-Force #1; Pages 27 and 28 of the story are the infamous Liefeld swipe of a two page sequence from Frank Miller's Ronin from DC Comics.
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- Pencils
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- Inks
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- Colors
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- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Cable
Letters from: Bill Anderson, Jess Siegel, Terry Westrum, Vincent Bettes.