X-Force
#5
[Direct]
(December 1991)
Marvel,
1991 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.65 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Editing
- Suzanne Gaffney (credited) (assistant editor); Bob Harras (credited) (editor); Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
The Brotherhood--Reborn!
X-Force / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Blob [Frederick Dukes]; Phantazia; Pyro [St. John Allerdyce]; Sauron; Toad [Mortimer Toynbee]]
- Reprints
-
in X-Force (Semic S.A., 1992 series) #4 (mars 1993) -
in X-Force: Under the Gun (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011), (2011) - in X-Force Omnibus (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 (2013)
- in Deadpool: Beginnings Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017) [1/4 page size]
- in X-Force Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 - Under the Gun (2017)
-
in The All Killer No Filler Deadpool Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2018 series) #1 - Deadpool Beginnings (2018) - in Deadpool Epic Collection (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 - The Circle Chase (2021) [1/4 page size]
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Under the Magnifying Glass
X-Force / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Rob Liefeld (credited) (plot); Fabian Nicieza (credited)
- Pencils
- Rob Liefeld (credited) (sourced) (layouts); Marat Mychaels (sourced) (pencils, first half of book); Brian Murray (sourced) (pencils, second half of book)
- Inks
- Rob Liefeld (credited); Marat Mychaels (sourced)
- Colors
- Brian Murray (credited as Murray); Renee Witterstaetter (credited as Witterstaetter)
- Letters
- Chris Eliopoulos (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 11:00 P.M. Somewhere in Europe...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Blob [Frederick Dukes]; Sauron [Karl Lykos]; Toad [Mortimer Toynbee]]; X-Force [Boom-Boom [Tabitha Smith]; Cable [Nathan Summers]; Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Domino [Vanessa Carlysle]; Feral; Shatterstar; Siryn [Theresa Cassidy] (joins X-Force); Warpath [James Proudstar]]; Tanya Anderssen (death); G. W. Bridge; Black Tom Cassidy (villain); Valerie Cooper; Deadpool [Wade Wilson] (villain); Nick Fury; Gideon; Henry Gyrich; Juggernaut [Cain Marko] (villain); Tolliver (villain, first appearance); Weapon X [Garrison Kane] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Toad captures Karl Lykos and forces him to steal life force from his girlfriend to transform into Sauron and join the new Brotherhood. Siryn joins X-Force.
- Reprints
- in X-Force (Semic S.A., 1992 series) #4 (mars 1993)
- in X-Force: Under the Gun (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in X-Force Omnibus (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 (2013)
- in X-Force Epic Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 - Under the Gun (2017)
- in The All Killer No Filler Deadpool Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2018 series) #1 - Deadpool Beginnings (2018)
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Indexer Notes
Additional inker credit given in X-Force #7. Additional pencil credit confirmation from Marat Mychaels from the Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #136 website on January 3, 2008 (http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/03/comic-book-urban-legen…)
CableGrams
CableGrams / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Elijah Moffett, Dan Lipkowitz, Dominick Glespen, Shawn Jemick, Richard Ross.
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