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House Ads 5- Introducing: X-Factor!

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Ah, a tease of one of my all-time favorite Marvel series: X-Factor!

The second spin-off of X-Men (joining New Mutants and pre-dating the Wolverine ongoing series by about 3 years), X-Factor featured the original X-Men Cyclops, Angel, Iceman and Beast as they were joined by the recently resurrected Jean Grey!

The tease below is great; you have no idea what X-Factor is yet, but it directs you to Avengers 263, in which the Avengers find a cocoon-like object at the bottom of Hudon Bay, where the X-Men crashed their ship the night Jean became the Phoenix for the first time (see Uncanny X-Men 101!). They deliver it to Reed Richards for examination, and that takes us to Fantastic Four 286, in which the cocoon is opened and Jean Grey is revealed, alive and well!!

I love how the teaser is a manilla folder that has a copy of X-Factor 1 in it. You can just make out the end of the R at the end of the logo, even if the color is changed on the final cover, and you can see the flames (full cover below for reference). It’s obvious the cover changed from the teaser to the final product, but still, pretty cool.

As a basic teaser to start to get some interest in an idea, this works really well for me, although I will admit that feeling might be a little bit influenced by the fact that I love X-Factor so much.

The full X-Factor issue 1 cover:

Top 10 X-Men Teams

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Mavel’s mighty mutants have had quite a number of members under the banner of ‘the X-Men’. Not all have been called X-Men, specifically, but they are all allied under Charles Xavier’s dream, or at least some derivative of it. Generation X, Excalibur, X-Force, X-Factor, the New Mutants or the X-Men themselves, they’re all pretty much one huge family. One huge, huge, super dysfunctional family. Each team has had many iterations over the years, and everyone has their favorites, but today we are going to take a look at our votes for our 10 favorite rosters!

Honorable mentions to the government sponsored X-Factor, X-Statix, the original New Mutants, the New X-Men (both the Grant Morrison penned main X-Men and the teenagers around the time of House of M), Wolverine & The X-Men and the post-Dark Phoenix Saga rosters.

Note: for the purposes of this list we are only counting teams from the 616 universe, or the ‘main’ Marvel Universe. So, no Age of Apocalypse teams or Age of X teams or Days of Future Past in this one!

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Top 100 Heroes: 40-31

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The age old questions of comic fans: Batman or Superman? Spider-Man or Wolverine? The debates about the best heroes are endless. We tried to make a top 10 list, but that was just too hard. So we tried a top 25, but that quickly became a top 50… you get the idea. So we were able to ‘narrow’ it down to an even 100. Odds are you will vehemently disagree with who did or did not make the list, or just the order that we placed them. But, hey, it’s our list.

(Honorable mentions to Beta Ray Bill, USAgent, Martian Manhunter, Kid Flash, Hercules, The Frenchman and the Female (the Boys), Abe Sapien, Spider-Man 2099, Static Shock, Nite Owl, Guy Gardner, Booster Gold, Spawn, Atom Eve, Mary Marvel, and a hell of a lot more. So many more we could- and may- do another whole 100 list!)

We will release these in installments of 10 so that you don’t have the longest list ever to read through. Agree with the placement or who made the list? Disagree with the burning power of a thousand suns? Let us know! Enjoy!

(Click here for Part One!)

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Top 25 X-Men

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The X-Men have had a lot of members over the years. A LOT. Especially when you consider all of the spin-off teams, like the New Mutants, X-Factor, X-Force, and Excalibur. There have to be around 100, maybe more. But if you aren’t overly versed in X-Men history, how are you to know your Josephs from your Rogues? Your Skins from your Storms? Well, I’ll help you out a bit and give you the 25 best members of the X-Men and their ancillary teams.

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