X-Factor Vol 1 69

Part of the "Muir Island Saga" event X-Factor Vol 1 #69 Published August, 1991 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Whilce Portacio "Clash Reunion (Muir Island Saga, Pt. 3)" Writer Fabian Nicieza Penciler Whilce Portacio Inker Task Force X Colourist Dana Moreshead Letterer Mike Heisler Editor Bob Harras Previous Issue Next Issue (title) X-Factor #68 (story) Uncanny X-Men #279 (title) X-Factor #70 (story) Uncanny X-Men #280

Appearing in "Clash Reunion (Muir Island Saga, Pt. 3)"

Featured Characters:

• X-Factor
  • Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)
  •  Beast (Hank McCoy) 
  • Cyclops (Scott Summers)
  • Iceman (Robert Drake)
  • Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Supporting Characters:

• Mystique (posing as Valerie Cooper) - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
• Colonel Vazhin
• The X-Men
  • Professor X
  • Colossus
  • Forge
  • Rogue
  • Wolverine (Logan)
  • Psylocke - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Gambit - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Jubilee - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Banshee - (freed from possession)
• The Muir Island X-Men - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Moira MacTaggert - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Siryn (Theresa) - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Multiple Man (Madrox) - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Legion (David) - (Host for Shadow King)
  • Polaris (Lorna) - Shadow King (Possessed by Shadow King)

Antagonists:

• The Shadow King
• Jacob Reisz - (Host for Shadow King), (Death)

Other Characters:

• Unnamed angry mob members
• Elvis Presley (Mentioned)
• Nathan Summers (Mentioned)
• Sun Tzu (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants
• Abstract Entities
• Gorillas (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Washington, D.C.
• Muir Island
• North Sea
• Astral Plane

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor
• X-Uniforms
• Adamantium (On Logan's claws)
• Electromagnetic scrambling gun
• Synaptic neutralizer

Vehicles:

• SHIELD submarine
  
  

Synopsis for "Clash Reunion (Muir Island Saga, Pt. 3)"

On Muir Island the Shadow King has taken over the minds of the most X-Men. Forge was able to design a device that frees him from the mental hold, and he is able to use it on Rogue, Wolverine and Banshee too. Sean knows the extent of the Shadow King’s plan. He psionically causes world wide waves of hatred and prejudice, that will bundle in the form of Lorna Dane. Being a catalyst for negative emotions, she has been made his nexus between the physical and the astral plane, and he is getting stronger by the minute. In Washington, Val Cooper and Xavier call in X-Factor for a rescue mission.

They secretly approach Muir in a submarine, but aboard is also FBI agent Reisz, the Shadow King’s human host. When X-Factor invades the island, they are held in check by Legion, under the King’s control. On the submarine, Reisz starts to strangle Xavier, who pleads Val Cooper to help, yet she is under the King’s control too – or so he thought. She suddenly shape-shifts, revealing to be the believed killed Mystique and shoots Reisz trapping the Shadow King on the astral plane. X-Factor and X-Men wonder how to free Lorna Dane from the nexus gate to prevent the Shadow King from acquiring a new host. Caught in the dilemma that separating Lorna from the device might kill her, they hesitate too long and the Shadow King takes over Legion as his next host.

Notes

• Part 3 of 4 of the Muir Island Saga crossover event.

See Also

• Write your own review of this comic!
• Discuss X-Factor Vol 1 69 on the forums
• 1 Images from X-Factor Vol 1 69
  

Recommended Reading

• Uncanny X-Men #279 - Events leading to the current story
• X-Factor #68 - Nathan Summers was sent to future timeline

Links and References

• X-Factor at Wikipedia
• X-Factor at Marvel Subscriptions
• X-Factor series index at Comicbookdb.com
• X-Factor series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
• X-Factor series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 10/22/2010

Footnotes