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 Colorist 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

Say goodbye, children of the atom... your dream is dead... and finally, so are you!!!

-- Shadow King

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

Featured Characters:

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

Supporting Characters:

• Mystique (Raven Darkholme) (Impersonates Valerie Cooper) (Possessed by Shadow King)
• Colonel Vazhin
• X-Men
  • Professor X (Charles Xavier)
  • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)
  • Forge
  • Rogue
  • Wolverine (Logan)
  • Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Jubilee (Jubes Lee) (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Banshee (Sean Cassidy) - (freed from possession)
• Muir Island X-Men
  • Moira MacTaggert (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Siryn (Theresa Cassidy) (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Multiple Man (James Madrox) (Possessed by Shadow King)
  • Legion (David Haller) (Host for Shadow King)
  • Polaris (Lorna Dane) (Possessed by Shadow King)

Antagonists:

• 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:

• Earth
  • United States
    • Washington, D.C.
  • United Kingdom
    • Scotland
      • Muir Island
        • Arena (Destruction)
  • Atlantic Ocean
    • North Sea
• Astral Plane

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor
• X-Uniforms
• Adamantium (On Wolverine'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 worldwide 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

• 1 Image(s) from X-Factor Vol 1 69
• 3 Reprints of 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

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