X-Factor (vol. 1) #1 (Feb. 1986):
“Third Genesis”
by Bob Layton, Jackson Guice, Joe Rubinstein

X-Factor (vol. 1) #1

Title: “Third Genesis”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1986

Publisher:
Written by: Bob Layton
Art by: Jackson Guice, Bob Layton, Joe Rubinstein

31 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Nathan Christopher Summers	Askani (leader)	Cable's Underground (leader); Clan Chosen...  Six Pack; The New Mutants (leader); The Twelve; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		666
Firefist (Rusty Collins)	mutant supremacist; Acolyte (Magneto worship)	Mutant Liberation Front; The Acolytes...  The New Mutants; U.S. Navy; X-Terminators		89
Cameron Hodge	anti-mutant	The Right (leader); X-Factor (staff)		71
Candy Southern		Archer College; The Defenders (leader)		66
Madelyne Pryor		Berzerkers; The Hellfire Club		173
Phoenix	cosmic entity	The Hellfire Club; X-Men		129
Emma la Porte	Protestant Christian missionary	[1st app: X-Factor (vol. 1) #1 (Feb. 1986)]		2
Chief Jack Fisher		U.S. Navy [Rusty Collins' superior officer in Navy]		1
X-Factor		[1st app: X-Factor (vol. 1) #1 (Feb. 1986)]		115
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (cameo)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (cameo)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  First Flight; Secret Defenders; Team X; The Avengers; The Canadian Army; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		10,615
Storm (Ororo Munroe) (cameo)	Goddess worship	black; Lady Liberators...  Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; The Twelve; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (cameo)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (cameo)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (cameo)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne) (cameo)	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Ultimates		1,339
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) (cameo)	Christian (medieval)	Excalibur; Heroes for Hire...  The Avengers		430
Hercules (cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Heroes for Hire; Olympian...  Renegades; The Avengers; The Champions		1,029
Hellfire Club soldiers (cameo)		The Hellfire Club		97
Elmo (cameo)	prob. indeterminate	[gave Chief Fisher idea to send X-Factor after Rusty Collins]		1
Jack (cameo)		U.S. Navy [guarded Rusty Collins]		1
Irv (cameo)	prob. indeterminate	[Iceman's former co-worker]		1
Eliot (cameo)	prob. indeterminate	[Iceman's former co-worker]		1
Dean Hauser (cameo)	prob. indeterminate	[informed Hank McCoy they rejected his job application]		1

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