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X-Factor (vol. 1) #-1 (July 1997):
“A Summers Tale”
by Howard Mackie, Jeff Matsuda, Art Thibert

X-Factor (vol. 1) #-1

Title: “A Summers Tale”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1997

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Howard Mackie
Art by: Jeff Matsuda, Art Thibert


13 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.
Havok Havok (Alex Summers)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants... 
[Cyclops' brother]
Marvel 592
Mister Sinister Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) villain scientist
CBR Scale: M Social Darwinist
Nasty Boys; The Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Marvel 255
Stan Lee Stan Lee supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[principal Marvel Comics creator] Marvel 258
Vince villain
  [bullied Havok as a kid] Marvel 1
Andrew Blanding supporting character
CBR Scale: S Catholic
[Havok's adoptive father] Marvel 1
Mrs. Blanding supporting character
CBR Scale: S Catholic
[Havok's adoptive mother] Marvel 1
Haley Blanding supporting character
CBR Scale: I Catholic
[Havok's adoptive sister] Marvel 1
Mystique Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist; manifestly non-religious
Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 451
Polaris Polaris (Lorna Dane)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse... 
[studied geophysics in college]
Marvel 464
Forge Forge (Jonathon Silvercloud)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Native American shamanism
(Cheyenne)
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Native American...  Marvel 394
Wild Child Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
(cameo)
villain hero
  Alpha Flight; Gamma Flight...  Marvel 172
Shard Shard (Shard Bishop)
(cameo)
hero
  black; X-Factor...  Marvel 58
Todd Blanding
(mentioned)
supporting character
CBR Scale: I Catholic
[son Blanding family adopted Havok to replace] Marvel 1