Religion and Characters in
Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 (Dec. 1976):
“The Lords of Light and Darkness!”
by Chris Claremont, Bonnie Wilford, Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, Mike Esposito

12 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.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (lead character)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Secret Defenders  Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		9,358
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	X-Men; X-Factor  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; The Twelve (mutants); Summers Rebellion		2,604
Phoenix (Jean Grey)	Episcopalian	X-Men; X-Factor  The Twelve (mutants)		1,905
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	X-Men (founder); Brotherhood of Mutants  The Twelve (mutants); Genoshan Excalibur (founder); Illuminati		4,318
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	First Flight; Weapon Plus  Weapon X; Team X; Alpha Flight; X-Men; Secret Defenders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; New Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; X-Force [Canada]		8,823
Storm (Ororo Munroe)	Goddess worship	X-Men; Morlocks  The Twelve (mutants); X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Lady Liberators; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	X-Men; Excalibur  X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Neyaphem [Germany]		3,788
Colossus (Peter Rasputin)	Communist atheist (former)	X-Men; Acolytes  Excalibur; Weapon X (Exiles) [Russia; USSR]		4,122
Banshee (Sean Cassidy)	Catholic	X-Men; Factor Three  Generation X (teacher); X-Corps (leader) [Ireland]		1,340
Phoenix	cosmic entity	X-Men; Hellfire Club		129
The Nest	Hindu	[Agni, Brahma, Kali, Mara, Ratri, Shiva, Vishnu, Yama Dharma]		1
Agni, Lord of Fire (Dr. Araman Nila)	Hindu	The Nest [India. radiation expert from India]		1

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