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Marvel Holiday Special ‘96 (Dec. 1996):
“Humbug!”
by Tom DeFalco, Josh Hood, Andrew Pepoy

Marvel Holiday Special '96

Title: “Humbug!”

Feature: X-Men

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1996

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Tom DeFalco
Art by: Josh Hood, Andrew Pepoy


8 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.
Wolverine Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: S raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker
Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  Marvel 10,615
Cyclops Cyclops (Scott Summers) hero
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I Protestant; mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  Marvel 8,371
Phoenix Jean Grey hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Metro College; The Twelve...  Marvel 1,905
Iceman Iceman (Bobby Drake) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 1,752
Storm Storm (Ororo Munroe) hero
CBR Scale: M Goddess worship
black; Lady Liberators...  Marvel 5,068
Cable Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers) hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Askani (leader)
Cable's Underground (leader); Clan Chosen...  Marvel 666
Bishop Bishop (Lucas Bishop) villain hero
CBR Scale: S X-Men veneration (lapsed)
black; NYPD...  Marvel 548
X-Men X-Men hero group
  [1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)] Marvel 9,958

Marvel Holiday Special '96 is also known as: Marvel Holiday Special '96. The indicia title of this issue identifies it as Marvel Holiday Special '96.

In this story, the X-Men discuss the Christmas season. Wolverine is somewhat disgusted over what he regards as the falseness of the season these days.