A Young Man With No Memory - Hunted By Powerful Spell Weavers - In The Midst Of Nations On The Brink Of War Set in the post-nuclear war future in a country called Prime, a boy wakes up in a town with no memory of who he is. The town has recently been taken over by the army of an opposing country, and he is somehow known to them. He barely manages to escape with his life, and sets out on a perilous journey where he tries to regain his memory and discover what has happened to him. Moncrieff, a senior council member on the governing Periar Council, realises that the boy is in danger. Moncrieff has an unexplained connection to the boy and is trying to reach him before the rest of the Periar Council discover his existence. If the Council learnt of what was going on, it would surely mean death for both Moncrieff and the boy.

Collects X-Factor 33, X-Terminators 1, X-Factor 34, X-Terminators 2, Uncanny X-Men 239, X-Factor 35, X-Factor 36, Uncanny X-Men 240, X-Terminators 3, New Mutants 71, X-Terminators 4, New Mutants 72, Uncanny X-Men 241, X-Factor 37, New Mutants 73, Uncanny X-Men 242, X-Factor 38, Uncanny X-Men 243, X-Factor 39, X-Factor 40 & X-Factor Annual 4.

The Space Ark left its home planet, Urth, two thousand years ago Canopus IV time, arriving here in the Canopus System some five hundred years later. That is all we know for certain; the rest is mere conjecture. Two salient features of the Space Ark's unique social institutions stand out above the myth and fairytale of our ancestors, however. The first is the fabled story of the Mutant-makers, and when one studies the conditions surrounding this phenomenon, the fabled story becomes cold scientific fact. On a giant balanced-terrarium of a ship which was largely automatic, seemingly isolated forever in the vastnesses of interstellar space, our ancestors lacked even a modicum of external challenge. They thus had to create their own artificial stimuli or face an inevitable retreat down the ladder of decadence to barbarism. It appears that for a time they went too far: they created mutants. These in turn gave rise to a rigid caste-system on the Ark, a system which afforded an extreme in internal challenges and responses. The second salient feature of the Space Ark's social institutions was its favoring of the biolo-mental sciences over the chemi-physical sciences. This, again, proves to be an inevitable by-product of the Space Ark's static environment. No physical world existed: physics became a useless dogma, a meaningless jumble of terms which bore no semantic relation to the world-at-large. On the other hand, the Space Ark was a universe of introversion. The biolo-mental sciences leaped ahead of what had developed into a something-less-than-static-civilization. This, as we have seen, gave rise to the Mutant-makers. But on a constructive level, it fostered the growth of a new science of psychology, vastly superior to the old Urth science, and, some suspect, considerably more refined than our own mental sciences. A particular manifestation of this lost science was the ability to project tri-dimensional images of dreams, to record them while the conscious mind slumbered, to play them back later and to interpret them unerringly.... —Andoos-Rob't, A Short History of the Abortive Social Institutions of the Urth-Canopus Space Ark, Introduction...FROM THE BOOKS.

The growing population of Meta-humans/Mutants had become the growing cause of great concern for the U.S government and the "human" American population at large, so the government established a mutant research and educational facility on a small U.S territory, the Caribbean Island of Bain, for the purpose of studying and educating young mutants so that they could become useful and responsible American citizens. Not long later, the facility, staff, mutants and the entire island vanished from the face of the earth, along with several of America's top scientist and military personnel. That was five years ago, but now Bain Island has reappeared and one hundred and fifty years has past on the island and now the native humans need help. A human utopia, built at the expense and suffering of generations of mutant slaves, has been violently overthrown. In its place is a powerful mutant society dominated by ferocious female headed clans backed by a savage male warrior caste...and now the humans bow low! To the American President and people, the mutants and island are of the United States. They must surrender their sovereignty, land and technology. The human slaves must be freed! The mutant queen and her warriors do not agree.

A mutant tortured and barely alive. A woman restrained by a society she no longer trusts. When Khalisa first sets eyes on the barely conscious mutant, Zielle, she isn’t prepared for the anguish within at seeing firsthand what the scientists in the Dome’s facility are doing to the ‘monsters’ who live outside the air-cleansed compound. But then she’s always rebelled against the rules. Always questioned and defied everything she’s been told since she and her brother, Dwight, were captured and saved from outside, where the chemical fallout would have turned them mutant too. What she and her brother don’t know is that they are dormant mutants whose powers are yet to be triggered. They are also the last hope of saving a mutant clan, whose leader, Zielle, volunteers to be captured by the evil humans so that he can find and rescue the mutant siblings. But it’s only Khalisa he can free, and on the run from the humans who’d do anything possible to recapture them, he has to convince Khalisa that he’s on her side…and that the sizzling chemistry between them is just an added bonus.

A telegram sends five people on a vacation they will never forget. Arriving at their destination, they decide to spend the night in a mysterious, old mansion during a raging thunderstorm. Little do they realize that a mysterious stranger is about to enter their lives. He tells them about a strange virus that has overtaken the occupants of the town and top-secret experiments that were conducted away from the prying eyes of the world. For the next four days, the small group tries their best to keep themselves alive. They not only uncover the secret that surrounds the old mansion, but they also discover a plot that is so diabolical that it could see extra-terrestrials destroy the world and everyone living on it. Join the small group as they work against time to expose the truth about the government and military leaders, before the government hides their secrets again forever from the prying eyes of the world.

Collects X-Terminators #1-4, New Mutants (1983) #71-85. From the horror of Limbo to the glory of Asgard! As the fires of Inferno burn, the New Mutants must escape Magik's dark domain - but that leaves the way open for S'ym and his demons to invade Earth! Luckily, X-Factor's former wards, the X-Terminators, are on the scene! Can Rusty, Skids, Boom-Boom, Rictor, Artie, Leech and Wiz Kid help the New Mutants repel an army of demons and save Magik's soul? Then, when Hela's evil spell corrupts Mirage's Valkyrie side, Doctor Strange lends a magical hand! But to cure Mirage completely, the New Mutants must travel to Asgard, home of the mighty Norse gods! The trouble is, Hela is scheming to murder Odin and conquer Asgard! Will a handful of mortal mutants be enough to defeat the Goddess of Death?

Collects X-Terminators #1-4, Uncanny X-Men (1981) #239-243, X-Factor (1986) #35-39 and New Mutants (1983) #71-73. The biggest and best adventures of Marvel’s mighty mutants — these are the X-Men Milestones! Strike the match fan the flames and light the Inferno! Limbo’s demon lords corrupt two of the X-Men’s nearest and dearest — Colossus’ sister, Illyana Rasputin, and Cyclops’ wife Madelyne Pryor — and use them to bring a horde of demons raining down on New York City! But as Illyana battles to regain her soul, Madelyne threatens to cast a spell that will merge Earth and limbo permanently — with the sacrifice being her own innocent son! And when Mister Sinister brings his own agenda into the mix, secrets are revealed that rock Cyclops to the core! The X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants face their most harrowing ordeal ever — with the fate of the world in the balance!

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium, held in São Paulo, Brazil, July 27-August, 1986.