X-Factor Annual #3

Dates

Cover date

[August] 1988

On sale

May 5, 1988

In stores

May 3, 1988

Pages

68

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct edition

  Direct

  No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

  This edition’s page
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07148602582585

  Source ↗

Story arc: The Evolutionary War

This is part 7 of 13. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Silver Surfer Annual (1988) #1
2. X-Men Annual (1970) #12
3. Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985) #4
4. The New Mutants Annual (1984) #4
5. The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) #8
6. The Avengers Annual (1967) #17
7. X-Factor Annual (1986) #3
8. The Punisher Annual (1988) #1
9. Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #21
10. The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #22
11. The West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3
12. Silver Surfer Epic Collection (2014) #4
13. Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus (2024) #nn

Publisher’s description

Beginning the saga of the Evolutionary Wars. It's a strange alliance when X-Factor travels to the Mole Man's underground kingdom of Subterranea to save the Subterraneans from genetic transfiguration at the hands of the High Evolutionary! Also: Uncover the secret past of the High Evolutionary. Who shaped his beliefs? What was his connection with the father of the original Spider-Woman? You won't believe your eyes when you see the first Genetic Accelerator!

Reprinted in

X-Men: Inferno Prologue (2014), X-Factor Epic Collection (2017), Essential X-Factor (2005), Evolutionary War Omnibus (2011), X-Men: Inferno Prologue Omnibus (2021), X-Factor: The Original X-Men Omnibus (2024)