WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Blind Faith (Father Alexi Garnoff, Marvel) — first appearance
- Doppelganger (Marvel, Wolfgang Heinrich) — first appearance, villain
- Concussion (Mikhail) — first appearance
- Iron Curtain (Simas Androvich) — first appearance
- Mentac — first appearance
- Siberian Tiger (Illich Lavrov) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- October 1986
- On sale
- July 1, 1986
- In stores
- July 1, 1986
- Pages
- 52
Values
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #1 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.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860258265
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Creators
Stories
- Grand Design · 40 pages
X-Factor travels to Russia to give a talk on their mutant-hunting techniques. While there they covertly stop Doppelganger, an evil mutant who has been experimenting on other mutants for the Russian government.
Publisher’s description
The members of X-Factor must track down and defeat an enemy within their ranks. "Grand Design" is the title of the gripping story in which one of Marvel's hottest new super-teams leaps from the pages of its own regular monthly title into an annual on its own.
Characters
Reprinted in
Essential X-Factor (2005), X-Factor Epic Collection (2017), X-Factor: The Original X-Men Omnibus (2024)