CATALOG RECORD
X-Factor Annual #3
first appearance of Doctor Stack and Major Purge
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Doctor Stack (Purifiers) — villain, first appearance
- Major Purge (Purifiers) — villain, first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- [August] 1988
- On sale
- April 12, 1988
- In stores
- May 3, 1988
- Pages
- 68
Values
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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.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148602582585
This edition’s page
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.
- Silver Surfer Annual (1988) #1
- X-Men Annual (1970) #12
- Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985) #4
- The New Mutants Annual (1984) #4
- The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) #8
- The Avengers Annual (1967) #17
- X-Factor Annual (1986) #3
- The Punisher Annual (1988) #1
- Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #21
- The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #22
- The West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3
- Silver Surfer Epic Collection (2014) #4
- Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways Omnibus (2024) #nn
Also part of: Saga of the High Evolutionary, Evolutionary War
Creators
Stories
- Unnatural Selection · 36 pages
X-Factor tries to stop the High Evolutionary's men from genetically cleansing the mole people. Apocalypse and the Evolutionary battle and argue philosophy.
- Changes! · 10 pages
Ship tells the young members of X-Factor the origins of their older mentors.
- The High Evolutionary [Chapter One] The Gift · 6 pages
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!
Characters
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)