Released January 1983
Marvel Graphic Novel #9
Key Issue
Synopsis
'The Futurians' From the future of Earth, 2 factions wage war: the Inheritors & the scientific Futurians. The Inhertitors cause the sun to turn into a red giant, then escape the end of the world by traveling in time. To stop the Inheritors by manipulating the past, Futurians send genetic time bombs backwards in time, seeding humans with superhuman potential. Callistrax sends his mind to the past, taking over a transient in 1962. 20 years later, Vanderveckan the man that the Callistrax possessed reaps the rewards of that genetic seeding when he creates his line of defense against the Inheritors: The Futurians.
Synopsis
'The Futurians' From the future of Earth, 2 factions wage war: the Inheritors & the scientific Futurians. The Inhertitors cause the sun to turn into a red giant, then escape the end of the world by traveling in time. To stop the Inheritors by manipulating the past, Futurians send genetic time bombs backwards in time, seeding humans with superhuman potential. Callistrax sends his mind to the past, taking over a transient in 1962. 20 years later, Vanderveckan the man that the Callistrax possessed reaps the rewards of that genetic seeding when he creates his line of defense against the Inheritors: The Futurians.
- 1st team appearance of The Futurians: Vandervecken, Avatar, Blackmane, Mosquito, Silkie, Silver Shadow, Sunswift, Terrayne, Werehawk
- Silkie was originally to be introduced by Dave Cockrum in Uncanny X-Men #150 (1981) but due to a dispute regarding creator rights, the character was later introduced in this issue
Details
- Series
- Marvel Graphic Novel
- Published Date
- January 1983
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- UPC
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