The name wasn't changed to protect the innocent, but everything else was as Peter David took over the series from the founding X-Men! Alumni of the X-Men, the New Mutants and the Avengers join refugees from odd corners of the X-Universe as the government's latest super-effort, but Mister Sinister and his Nasty Boys don't want this team to survive long enough to get its roster straight! Featuring the historic first meeting of the cast of Marvel Knights' Madrox! Collects X-Factor #71-75.

X-Factor's part in the 'X-Cutioner's Song Saga' sets them against X-Force while the life of mutual mentor Professor X hangs in the balance. The mutant teams finally rally to the same side, only to be outnumbered by three-times the scheming as Apocalypse, Stryfe, and Mister Sinister vie to see who can kill them first!

Collects the earliest of Peter David's Hulk comics, originally published in 1987 and 1988.

Layla Miller. Jamie Madrox. Husband and wife. Lying murdered in their honeymoon suite. The moment you thought would never come is here, and not only are you a witness to it, but so is Jamie Madrox himself. We feel safe in saying that this is X-Factor as you've never seen them before, in what has to be the trippiest story arc in the history of Marvel. COLLECTING: X-Factor 229-232

Peter David's first, transformative X-FACTOR run in one volume! Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane and Strong Guy are the all-new, all-different X-Factor! Sanctioned by the U.S. government to protect humans from mutants -- and vice versa -- they take on threats including Mister Sinister and his Nasty Boys, the Mutant Liberation Front and...the Incredible Hulk?! But their most challenging encounter is on the couch of super hero psychiatrist, Doc Samson! Whether it's battling the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the shadow of Genosha, or clashing with X-Force during the X-Cutioner's Song saga, this unlikely band of heroes have team chemistry like nothing you've ever seen -- and a unique style of humor that makes this series a true classic! COLLECTING: X-Factor (1986) 55, 70-92; X-Factor Annual (1986) 7-8; Incredible Hulk (1968) 390-392; material from X-Factor Annual (1986) 5-6; New Mutants Annual (1984) 6

Alumni of the X-Men, the New Mutants and the Avengers join refugees from odd corners of the X-Universe as the government's latest super-effort, but Mister Sinister and his Nasty Boys don't want this team to survive long enough to get its roster straight!

Fantastic Four endeavors end in era-transcending odysseys when the World's Greatest Super-Team ventures into the Negative Zone, a remade past, and a future sculpted around the FF itself and, the death, life, and rebirth (not necessarily in that order) of Doctor Doom.