Whilce Portacio

Desperate to reconnect with the Hulk, Bruce Banner creates a gamma-irradiated island that he hopes will rejoin him with the monster and seeks answers to how the Hulk managed their separation in the first place.

"The X-Men are reunited with Professor X, who asks them to help overthrow the Shi'ar tyrant Deathbird ... but all is not as it seems, and the X-Men must deduce the truth before it's too late! Meanwhile, sparks fly as Rogue and Magneto team up to save the Savage Land! Then, the X-Men and X-Factor unite to battle the Shadow King ... but the price of their victory is more than Professor X can stand! And as a new team rises from the ashes of the old,...

Collects Journey Into Mystery #626.1 & 627-631. Only Loki can save us! Fear has taken hold of the planet, and Earth's only hope is that Thor can fulfill an ancient prophecy and destroy the Serpent - at the cost of his own life. It's a plan that's doomed to fail - without help from Loki, who was once Asgard's greatest villain.

Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #289-296, X-Men (1991) #10-16, X-Factor (1986) #84-86 and X-Force (1991) #16-18. Mutantkind marked for X-cution! Life is as volatile as ever for the X-Men as Storm and Forge's romance reaches a dramatic turning point, and the fates of the Morlocks and Mikhail Rasputin collide! Meanwhile, Mojo pits mutant against mutant, and secrets from Professor X's past are revealed! But when Cyclops and Phoenix are kidnapped - and...

He has miraculously awoken from a coma, dodged being burned alive in a hospital fire, and fought his way to find answers about his past. Now, our new Spawn, Jim Downing, learns a crucial piece of information that changes the game completely.

An aggravated Jim starts taking matters into his own hands, tracking down any lead that comes his way. Across town, Clown and another inmate escape from the holding cell while on Sam and Twitch's watch. The Virginia detectives begin to make connections in the suicide of estate lawyer, Bill Winston, and ill reporter, Marc, receives a strange call from an anonymous source.

After a long journey searching for an explanation to his extraordinary powers, Jim learns he is a true Spawn. With no recollection of his life prior to his coma, Jim is challenged with filling in the gaps to his jumbled past. Answers don't come easy.

Collects Iron Man (1996) #1-12; Avengers (1996) #6, 12; Fantastic Four (1996) #12; Captain America (1996) #12; material from Heroes Reborn (1996) #1/2; Captain America (1996) #6. In 1996, the hottest creators of the day teamed up to reimagine and reinvigorate Marvel's greatest heroes. The Avengers and Fantastic Four were reborn with bold new looks on a brave new world, their origins re-envisioned with a raw vitality and contemporary sensibility! Industrialist...

Delivering justice from New York to Japan! Gary Saunders is on death row - but the law doesn't move fast enough for the Punisher! The kids at Malcolm Shabazz High School had better behave for their new substitute teacher: Mr. Castle! But how does that lead to Frank trying to topple the Kingpin? He's determined to take down Wilson Fisk once and for all - and it's all building to a brutal face-off! Then, Frank heads to Las Vegas in search of an assassin!...

Jim continues to struggle to remember his past while trying to come to terms with the dark power that now dwells within him. Wrestling for control of the Spawn entity, he soon discovers that power is not only corrupting, it is addictive.