X-FORCE VS DEADPOOL (1990-1991)

The X-Men are back! The New Mutants become X-Force! X-Factor return to the X-Men! It's all change in the X-teams' corner of the Marvel Universe!
PLUS: The New Fantastic Four and Deadpool make their debut...

• Wolverine: Bloodlust (1990) Wolverine hunts were-creatures in Siberia.
• Marvel Comics Presents #75[3/4] (1991) Excalibur's Meggan and Shadowcat stop an assassin working for Roxxon.
• Marvel Fanfare #54[2/2]-55[2/2] (1990-1991) Wolverine kills a mad scientist who's turning animals into living weapons.
• Ghost Rider #9 (1991) X-Factor try to take down the new Ghost Rider when they believe he's been kidnapping Morlocks.

• Marvel Comics Presents #64[1/4]-71[1/4] (1990-1991) Wolverine and Ghost Rider join forces against Deathwatch.
• Sensational She-Hulk #26 (1991) She-Hulk and Excalibur are manipulated by the WHO (Weird Happenings Organisation).

• Excalibur #35 (1991) D'Spayre makes Phoenix believe Ahab has returned.
• Fantastic Four #347-349 (1990-1991) Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man and Hulk form a new Fantastic Four when they're led to believe the original team has been murdered.
• Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four #3 (2010) The new FF battle the original FF.

• X-Factor #63-64 (1991) Marvel Girl goes to Japan with Iceman when his girlfriend is kidnapped by Cybersamurais.
• Excalibur #36 (1991) Arnim Zola pits Excalibur against the Outlaws.

• Wolverine #35-37 (1991) Wolverine and Puck's conflict with Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers gets them all sent back to World War II.
• Excalibur #37-39 (1991) Excalibur battle it out with the West Coast Avengers when Doctor Doom tries to claim the Soulsword.
• Uncanny X-Men Annual #15[4/4] (1991) Wolverine dreams he's fighting his own adamantium skeleton.

• Excalibur #40-41 (1991) Lockheed's species come to Earth to try to take him home and Excalibur face the Warwolves disguised as the X-Men.
• Web of Spider-Man #73-74 (1991) Colossus tries to continue with his new life, but ends up helping Spider-Man against the Headmen and the Avant Guard.
• Marvel Team-Up #19 (2006) Wolverine and Cable vs the Mandarin.

• Uncanny X-Men #273 (1991) X-Factor drop in on the New Mutants and reformed X-Men; Lila Cheney teleports the X-Men to Shi'ar space.
• New Mutants Annual #7[3/3] (1991) Cyclops and Marvel Girl take the X-Terminators to a concert.
• New Mutants #98-100 (1991) First appearance of Deadpool, 'Domino', Feral, Gideon, Shatterstar and X-Force; Cable reshapes the New Mutants into X-Force; Rictor and Sunspot leave as new members Domino, Warpath, Feral and Shatterstar join; the team tackle Deadpool and Masque's Morlocks; Stryfe is revealed to look exactly like Cable.

• New Mutants Annual #7[1/3] / New Warriors Annual #1[1/9] / Uncanny X-Men Annual #15[1/4] / X-Factor Annual #6[1/3] (1991) X-Force, X-Factor and the Muir Island X-Men join forces with the New Warriors to prevent the resurrection of Proteus during KINGS OF PAIN.
• New Mutants Annual #7[2/3] / Uncanny X-Men Annual #15[2/4] / X-Factor Annual #6[2/3] (1991) The remains of Freedom Force are sent on a suicide mission and not everyone makes it back alive during THE KILLING STROKE.
• Uncanny X-Men Annual #15[3/4] (1991) Mojo retells the X-Men's origin.
• Excalibur Special: The Possession #1 (1991) Excalibur are manipulated by someone claiming to be Merlin.

• X-Factor #65-68 (1991) First appearance of the Dark Riders and Askani; Apocalypse attacks X-Factor, destroys their Ship and infects Cyclops' son, Nathan Summers, with a techno-organic virus; Nathan is taken to the future to be cured by Askani.
• Uncanny X-Men #274-277 (1991) Magneto kills Zaladane in the Savage Land, ending his relationship with Rogue and being considered a villain again; the X-Men and the Starjammers stop the War-Skrulls from taking over the Shi'ar Empire.

• Uncanny X-Men #278-279 / X-Factor #69 / Uncanny X-Men #80 / X-Factor #70 (1991) Professor X returns to Earth with the X-Men and free Muir Island from the Shadow King's control with X-Factor; X-Factor decide to return to the X-Men during THE MUIR ISLAND SAGA.
• Excalibur Special Edition: Air Apparent #1 (1991) Excalibur discover a bad guy who's using the Air-Walker robot for his own nefarious purposes.
• New Warriors Annual #1[9/9] (1991) Beast rescues Robbie Baldwin from a near-death experience when he temporarily loses his Speedball powers.

Up Next: THE INFINITY GAUNTLET