As a teenager just starting into the worlcouple of issues of X-Factor. As I recall, the cover decorated with the figure of Iceman riding upon a wave of ice a spray of cold shooting from his fingertips excited me, particularly because I remembered even younger days waking up in the morning watching Spiderman and his Amazing Friends of which Iceman counted himself among. The story of the issue appealed to me and reading it marked the first time when a comic sunk its claws into me and compelled me to buy issue after issue. X-Factor became my comic and my team. TIn true heroic form,nfortunately, I found myself on the tail end of run because, right about that time, the old team of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel and Iceman abandoned the name in order to form a second X-men team. Fortunately, the old team dropped the name like a dinner scrap to a team of lesser-known, often misunderstood mutant heroes, Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, Madox the Multiple Man, and Strong Gu...