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Issue Details

Issue #100
Published April 1991
Cover Price 1.50
Pages 52
Editing Bob Harras (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Notes Gold 2nd Print and Silver 3rd Print Exist

Cover Details

Characters Cable; Cannonball; Boom Boom; Domino; Warpath; Feral; Shatterstar
Genre superhero
Pencils Rob Liefeld
Inks Rob Liefeld
Letters Typeset
Notes Gold 2nd Print and Silver 3rd Print Exist
Reprinted In Cable: Second Genesis #1 (Aug. 1999); In X-Force Megazine #1 (Nov. 1996)

38 page New Mutants story "The End of the Beginning"

Characters FEATURE: New Mutants [X-Force]--Cable; Boom Boom; Cannonball; Warpath; Domino [Vanessa; Copycat]; Feral (Joins); Shatterstar [1st Full; Joins]; VILLAINS: Masque; Brute (Death); Hump; Imperial Protectorate (1st); Stryfe [1st; Looks exactly like Cable]; Mutant Liberation Front [1st team]--Rusty Collins; Skids; Forearm (1st); Kamikaze (1st); Reaper (1st); Sumo (1st); Tempo (1st); Wildside (1st); Zero (1st); CAMEO FLASHBACK: Mojo; Spiral; Wolverine; Storm; Colossus; Rogue
Synopsis Shatterstar shows up in the Danger Room and the New Mutants have to help him defeat Mojo's Soldiers; Feral also arrives at the Mansion and Cable helps get Masque off of her back; Agreeing to try Cable's new proactive stance in the mutant struggle, the New Mutants leave X-Mansion behind and officially become X-Force.
Genre superhero
Script Rob Liefeld (plot); Fabian Nicieza
Pencils Rob Liefeld
Inks Rob Liefeld
Colors Brad Vancata
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Part 3 of 3. Final issue. Domino, Shatterstar, and Feral join. The New Mutants (now called X-Force) appear next in New Mutants Annual #7, and then in X-Force #1; Pages 27 and 28 of the story are the infamous Liefeld swipe of a two page sequence from Frank Miller's Ronin from DC Comics.
Reprinted In Cable: Second Genesis #1 (Aug. 1999); In X-Force Megazine #1 (Nov. 1996)