X-Men: Alpha #1 (Feb. 1995):
“Beginnings...”
by Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, etc.

X-Men: Alpha #1

Title: “Beginnings...”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1995

Publisher:
Written by: Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid
Art by: Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Tim Townsend, Dan Panosian

46 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Jean Grey	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  First Flight; Secret Defenders; Team X; The Avengers; The Canadian Army; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		10,615
Storm (Ororo Munroe)	Goddess worship	black; Lady Liberators...  Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; The Twelve; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)	Jewish	Excalibur; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Exiles; X-Men		3,128
Rogue (Anna Marie)	Southern Baptist	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men		3,526
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  The Ultimates; X-Factor		944
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh)	Catholic; LGBT	Academy of Tomorrow; Asian...  The 198; The New Mutants; X-Men		260
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)	Anglican (nominal); mystical	Excalibur		365
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
Gambit (Remy LeBeau)	Cajun Catholic	Horsemen of Apocalypse; The Marauders...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Ternals; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		954
Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)	Clan Akkaba; Transhumanist / Social Darwinist	Arab; Dark Riders (leader)...  Horsemen of Apocalypse (founder); The Alliance of Evil (founder)		315
White Queen (Emma Frost)	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men...  Generation X (teacher); The Cabal; The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle; X-Men		3,409
Havok (Alex Summers)	Catholic (lapsed)	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Dark Descendants; Magistrates; Old Landon College; Starjammers; X-Factor; X-Men [Cyclops' brother]		592
Sentinels	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
Bishop (Lucas Bishop)	X-Men veneration (lapsed)	black; NYPD...  The Twelve; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Xavier's Security Enforcers		548
Sabretooth (Victor Creed)	manifestly non-religious; future: Evangelical "born-again Christian"	Brotherhood of Mutants; Team X...  The Horsemen of Apocalypse; The Marauders; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Factor; X-Men		610
Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)		Alpha Flight; Gamma Flight...  Omega Flight; Weapon X; X-Factor		172
Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants...  Dark X-Men; Gene Nation; Genoshan Excalibur [Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]		116
Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)	Social Darwinist	Nasty Boys; The Horsemen of Apocalypse...  The Marauders; Weapon X		255
Blob (Fred J. Dukes)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Freedom Force; X-Cell; X-Corps		403
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits...  The 198		310
Unus the Untouchable (Angelo Unuscione)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three		69
Mariko Yashida	Shinto	Asian [Wolverine's late fiancee]		31
Moira MacTaggert		[Charles Xavier's colleague, girlfriend]		243
Morph (Kevin Sydney)		The Avengers; The Exiles...  The New Mutants; X-Men		182
Black King (Sebastian Shaw)		The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle		122
Holocaust (Nemesis)		The Exiles; The Horsemen of Apocalypse [was caretaker of a quarter of Apocalypse's nation]		29
Abyss (Nils Styger)	Nihilist	Neyaphem; The Horsemen of Apocalypse...  X-Cell [son of Azazel (Satan-like mutant)]		17
Fabian Cortez	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	The Acolytes; The Upstarts		70
Javitz (Isaac Javitz)	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	The Acolytes		18
Scanner (Sarah Ryall)	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	The Acolytes		45
Nanny		The Right		10
Bolivar Trask	anti-mutant	Control [inventor of Sentinels]		5
Charles Lehnsherr	Jewish Baptist (nominal)	X-Men [son of Magneto and Rogue]		16
Quark (Scarlett McKenzie)		[former lover of Havok]		6
Blink (Clarice Ferguson)		The Exiles; X-Men [member of X-Men in Age of Apocalypse timeline]		110
The Horsemen of Apocalypse		[1st app: X-Men: Alpha #1 (Feb. 1995)]		11
Infinites	Social Darwinist	[armies of the mutant overlord Apocalypse]		24
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (character based on)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Blink (Earth-616) (Clarice Ferguson) (character based on)  Age of Apocalypse Blink is this alternate reality's version of Earth-616 Blink.		Generation X; Selene's Inner Circle [mainstream Marvel (Earth-616)]		8

This publication is also known as: X-Men Alpha #1.

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