About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: 1978 comic debuts, Comics characters introduced in 1978, Garfield, Mystique, Spider-Woman, Clayface, Moonstone, Firestorm, Quasar, Machine Man, Battlestar Galactica, Blackout, Commander Steel, Madame Xanadu, Odie, Devil Dinosaur, Heroes For Hire, Guardian, Killer Frost, Count Vertigo, Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, Ben Urich, Orana, Blue Streak, Carrion, Madame Zodiac, DC Implosion, Jon Arbuckle, DC Comics Presents, Man from Atlantis, Doctor Mist, Vanguard, Thinker, Air Wave, A Contract with God, Bethany Cabe, Starlord, Dweller-in-Darkness, Power Broker, Brothers Grimm, Moon-Boy, Life on Another Planet, Steve Dallas, D'Spayre, Big Wheel, Misty, Elementals, Sabre, 1984, Earthwar, Arsenal, The Cursed Earth, Hypno-Hustler, Needle, Multiplex, Cinnamon, Ultraa, Jude the Entropic Man, Karmang, Kiber the Cruel, Fadeaway Man, Hoder, Kogar, Virako, Marlene Alraune, Bounty Hunter, A Suivre, Pinki. Excerpt: Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a fictional character associated with the Marvel Comics' franchise X-Men. Originally created by artist David Cockrum and writer Chris Claremont, she first appeared in Ms. Marvel #16. Throughout most of her history, Mystique has been a supervillain, founding her own Brotherhood of Mutants and assassinating several important people involved in mutant affairs. Mystique herself is a mutant, a shapeshifter whose natural appearance includes blue skin and yellow eyes. At one point, she mentions that she is over 100 years old. Mystique is the mother of the villain Graydon Creed, the X-Men hero Nightcrawler, and adoptive mother of the hero Rogue. She is forced to abandon Nightcrawler, but raises Rogue for a number of years, and the two women have mixed feelings towards one another. Despite Mystique's history of crime, she works with the X-Men's Professor X in a short-lived series. She is later voted straig...
