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...greatest, and certainly most historically significant, X-Men stories ever told.
While Simonson's takeover has aligned with the series seeming to find its characters' voices, the quick "closure" she brings to the Scott-Jean-Maddie plot (in so far as the secret is out) has...
The team heads back to America with few boxes on the Uncanny X-Men Annual Bingo chart checked (see @uncannyxcerpts for details), and Layton (finally) leaves the series.
But wouldn't it be funny if Heinrich survived and was on the plane with them? No? No.
(The End.)
...originates and where else it's been use in the Run and comics at large.
In their evacuation of the facility, Blind Faith manipulates X-Factor into turning him over to Soviet authorities to maintain their cover, which makes truly no sense but is how today's story ends.
...Bobby and the mutant freedom fighters break into the facility to rescue X-Factor.
If the issue accomplishes just one character beat, it's too establish Bobby's discomfort with death as compared to his teammates, as a fight between he and Heinrich leaves the other falling...
X-Factor leaves the conference, set to dismantle Heinrich's operation, albeit unknowing of his presence in their midsts.
Hank tries to point out that Bobby is acting out of character, but back under Layton, it's something that needs to be told rather than shown...
...to bait Bobby into separating from the group with promises of an "attractive, but somewhat introverted" secretary with eyes for Americans.
Bobby, ever-ready to overcompensate for the secret he'll keep for the next thirty years, jumps at the opportunity and falls right into...
...to the conference they're set to present at.
Earlier than expected, the group is introduced to Dr. Heinrich, who by way of handshake is able to determine that Bobby is a mutant, and there's more than meets the eye when it comes to X-Factor.
Sensing that he might be able...
...not by their own actions–the mutants reject the ambassadors open arms until a Senator with state secrets to trade personally directs them to go in pursuit of mad-Soviet-scientist Dr. Wolfgang Helmut Heinrich.
If what I'm describing sounds like an awfully mad-cap Silver-Age...
...but those of a worldwide audience as well.
Intrigued by their trade-secret methods for mutant hunting, representatives from the USSR have extended an invitation to X-Factor to present at something of Soviet We-Hate-Mutants-Convention.
Disgusted by the invitation–and yet...
...mutants as mutant hunters is that it's given the Original Five X-Men a taste of being celebrated heroes... something few of them would likely admit is as intoxicating as it probably feels.
But their actions haven't just caught the attention of the United States government...