Three decades ago, Marvel Comics pulled back the curtain on one of the X-Men’s most formidable foes: Apocalypse. His cameo in X-Factor #5 and subsequent full appearance in X-Factor #6 marked the rise of a villain whose impact on mutant storytelling endures to this day.

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