Description
Marvel Graphic Novel : Revenge of the Living Monolith FN
Marvel 1st Edition Nov 1982
Prologue
Two young mutant runaways, Mark and Jill, are fleeing from a religiously motivated anti-mutant group known as the Purifiers. They chase the children into a playground, where they are executed with guns and strung up on a swing set with a sign labeling them “muties”. Their bodies are found by the X-Men’s long-time foe Magneto, who vows to make the killers pay for their crimes.
In New York City, the leader of the Purifiers, the popular televangelist Reverend William Stryker, finishes reading a Bible passage, Deuteronomy 17:2-5, before getting a call from his operatives. They report to him their findings about the X-Men, providing him information on its members, their powers, and the secret that they operate from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. When his aide enters to get him ready for his evening broadcast on the ABC network, Stryker hints that he is about to destroy the X-Men.
