Synopsis by Robert Diehl:
Date: Jul-93
Story: The Man Who Wasn't There (45 pages)
Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver
Regular Characters: Val Cooper
Guest Stars: Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random)
Villains: Acolytes Fabian Cortez, Senyaka, Harlan and Sven Kleinstock, Andrew Hamish "Amos" Graves (Spoor), Javitz, Scanner, Joanna Cargill (Frenzy), Amelia Voght, Carmella Unuscione, Seamus Mellancamp, Exodus; Senator Robert Kelly; Sentinels
Other Characters: Nurse Leslie Murray, Dr. Johnson
Credits:
Writers: Scott Lobdell, Joe Quesada (plot); J.M. De Matteis (script)
Pencils: Joe Quesada
Inks: Al Milgrom
Letters: Richard Starkings
Background Assist: Cliff Van Meter
Colors: Glynis Oliver
Editor: Kelly Corvese
Group Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: The Acolytes attack a hospice in Wauntaugh, Virginia, wantonly killing and maiming "in Magneto's name"for no apparent purpose. X-Factor is brought in to investigate. Scanner observes them, especially Pietro, and reports to Cortez, who is based aboard the wreck of the Leningrad (see Uncanny X-Men 150, X-Men 1).
Spoor had been captured, and X-Factor interrogate him. He is defiant until Pietro enters, whom he reveres as "the only begotten Son"(of Magneto). X-Factor learn of a planned Acolyte attack on Cape Hayden, in Kentucky (which is inland and therefore has no capes), an obscure army base. Val takes Pietro and the bounty-hunter Random there, and Alex follows against orders with the rest of the team. They are interdicted by Exodus, who pauses, then flies off without a word.
Val finds Kelly on base, which turns out to be a facility for government-sponsored Sentinels (Project: Wideawake). Alex and team arrive, and all are outraged by the government's new stance against mutants. But Pietro insists that humans have the right to protect themselves against mutants like his father.
The Acolytes break in, and while they fight X-Factor, Kelly orders the evacuation of the Sentinels. Jamie is attacked by Mellancamp and creates a dupe inside him, gruesomely killing him. Frenzy confronts Kelly, and Rahne saves his life, then threatens him, giving him two things to think about.
Cortez offers Pietro leadership of the Acolytes as heir of Magneto, and although he turns it down, the thought remains. Voght ports the Acolytes away.
Val spits up a horror which the Acolytes had used to control her mind since issue 87. The team is still angry at her lying to them, and a rift is created.
NOTE: a pin-up follows, "Behold the Son of Magneto!"