Agent X (Nijo Minamiyori, alias Alex Hayden) is a fictional mercenary whose adventures have been published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Agent X #1 (Sept 2002), by Gail Simone and UDON.
The series, a pseudo-spin-off of Deadpool, continued the cynical, slapstick, and highly-polished action which had characterized its parent series. Indeed, a central feature of Agent X was the question of the title character's identity, sometimes implied t...
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Agent X (Nijo Minamiyori, alias Alex Hayden) is a fictional mercenary whose adventures have been published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Agent X #1 (Sept 2002), by Gail Simone and UDON.
The series, a pseudo-spin-off of Deadpool, continued the cynical, slapstick, and highly-polished action which had characterized its parent series. Indeed, a central feature of Agent X was the question of the title character's identity, sometimes implied to be Deadpool himself. Deadpool refers to Agent X as his "Earth-2 Counterpart", which was a comedic reference to DC Comics' designation of different Earths for different iterations of identical and similar characters.
Agent X was born out of Marvel Comics' long- running Deadpool series, whose sales had slumped to cancellation point, with experiments including the "miniseries within a series", (Deadpool: Agent of Weapon X and Deadpool: Funeral for a Freak, where the main series' numbering was demoted to secondary status below the "miniseries"...
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