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Guest mutants who should not headline a folder

18 May 2026

Open book with illustrated pages

Covers lie cheerfully. A guest mutant on a wraparound can be absent from the story, while a tokenised page might spotlight that same guest because the crop looks dramatic. If you name the folder after the cover star, later you cannot find the actual team chapter.

The roster index therefore has two lists: “standing team” and “cover or crop guests.” A one-panel teleport gag stays on the guest list. Only mutants with dialogue or a fight beat in that chapter earn a standing-team tick.

Collectors who adopt the rule stop losing classroom issues inside a Storm box simply because Storm’s cape dominates the digital still.