Thomas dies early in Jay's life due to black lung, developed from working in local Kentucky coal mines.

Jay's older siblings Sam (Cannonball) and Paige (Husk) are mutants as well, and both have been members of the X-Men.

He later entered the mainstream comics continuity as a member of a new incarnation of the Masters of Evil, created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley.

Although how he gained his powers and abilities is unknown, Bradley Kroon had plans to create the next ice age as the Icemaster.

at the Central Park Municipal Zoo, veterinarian Shanna O'Hara was asked to take her cubs Ina and Biri to Dahomey, Africa to release them into the wild.

She reappeared in the Krakoan era as a refugee in the "Embassy of Limbo" in New York in Dark X-Men (vol.

[18] While Ink waits in jail, a prison guard releases him, in the process revealing himself to be Cyclops, leader of the X-Men.

[20] "Cyclops" is later revealed to be Pierce in disguise, whose goal is to manipulate the Young X-Men into killing the former New Mutants.

Upon learning this, Ink appears to suffer a crisis of conscience and leads the Young X-Men and New Mutants to Pierce's hideout.

They subdue Pierce, but not before Wolf Cub is killed, leaving Ink to deal with his own feelings of guilt over his involvement.

[21] Later, it is revealed that Ink is actually a normal human being, and that his tattoo artist, Leon Nunez is a mutant.

Emma Frost runs a scan on him at Dani Moonstar's request that confirmed him as a baseline human, and Pierce knew this before he recruited him.

[22] Ink takes the knowledge hard and quits the team, feeling unwelcome already for his involvement with Pierce.

Then a girl named Cipher appears and tells him he's still an X-Man and his friends are being attacked by the Y-Men, a group of gang members similarly empowered like Ink by his tattoo artist.

[24] It is decided later that Ink will stay with the X-Men and train, Cyclops not wanting someone to run around with Phoenix-like powers unwatched.

[24] When Dust begins to die from a hidden health condition, Ink attempts to heal her with his caduceus tattoo, but fails.

He is successful, but the strain leaves him comatose, Beast stating that his mind has activity, but is subdued, "as if it's been overcharged".

[28] In a dystopic future depicted in the final two issues of "Young X-Men", a disproportionately aged, wheelchair-using, heavily tattooed, and seemingly brain dead Ink lives on "Xaviera", a former mutant safe-haven independent state and utopia along with adult versions of Anole and Graymalkin and an aged Emma Frost (now calling herself "Diamondheart"), and Wolverine, the only four remaining mutants on Xaviera.

They discuss Sooraya's resentment of mutants "allowing her to die" and how Ink "killed" and "corrupted" her soul and making her what she is now by reviving her.

during the Vietnam War whom William Stryker attempts to capture for Bolivar Trask's experiments before Mystique rescues him.

The character, created by Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe, first appeared in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #1 (September 1995).

Jason Ionello was a popular student at Midtown High School who would often pick on Peter Parker along with Flash Thompson, Liz Allan, Sally Avril and Tiny McKeever.

[36] Jason becomes depressed and attempts suicide, but is stopped by the Vulture who convinces him to blame Spider-Man for his problems.

Created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz, she first appeared in X-Men (Vol.

When the Amenthi Daemons invaded the island and split it into Krakoa and Arakko, Isca initially fought alongside her fellow mutants.

[42][43] After millennia of battle, Annihilation sent Isca to her sister Genesis with a proposal for the queen of Arakko to face the dark ruler of Amenth in a duel to death and end the war.

[43] Following Arakko's subjugation, Isca aided her lover, Tarn the Uncaring, in quelling dissent, imprisoning and torturing those who refused to submit to Annihilation.

Annihilation, refusing to accept defeat, summoned the full might of Amenth's forces to conquer Krakoa.

When the arrival of the X-Men, the Captain Britain Corps, and the Vescora turned the battle in Krakoa's favor, her powers again compelled her to defect to the opposing side.

Her powers will give her the skills required to win, manipulate probabilities in her favor, or slightly alter her appearance.