Marvel Officially Crowns Sabretooth Its New King of Hell
WARNING: Major spoilers for Sabretooth #1 ahead!
One of Marvel Comics' most brutal villains, the mutant Sabretooth, just became the figurative King of Hell, acting as the ruler of the X-Men's mutant prison. While the new mutant nation of Krakoa opened its door for «all mutants,» Victor Creed quickly proved that he is an irredeemably evil and murderous creature, and was almost immediately sentenced to an eternity in The Pit, before being mentally fried by the living island itself.
Sabretooth, first introduced in Iron Fist #14 by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Dan Green, Janice Cohen, Gaspar Saladino and Annette Kawecki, was a consistent enemy of Iron Fist, Power Man, and Spider-Man for the first decade of his publication. He was then reintroduced as a member of Mister Sinister's vicious Marauders team during the acclaimed «Mutant Massacre» event. Since then he has regularly been seen as one of the X-Men's most feared villains, and it has been established that he has a long and violent history with Wolverine, hunting Logan down and attempting to kill him on his birthday every year. During Jonathan Hickman's defining new era for the X-Men, House of X/Powers of X, Sabretooth, now an agent of Krakoa, was sent to retrieve information from the Damage Control organization with Mystique and Toad, leading to this eventual imprisonment in the Krakoan prison called The Pit.
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Now, in Sabretooth #1 — written by Victor LaValle with art by Leonard Kirk — readers finally get to see what has happened to Victor since he was exiled from Krakoa and imprisoned in The Pit. Sabretooth #1 begins with Victor seemingly escaping and brutally slaughtering all of the main X-Men, something he has
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