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X-Files: Volume 3                         Trade Paperback
Based on The X-Files created by: Chris Carter

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 10, 1993, to May 19, 2002, on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes premiered on January 24, 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, Fox announced in April 2017 that The X-Files would be returning for an eleventh season of ten episodes. The season premiered on January 3, 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files, which took place as part of the TV series continuity, and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run had ended. The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a medical doctor and a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder’s discoveries.

The X-Files: Volume 3 collects the exploits of everyone’s two favorite FBI agents. This compilation offers X-Files fans original stories to enjoy, and also gives this well admired yet hard to find series new life in trade paperback form. Volume 3 collects issues 23-26, with bonus features of the “Hero Illustrated” special edition issue and the episode adaptations of “Fire” and “Ice”. Featuring original stories by writers John Rozum and Stefan Petrucha, interior art by Charles Adlard and John Van Fleet, with additional art created by world-renowned artist Miran Kim, this collection is a must-have for any X-Files fan.

X-Files: Volume 3 contains:The X-Files (1996) Issues #23-26 – 1996
Writer: John Rozum
Artists: Charles Adlard & Gordon Purcell
Inker: Josef Rubenstein

In part #1, “Donor”, Have you signed your organ donor card? If you haven’t, how would you feel if your spouse decided to donate your organs after you died? Hopefully not like the man Mulder and Scully are chasing. He seems intent on retrieving his organs from their recipients.

Next in part #2, “Silver Lining”, A man disfigured in a car accident finds a coat with a special lining. It can drain the life from others and use it to repair his damaged face. Can Scully and Mulder find him and stop him before his transformation is complete and he disappears?

Next in part #3, “Be prepared. Part 1”, A group of Boy Scouts set out on a survival adventure. When one of the Scout Masters goes off the deep end the boys run off, but only some of them escape. Mulder and Scully show up to take the case. When Scully asks why he is interested, Mulder says the Scout Master sounds like he is suffering from the Windigo Syndrome, something that has seemed to be turning men into monsters in the area for years. They find even more evidence when they track down the Scout Master

Finally in part #4, “Be prepared. Part 2”, Is the missing Scout Master more or maybe less than he seems? Scully and Mulder track down the other half of the Scout troop and run head long into the missing Scout Master and a grizzly bear.
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X-Files Season One – Fire – 1998
Writers: Chris Carter & Roy Thomas
Artist: John Van Fleet

Mulder must overcome his phobia of fire to catch a mutant killer with fire-controlling capabilities. Adapted from the twelfth episode of the television series.
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X-Files Season One – Ice – 1998
Writers: Glen Morgan, James Wong & Roy Thomas
Artist: John Van Fleet

In an Arctic research station, Mulder and Scully are threatened by primordial ice worms that cause their hosts to become dangerously paranoid. Adapted from the eighth episode of the television series.
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The X-Files/ Hero Illustrated Special (1995) #1
Writer: Stefan Petrucha
Artist: Charles Adlard

In “Trick of the Light”, Inside a house in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 2 a.m. on March 5, 1995, a young boy is reading a book in bed, with a flashlight under a sheet, when an immensely bright light suddenly grows in intensity, nearby. The boy screams. The next day, FBI Agent Scully watches Agent Mulder pin a photograph of the boy next to several similar photographs, in Mulder’s office at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.. Mulder implies that the boy is one of a series of people who have gone missing but Scully, who suspects that similarities between the people are coincidental, states that she thinks a conclusion of alien involvement would be incorrect. Due to a lack of evidence, Mulder admits that Scully is probably right but then notices, outside, a billboard featuring the boy. On the following day, Scully and Mulder visit Intricate Designs Art Agency in Madison, Wisconsin, where they speak to a woman who has many artful clients. When the woman mistakenly wonders if the FBI’s intentions involve promotion, Scully reveals the real reason why she and Mulder are there, asking to talk with one specific client who, the agents have learned, did the artwork for the billboard. The woman remarks that her client, Herbert Thurber, is weird. She immediately assumes that he is guilty of something, but Mulder clarifies that he and Scully are uncertain whether that is true and asks if the woman has a copy of the artist’s portfolio. Having returned to FBI Headquarters, Scully passes comment, at 10 p.m. that night, on the discovery that other pictures created by Thurber match the photographs on Mulder’s bulletin board.

Scully is convinced that Thurber is responsible for the disappearances but Mulder suggests, mentioning that the artwork has preceded each disappearance, that the artist could be psychic. Scully refutes this possibility due to a lack of evidence. At 5 p.m. two days later, the duo arrive at Thurber’s home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and both agents remark on the eccentric design of the artist’s abode. Mulder introduces himself and Scully to the artist, showing his badge to Thurber. With a stutter, the artist reluctantly talks with the agents, cryptically claiming that the faces of his subjects simply come to him when he sees pictures in his mind and that, when he closes his eyes, there is a blackness but he is not alone and it is not dark. Mulder accompanies the seemingly tense artist through the house to a seat while Scully, following close behind them, hears a peculiar scratching noise. Thurber, now seated, continues telling Mulder, allegedly from personal experience, that what a person sees can likewise see its witness and can then come for that person. As the artist tells Mulder that these things like to collect humans – possibly because the unnamed group enjoy hearing people scream upon being poked by the anonymous group – and the strange scratching continues, Scully opens a trapdoor in the floor and finds the boy. Later, the agents stand outside Thurber’s home, as a dig proceeds there. Mulder recounts to Scully that the artist testified he was protecting the boy, Jack, from the unnamed group but Mulder admits to the seeming probability that the artist was guilty, the same conclusion that Scully came to, earlier.

At 2 a.m. on the following night, the artist, in confinement at St. Paul Correctional Facility, murmurs in his sleep, pleading to be left alone and allowed to open his eyes. Scully and Mulder are led down a corridor by a guard, Mulder stating that the dig was unsuccessful and the guard skeptically recalling that the artist was crying on the previous night that aliens were coming. The group find that the artist has disappeared from his cell. At 1 p.m. two days earlier, at a reputable comic publisher in Manhattan, New York, a package is handed to a man who has been looking for it and is amused when he is told that it was found on his own desk. While opening the package, the man describes its contents as Thurber’s artwork for new Mars Attacks cards and informally notes that he has not had contact with the artist. Sitting in shadow, the man criticizes the artwork, seeing that the artist used himself as his own model and holding an image of Thurber being abducted from his own cell.
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Trade Paperback reprints/collects from Topps Comics:
The X-Files (1996) Issues #23-26.
The X-Files: Season One – Fire (1997)
The X-Files: Season One – Ice (1997)
The X-Files/ Hero Illustrated Special (1995) Issue #1

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First Edition
Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2005
Format: FC, 200 pages, TPB, 10.2″ x 6.65″
ISBN-10: 1933160399
ISBN-13: 9781933160399

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious X-Files collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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