Rise of Apocalypse

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The Rise of Apocalypse
Apocalypse as featured in #3
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Publication date	October 1996 - January 1997
Number of issues	4
Main character(s)	Apocalypse
Creative team
Writer(s)	Terry Kavanagh
Penciller(s)	Adam Pollina
Inker(s)	Allen "Al" Milgrom Mark Morales
Colorist(s)	Christian Lichtner

The Rise of Apocalypse is a four-issue limited series published in 1996 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Terry Kavanagh, and drawn by Adam Pollina.

[edit] Plot summary

5,000 years ago, a baby is found in the Egyptian desert by a band of nomad raiders. The child is raised and named En Sabah Nur by the tribe's leader, Baal, who teaches the boy survival of the fittest. During the same time, Egypt is ruled by the Pharaoh Rama-Tut, in actuality, the time traveller Kang the Conqueror, who has arrived from the future to claim En Sabah Nur as his heir, because of the fact that the boy will grow up to become one of the most powerful mutants and notorious villains in history; Apocalypse. Nur's tribe is destroyed by Tut's armies. Before Baal dies as well, he tells Nur that he is destined of greater things. Seeking revenge, En Sabah Nur travels to Rama-Tut's city where he hides himself as a slave and falls in love with Nephri, the sister of Ozymandias, Tut's general. But Nur is eventually rejected by Nephri, upon seeing his disfigured visage. His mutant powers awakening, he enslaves Ozymandias while Rama-Tut flees. Having renamed himself Apocalypse, he now sets out to destroy the weak. ^[1]

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