MEPHISTO

In every installment of “If I Pass This Way Again,” we look at odd comic book plot points that were rarely (sometimes NEVER!) mentioned again after they were first introduced. Mephisto Vs. the Marvel Universe is an extremely bizarre miniseries by Al Milgrom and John Buscema. It almost reads like an excuse for John Buscema to get to draw a cool character like Mephisto. Anyhow, the four-issue series had Mephisto facing off against a major Marvel team in each issue, from the Fantastic Four to X-Factor to the X-Men to the Avengers. In the first issue, he screws with the Fantastic Four and, in the end, Invisible Woman agrees to trade her soul to Mephisto… In the second issue, he then trades Invisible Woman’s soul for Jean Grey’s soul… In the third issue, things get tricky. Mephisto encounters Rogue and gets her soul, but he also kisses her… What she doesn’t realize is that she has absorbed Mephisto’s, for lack of a better te