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Created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Walt Simonson, Rictor first appeared in X-Factor # 17 ( June 1987 ).

Rictor was introduced in the late 1980s under Louise Simonson's run on X-Factor vol.

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X-Factor owed its early popularity to reuniting of the five original X-Men characters.

As the series continued, it needed to distinguish itself from the earlier X-Men stories.

New characters were introduced to the series, and Simonson's run introduced Mexican earth-manipulator Rictor as one of several young wards to the senior X-Men characters.

These characters would be spun-off into their own title, Simonsons's X-Terminators, in 1988.

Simonson would later transfer Rictor to the cast of The New Mutants, during her run on that series, when she made sweeping changes to the existing cast and folded several of the X-Terminators into the New Mutants team.