Previous Post > I don't have the issue in front of me, but was it a matter of the gene being discovered in him first or being manufactured in him? > > > > Does anyone else wonder how the emutant gene got spread around so much if it started with James Hewlett in the Forties? Man, that guy must have gotten it a lot and all over the world to account for the number of Ultimate mutants we've seen so far... James Hewlett is Mutant Zero.

> > I don't have the issue in front of me, but was it a matter of the gene being discovered in him first or being manufactured in him?
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> > > Does anyone else wonder how the emutant gene got spread around so much if it started with James Hewlett in the Forties? Man, that guy must have gotten it a lot and all over the world to account for the number of Ultimate mutants we've seen so far...
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> James Hewlett is Mutant Zero.

Well, Ultimate Mutant Zero, anyway. I doubt he's the mystery character in The Initiative series

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