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Claremont, Chris & Smith, Paul. (Character Callisto first featured in) Uncanny X-Men # 169. 1983: Marvel Comics.

Also portrayed in numerous other comics, novels, television shows, and films based on the X-Men franchise.

Callisto is a mutant with enhanced physical senses, as well as superhuman tactical brilliance. After being forced to leave her human life behind, she moves underground, taking residence in an abandoned bomb-shelter, which she makes into a shelter for other mutants who have been shunted out of the mainstream human world.

Image: The cover of The Uncanny X-Men #170 features Callisto fighting Storm.

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