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Rictor (Julio Esteban Ric Richter) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe who appears in the X-Men family of books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Walt Simonson and first appeared in X-Factor #17 (June 1987). In subsequent years the character was featured as a member of the original New Mutants team and the original X-Force team and continued to appear in various X-Men franchise publications thereafter.