Longshot is a fictional
superhero appearing in
American comic books published by
Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the
X-Men. Created by writer
Ann Nocenti and artist
Art Adams, he first appeared in
Longshot #1 (September 1985), the first issue of a six-issue miniseries that represents the first major work of both Nocenti and Adams. The
Longshot series established Longshot as an amnesiac fugitive from another dimension who discovers that he has favorable probability outcomes, or "good luck," that protect him when his motives are pure, and that he was a genetically engineered slave who led a rebellion on his dystopian world against his former master and archenemy,
Mojo.