Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 7


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Collects Uncanny X-Men #151-159, Avengers Annual #10, X-Men Annual #5. Kitty's leaving the School For Gifted Youngsters. Her new academic destination? The Massachusetts Academy, run by none other than Emma Frost, the Hellfire Club's White Queen - setting up the inevitable showdown between the X-Men and Sebastian Shaw's minions, with a classic, no-holds-barred, Storm/Emma catfight in the clouds! Next, it's the immortal "Kitty's Fairy Tale," a storybook fantasy that introduced Kitty's loyal pet dragon, the lovable Lockheed! Then, the first half of the all-time great "Brood Saga," with four-issues of space operatics starring the Starjammers, the Shi'Ar, and those disgusting parasites from beyond the outer limits, the Brood! Then it's the return of Rogue and Mystique's Evil Mutants and the coming of Dracula himself! Throw in a team-up with the X-Men and Fantastic Four combining forces against the Badoon, and, just because we love ya, the first appearance of Rogue and her pivotal meeting with Ms. Marvel.




Marvel Masterworks


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This Marvel Masterworks collections presents The X-Men series from the Silver Age of comic books.




X-Men Masterworks Vol. 7


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Collects Amazing Adventures #11-17, Incredible Hulk #150 and 161, Amazing Spider-Man #92, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4. Continuing the story of Marvel's original mutant adventurers, the MARVEL MASTERWORKS brings you the rarest X-Men appearances collected together! When the merry mutants hit the skids, they don't buckle under - they hit the road, and you're riding shotgun. So sit back and get ready for a set of stories that rock the X-Men world to this day! Pushed undercover by mutant paranoia run amok, the Beast sets off on his own, taking a genetic research job with the Brand Corporation. But Hank McCoy's scientific curiosity will come to curse him forever as an experiment gone horribly wrong turns him truly into a beast. Fanged, covered in head-to-toe fur, hunched over and driven to bouts of furious bloodlust, McCoy must struggle to retain his humanity as he struggles against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Quasimodo the Living Computer, Juggernaut, the mutant Mimic and the emerging menace of the Secret Empire that seeks to rend the X-Men asunder. Meanwhile, you'll see Havok and Polaris head to the desert Southwest - but somehow excitement doesn't stray far when the green-haired magnetic mutant encounters the green goliath himself, the Incredible Hulk! Iceman engages in aerial battle with someone who might not call him "friend," the Amazing Spider-Man - but all is forgiven when the combined X-Men team-up to aid the wall-crawler against the living vampire, Morbius!




Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 8


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Collects Uncanny X-Men #161-167 & X-Men Annual #6. It's an adventure in Belasco's mysterious Limbo realm that leaves Colossus' little sister Ilyana Rasputin aged from child to teenager in a moment. Then comes a classic tale of Professor X and Magneto in their younger days, before their philosophical fallout, teamed up to take down Baron Strucker and Hydra. But the real action is the conclusion of the epic Brood Saga! Teamed with the Starjammers and Shi'ar, the X-Men are in an all-out war for survival against the sleaziest parasites in outer space.




Marvel Masterworks


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1969: The X-Men, Marvel's poorest selling title, was in dire need of a shot in the arm. Enter Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, and get ready for one of the most amazing evolutions in Marvel history! These two titanic talents threw cauti on to the wind with sensational stories that brought the X-Men in synch with the thriving youth culture of the late '60s. Adams' lavish and dynamic visuals merged with Thomas' challenging and contemporary stories to create a comic book series that throbbed with the pulse of the times like none other. Thrill to the introduction of mutant mainstay Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the Mutates and Sunfire; and batt es against the Living Pharaoh and the Sentinels. COLLECTING: X-Men (1963) 54-66




X-Men Masterworks Vol. 1


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See the X-Men from the very beginning with the debut of Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl, Professor X's teen team with a mission of peace and brotherhood for man and mutant, in their first battle with the Master of Magnetism, Magneto. Written by Stan "The Man" Lee and illustrated by Jack "King" Kirby, it's super-hero adventure at its very best! Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #1-10.




Marvel Masterworks


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Gathers comics from the reimagining of the X-Men that began in 1974.




X-Men


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"Change is in the air for the-X-Men! Rachel Summers lays claim to the Phoenix Force, Magneto stands trial and joins the team, Professor X departs for outer space, and Cyclops becomes a father-- and that's just the start of the X-Men's adventures as the Beyonder erases the New Mutants from history, the futuristic Nimrod Sentinal attacks, and Mojo regresses the team to chiolldhood! Plus: in a pair of bona-fide X-Men classics, Storm duels Cyclops for team leadership, and Lady Deathstrike hunts Wolverine in a savage tale by Barry Windsor-Smith! Featuring the debut of Freedom Force, the villainy of Arcade and the Hellfire Club, and the birth of Nathan Christopher-Summers--the mutant who would one day become the time-traveling soldier known as Cable!"--p. [4] of cover.




The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2 (New Printing)


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Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and John Byrne took a little reprint series called X-MEN and turned it into the all-new, all-different titan that conquered comicdom. Now, you can experience the thrills and excitement of their classic tales from "The Dark Phoenix Saga" to "Days of Future Past" and so much more in this enormous Omnibus! COLLECTING: X-MEN (1963) 132-141, ANNUAL (1970) 4-5; THE UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) 142-153; AVENGERS ANNUAL (1967) 10; MARVEL FANFARE (1982) 1-4; MARVEL TREASURY EDITION (1974) 26-27; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 100; BIZARRE ADVENTURES (1981) 27; PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY (1984) 1




Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 9


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Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #168-175, X-Men Annual (1970) #7, Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) #5, Wolverine (1982) #1-4. By 1982, the Uncanny X-Men had become the biggest franchise in comic books. Chris Claremont's writing rose to find perhaps his most poignant and challenging expression of the mutant metaphor in "God Loves, Man Kills," while his work with Frank Miller on Wolverine skyrocketed the character's popularity. With the culmination of Paul Smith's classic run - featuring the growing romance between Kitty Pryde and Colossus, the first appearance of Callisto and the Morlocks, Rogue's debut as an X-Man.