Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT, TERRY AUSTIN, SALLY PASHKOW, PETER SANDERSON & ANN NOCENTI
Penciled by JIM LEE, MARC SILVESTRI, ROB LIEFELD, MIKE VOSBURG, JIM FERN, MARK BAGLEY, RICK LEONARDI, KIERON DWYER, BILL JAASKA, MIKE COLLINS & WHILCE PORTACIO
Covers by JIM LEE
What happens when you combine an industry veteran at the top of his game with a hot, up-and-coming young artist, and let them loose on Marvel’s mightiest mutants? You get a fan-favorite, multi-year X-Men run unequaled in style, pizzazz and wall-to-wall action! It’s Chris Claremont’s most ambitious story arc ever, featuring Jim Lee’s dynamic debut issues and major changes to the X-Men’s status quo! Jubilee debuts just as the X-Men disband, granted new lives by the Siege Perilous! The Reavers enact gruesome revenge on Wolverine and decimate Muir Island, while Psylocke is transformed into a ninja! The Shadow King makes his play for Storm, culminating in the action-packed introduction of Gambit! Wolverine’s hidden past with Captain America and the Black Widow is revealed! And this is just the first volume! Collecting UNCANNY X-MEN #244-269, X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #13 and CLASSIC X-MEN #39.
704 PGS./Rated A...$125.00
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5822-6
Trim size: oversized
This is really a no-brainer. The Jim Lee run on the X-titles was Marvel's biggest success in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It's time that we get the whole thing in a high-end Omnibus collection. This looks like the first volume collecting everything from the UXM book before Claremont and Lee relaunch the series with a new #1.
Speaking of X-related omnibus, Jason Aaron's Wolverine books are also collected in an omnibus. Other than that, we also get the "X-Cutioner's Song" storyarc in a huge hardcover. That's about time. I no longer have my TPB so I'll probably pick that up. That's still the best Cable-Stryfe-Apocalypse story ever and is most representative of the X-Men in the 1990s.
Written by SCOTT LOBDELL, PETER DAVID & FABIAN NICIEZA
Penciled by BRANDON PETERSON, JAE LEE, ANDY KUBERT & GREG CAPULLO
Cover by ANDY KUBERT
The X-Men story so big, it took four books to contain it! When Cyclops and Phoenix are kidnapped — and Cable seemingly assassinates Professor X — the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force go to war...with each other! Witness epic battles around the globe and on the moon as Mr. Sinister’s subtle plan of vengeance on Apocalypse unfolds, and major revelations are made about the true identities of Cable and his twisted doppelganger Stryfe! Featuring blood, angst, sacrifice and great big guns as Marvel’s mutant families dance to the villains’ twisted tune! Collecting UNCANNY X-MEN #294-297, X-FACTOR (1986) #84-86, X-MEN (1991) #14-16, X-FORCE (1991) #16-18 and STRYFE’S STRIKE FILE.
368 PGS./Rated A ...$49.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5610-9
Trim size: oversized
