Five years after the cancellation of the X-Men, they were revived in Giant-Sized X-Men #1 featuring an international and multi-ethnic team sent to rescue the old team. When the series is relaunched with issue #94, the team is refined as Cyclops takes charge of a team consisting of Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Banshee, and Thunderbird. This team is defined by the loss of Thunderbird in their first mission and draw closer as a result, but the era is defined by a near death experience that transforms Marvel Girl into Phoenix. With her telekinetic and telepathic powers enhanced beyond imagination, she would become the X-Men's most powerful and unstable member culminating in her corruption and subsequent destruction in the Dark Phoenix Saga.
Although writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum were responsible for creating the popular new mutants, Chris Claremont developed the characters and expanded the scope of the stories into long, drawn out epics. His collaboration with John Byrne is largely regarded as the high point for this series. The Claremont/Byrne team concluded with Days of Future Past featuring a vision of a dark future in which the X-Men are dead and Sentinels roam the Earth. Although supposedly averted, this storyline continued to influence decades of X-Men stories as it seemed this fate was something that could only be delayed, not stopped. |
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Cyclops Storm Wolverine Phoenix Colossus Nightcrawler Banshee Thunderbird Kitty Pryde Rogue VILLAINS
Hellfire Club Emma Frost Alpha Flight Proteus The Brood SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Professor X Moira MacTaggert Starjammers Illyana Rasputin |
Collected Editions
Marvel Masterworks - The Uncanny X-Men - Vol. 1
Giant-Sized X-Men #1, The X-Men #94-100 Paperback |
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Marvel Masterworks - The Uncanny X-Men - Vol. 2
The X-Men #101-110 Paperback |
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Marvel Masterworks - The Uncanny X-Men - Vol. 3
The Uncanny X-Men #111-121 Paperback |
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Marvel Masterworks - The Uncanny X-Men - Vol. 4
The Uncanny X-Men #122-131, Annual #3 Paperback |
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Marvel Masterworks - The Uncanny X-Men - Vol. 5
The Uncanny X-Men #132-140, Annual #4, Phoenix: The Untold Story, Bizarre Adventures #27 Paperback |
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X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
The Uncanny X-Men #132-140, Annual #4, Phoenix: The Untold Story, Bizarre Adventures #27 Paperback |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Uncanny X-Men #138-143, Annual #4 Paperback |
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X-Men: From The Ashes
The Uncanny X-Men #168-176 Paperback |
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