UNCANNY X-MEN #500

Written by ED BRUBAKER & MATT FRACTION
Penciled by GREG LAND & TERRY DODSON
50/50 Wraparound Cover by ALEX ROSS
50/50 Wraparound  Cover by GREG LAND
Variant Cover by MICHAEL TURNER
Variant Cover by TERRY DODSON

“SFX”, PART 1!

Sentinels?  What?  And Magneto?  And is that the Master Mold?  What the hell is going on in San Francisco now that the Uncanny X-Men have relocated there?  They’ve got a new Headquarters and a new status quo as the gauntlet is thrown for a new era of mutantkind.  It’s all here in the double-sized anniversary issue that sets up the plotlines that will be developed over the next year in UNCANNY. And it’s all brought to you by the hot writing team of Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction (Immortal Iron Fist) and fan favorite artists Greg Land (ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY) and Terry Dodson (SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT, Wonder Woman). New creators, new home. The future begins now.

MARVEL SPOTLIGHT: UNCANNY X-MEN 500 ISSUES CELEBRATION

Written by JOHN RHETT THOMAS

In 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched a new title that featured a band of teenagers and their wheelchair-bound mentor, all possessing an "X-Tra" power that made them unique...and feared by humanity. UNCANNY X-MEN went through some early highs and lows before exploding back onto the scene in the late 1970s under the auspices of Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and John Byrne – fast becoming a phenomenon that would break out of the comics industry and become a worldwide sensation. It would make characters like Wolverine, Phoenix and Rogue household names, and launch the careers of talents like Paul Smith, Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee and Joe Madureira – to name just a few. In honor of UNCANNY X-MEN's milestone 500th issue, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT throws a party to celebrate one of the greatest comics of all time. Join us as we look back at 500 issues worth of amazing characters, top creative talent and some of the most powerful stories in the medium.

 

ASTONISHING X-MEN #25

Written by WARREN ELLIS
Pencils & Wraparound Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI

It’s the book you’ve been waiting for.  The superstar team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi are ready to take the X-Men to the “Second Stage”! “Messiah CompleX” pulled the X-Men team together, “Divided We Stand” tore them apart.  Now the X-Men are back to business -- with a new look, a new base of operations, and a mystery to solve that will take them into previously uncharted territory and test them to their core!
SFX TIE-IN

 

CABLE #5

Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Variant Cover by MARC SILVESTRI

The war that started in “Messiah CompleX” continues here!  Hang on to your Bjorn-straps, people: Here it is, the can’t-miss conclusion to “War Baby”! Both Cable and Bishop have crossed lines they thought they’d never cross. There’s no going back now.  And in the disaster-ravaged streets of a near-future Manhattan, it all comes down to which X-Man wants to accomplish
his objective more.  The gloves are off…the guns are loaded…and nobody’s going to walk out of this one unscathed…
including the baby!

 

 

NEW EXILES #8

Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by TOM GRUMMETT
Cover by ALAN DAVIS

The Exiles find themselves caught in a war on an Earth where Napoleon’s empire has been reigning for centuries, but the team has more than a few troubles to contend with.  Psylocke finds herself in the far east, where echoes of her past on her own Earth leave her reeling.  Gambit, meanwhile, finds himself in familiar waters on his first mission with the team, while the others get caught up in a web of politics and Imperial intrigue.

WOLVERINE #67

Written by MARK MILLAR
Pencils & Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN

“OLD MAN LOGAN”

Logan owes the Hulk Gang. He owes them big, and they’re not the kind to let a debt slide, even for the guy who—50 years ago—called himself Wolverine. So Logan’s agreed to a crazy ride across America with the blind archer, Hawkeye, to deliver a package to the East Coast. First stop: San Francisco…but only if Logan and Hawkeye can make it past—the GHOST RIDERS. MARK MILLAR and STEVE MCNIVEN—the best-selling creative team of the 21st century—continue the biggest Wolverine story the future has ever seen! Part 2 (of 8)

WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #5

Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by CLAYTON HENRY
Cover by SALVADOR ESPIN

“TO ME, MY X-MEN! You must immediately pursue
Wolverine into Canada! He has defected back to ALPHA FLIGHT...and taken Kitty Pryde with him!”

WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #27

Written by DANIEL WAY
Penciled by STEPHEN SEGOVIA
Cover by GREG LAND

“SON OF X”

The origin of Daken, the son of Wolverine! Following in his father’s footsteps, Daken is inducted into a secret society of killers and trained by the master himself—the mysterious being known as Romulus. But now that Daken has been freed from his master’s grasp by his father, Wolverine, has his training ended…or has it just begun? Part 2 (of 2).

 

X-FACTOR #33

Written by PETER DAVID
Pencils by LARRY STROMAN
Cover by BOO COOK

Secret Invasion tie-in!  A She-Hulk crossover!  Darwin and Longshot show up!  New cover artist, Boo Cook! New interior artist, Larry Stroman! And...oh yeah...X-Factor's new digs!  What do we have to do, put it in your hands ourselves?!

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #14

Written by JEFF PARKER
Art and Cover by ROGER CRUZ

The X-Men's new friend Aaron isn't acting quite right. As it turns out, neither are the rest of the X-Series androids back at his secret facility. You might even say they're starting to become... murderously unstable.
PLUS: A Colleen Coover Cartoon!

 

X-FORCE #5

Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE
Pencils & 50/50 Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
50/50 Bloody Variant Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
“ANGELS AND DEMONS”
It began with one simple mission: Kill the Purifier leader Matthew Risman before he kills any more mutants. But everything went to hell…and now it gets worse. Wolfsbane’s decent continues. War rages between Risman and Bastion. The Choir rises. And if that weren’t enough... it’s X-FORCE VERSUS ARCHANGEL. Part 5 (of 6)

X-MEN: LEGACY #214

Written by MIKE CAREY
Penciled by SCOT EATON
Cover by ALAN DAVIS

Sinister’s machinations finally come to a head, after decades of preparations. Can Xavier discover the secrets to the plot against his mind before his loses his sanity? Or will he become another in a long line of victims? Either way, he just may learn things about his past he’ll come to regret. Guest starring Sebastian Shaw and the deadliest gator in the swamp, Gambit!

 

YOUNG X-MEN #4

Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Penciled by YANICK PAQUETTE
Cover by TERRY DODSON

“NEW GENESIS,” part 4 (of 5)

It’s the Young X-Men vs. the Hellfire Club!  Will the kids survive?  Marc Guggenheim (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, WOLVERINE, Eli Stone) and Yanick Paquette (ULTIMATE X-MEN) pack more surprises than you can handle into this issue.  Do not miss this!

 

GENEXT #3 (of 5)

Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by PATRICK SCHERBERGER
Cover by DOUG GREGORYALEXANDER

No-Name.  Her past is a mystery, both to her fellow students at the Xavier Institute as well as the faculty and staff.  Nevertheless, that past is coming back to haunt her.  When her teammates awake to find their nameless friend missing, there’s no way they can just let the matter go, no matter what the school’s headmasters say!  Continuing the story of the offspring of the X-Men we know
from writer who made the X-Men what they are today, Chris Claremont!