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Being the leader is never easy. When you lead a team of super-powered mutants with the fate of the world in the balance, the task is near impossible. One of Professor X's first recruits to the X-Men, Scott Summers possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of concussive force from his eyes.Cyclops is a man under pressure. Dealing with global threats on an almost daily basis while struggling to meet his own insanely high expectations, Scott is pushed to the brink of collapse. At his Professor's bequest, Cyclops sets out on a journey of self-discovery only to find himself once again embroiled in the affairs of other mutants. Without his teammates and against all odds, can Cyclops survive the maniacal evil of the man called Ulysses?

There's one in every class: a joker with amazing gifts, but lacking the ambition to tap his true potential. One of Professor Charles Xavier's original students, Bobby Drake found out the hard way that he still had a lot to learn. But once he glimpsed the full extent of his mutant power to freeze water molecules, Iceman returned to the X-Men with evolution on his mind! What does it take for this jovial prankster to lose his cool? Contacted by a long-lost love, Iceman travels to Hong Kong to lend a hand -- but will the frozen funnyman get scorched by the artificially enhanced Augmen in the land of the rising sun? What does the mysterious Winterbrand Corporation want with Bobby and his ex-girlfriend, Opal? And what's her big secret, anyway?

Little is known of the woman named Rogue. While even her real name remains hidden, this much is fact: she wields the uncanny ability to steal the abilities and memories of the people around her through skin-to-skin contact. This curse is her genetic birthright, a mutant anomaly that manifested itself in her formative teenage years. Since then, sheis been on the run, forever cut off from intimate human contact. Her only family is the X-Men, a group of mutants dedicated to the ideal of peaceful coexistence with mankind. Rogue has just joined the X-Men. Apprehensive and ostracized by her peers, she tries desperately to understand her new status and surroundings. An unfortunate incident with her teacher, Professor Xavier, prompts Rogue to flee once again towards an unknown future. Will her latest family fade into the past like so many others, or will Rogue finally find acceptance among the Children of the Atom? This journey of self-discovery will move and excite even a novice of X-Men lore.

Ben Grimm has bad luck. He never got the grades, he never got the girl, and Cosmic Rays shoved the ugly stick down his throat. But where did this stroke of bad luck come from? Is it all in his head? Or has karma caught up with Aunt Petunia's nephew? And what does it all have to do with a carnival attended by the FF's strongman during his youth? Take a look behind Ben's bathroom door, find out just what's underneath those rocks of his and rediscover why the Thing is the collest - and grumpiest - super-hero on Earth! Also features the Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night one-shot - written by Todd Dezago, and illustrated by Bryan Hitch and Ivan Reis!

An astonishing array of A-list talents unleash their unlimited imaginations on the mutants of Grant Morrison's New X-Men! Phoenix, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Psylocke, Cyclops, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Professor X and more take center stage in insightful and exciting solo stories - while foes take the focus in tales of Magneto, Sabretooth and Juggernaut! But which camp does Emma Frost, the newest teacher at the Xavier Institute, belong to? Shadowcat grieves for her best friend, Illyana Rasputin - and the love of her life, Colossus! Storm battles Magneto and lets loose with Yukio! Two sinister sisters adopt Lockheed! Nightcrawler undertakes a swashbuckling rescue mission! Wolverine must protect a mystical sword! And are the X-Men ready for a movie about their lives? COLLECTING: X-MEN UNLIMITED (1993) 35, 37-39, 46-47, 49-50; X-MEN UNLIMITED (2004) 1; MATERIAL FROM X-MEN UNLIMITED (1993) 34, 36, 40-43, 48

'There will be an island - not the first, but the last...' Promises were made. Promises were broken. The rulers of Krakoa have been playing a dangerous game with a dangerous woman, and they are about to see how badly that can burn them. Mastermind of the X-Men Jonathan Hickman brings his plans to a head, joined by an incredible lineup of artists beginning with Valerio Schiti... as one woman follows through on her promise to burn the nation of Krakoa to the ground. Collecting: Inferno (2021) 1-4

Collects X-Men: Magneto Testament #1-5.Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankind has ever seen. But in 1935, he was just another schoolboy - who happened to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons begins with a silver chain and a crush on a girl - and quickly turns into a harrowing struggle for survival against the inexorable machinery of Hitler's Final Solution.

With the original X-Men captured, Professor X recruits an All-New, All-Different team to take on the mantle of the Uncanny X-Men! Including Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Sunfi re, and Warpath, this new international cast redefined super-hero teams forever. The transition won't come easy, though. Wolverine and Cyclops will clash. X-Man will battle X-Man. Death and rebirth will visit the team, and an old nemesis will return. Also featuring the debut of Alpha Flight and the Weapon X program, the fi rst outer space saga with the Starjammers, and rare X-Men adventures. Comic-book titans Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, and John Byrne guide their new X-Men through it all, raising the series to the peak of white-hot popularity. And it all starts here! COLLECTING: VOL. 5; GIANT-SIZE X-MEN (1975) 1, X-MEN (1963) 94-110, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 53, 69-70, ANNUAL (1976) 1, IRON FIST (1975) 14-15, MATERIAL FROM FOOM (1973) 10

2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies—including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants—alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.

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