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All Cyclops Wanted Was A Treehouse (X-Men #1 Spoilers)
But is it possible that someone misheard Scott Summers and what he really, really wanted was a treehouse? In today's X-Men #1 by Gerry Duggan (doing his very best Jonathan Hickman impersonation) and the utter gorgeousness of Marvel's premier artist Pepe Larraz, Scott gets his wish. The new New York headquarters of the X-Men, on land[...]
The Children Of The Atom's Origins Finally Revealed (Spoilers)
Silva COTA'S BEEN CAPTURED! Someone is out for revenge on the X-MEN and you'll never guess who! The CHILDREN OF THE ATOM, caught in the crossfires of the war on mutants, need a hero And that hero might just be among them! Rated T+In Shops: Jul 07, 2021 SRP: $3.99 CHILDREN OF ATOM #6 JUN210640 (W) Vita Ayala (A)[...]
Cover image for X-MEN #1
The pace of the comic book relaunch cycle continues to accelerate this week when X-Men #1 hits stores from Marvel Comics Back in the day, whenever a new creative team would come onto a series, it would just continue along with the next issue number in the series But in the last two decades, and[...]
Cover image for HELLIONS #13
There are certain things you can always count on in the X-Men Universe Wolverine will always stab things, be it with his claws, or with his dicks) Professor Xavier is always going to be a dick Crossover events must spring up AT LEAST once every three months And, of course, if there's an orphaned child[...]
Marvel Cancels More Diamond Orders, Shops Must Reorder On New Terms
Marvel Comics have now added some more titles that have had their orders cancelled and must be reordered. Marvel Cancels More Diamond Orders, Shops Must Reorder On New Terms ALIEN TP VOL 01 BLOODLINES FANTASTIC FOUR BY DAN SLOTT HC VOL 02 FANTASTIC FOUR HICKMAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01  NEW PTG HOWARD DUCK ZDARSKY QUINONES OMNIBUS HC MMW FANTASTIC FOUR HC[...]
Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, featuring the Mutant story "The Man in the Sky", Marvel, 1962.
A few years ago, a 1953 Mechanix Illustrated article about Mutants by Otto Binder and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger made the rounds online with claims that it was one of the inspirations for radiation-inspired heroes from the Hulk to X-Men.  And perhaps it was to some extent, but that article was likely in turn inspired[...]
Cover image for MAY210594 CHILDREN OF THE ATOM #5, by (W) Vita Ayala (A) Paco Medina (CA) R. B. Silva, in stores Wednesday, July 7, 2021 from MARVEL COMICS
Of course, the X-Men might be just a little busy after a certain Hellfire Gala, a very shocking murder, and an upcoming Trial of Magneto Oh, things are not looking good Check out the preview below. CHILDREN OF THE ATOM #5 MARVEL COMICS MAY210594 MAY210595 – CHILDREN OF ATOM #5 CHANG VAR – $3.99 (W) Vita Ayala (A) Paco Medina[...]
Ivan Fiorelli Finally Gets To Draw the X-Men in Marauders #23
But he loves his American comics and is a massive X-Men fan In April, he tweeted "After my month-long "X-Men Evolution characters" wave, I decided to recreate an iconic sequence from X-Men #2 (1991), by Chris Claremont and @JimLee, with my version of those characters I guess it's time to update my portfolio a little[...]
Cable, Krakoan Clones And Setting Up An Early Inferno? (Spoilers)
A little while ago in the Krakoan X-Men comic book Hellions, when Madelyne Pryor died, we discovered a new policy on the island of Krakoa As part of the new X-Men status, mutants who die can be resurrected courtesy of Cerebro and The Five But one of their rules is that they will not resurrect[...]
Hellfire Gala Timeline Adds X-Factor As It Comes To An End
This month saw Marvel Comics' Hellfire Gala – the X-Men crossover event that is a) just a big party, b) a major diplomatic event for Krakoa, and c) something really big is going down We have continued to take timestamps and tried to line the events up from this week and last into one Hellfire[...]
Wonder Woman 1984 Credit Scene Revealed (Spoilers)
Ending the Hellfire Gala storyline that has been running across all Marvel's X-Men comic book And that it would make a major change, and get all sorts of publicity Which naturally will need lots of bg spoiler imagery. Marvel Comics To Make News Headlines This Week (Spoilers) We also speculated as to what it may be, looking[...]
Cover image for X-FACTOR #10 GALA
Planet-Size X-Men #1 took a lot of people by surprise So did SWORD #6 Well, Bleeding Cool has got the word that this week's X-Factor #10  will have just as much of an impact as the terraforming of Mars, the imposition of a new monarchy on Earth, a new currency for the galaxy and the[...]
The Next Big X-Men Crossover Event Revealed Today, And Why (Spoilers)
We had a teaser from Mister Sinister's Red Diamond gossip sheet. Then, in X-Men #6 by Jonathan Hickman, Matteo Buffagni and Sunny Gho, we saw Mystique take a trip to Orchis, on behalf of the Krakoan X-Men Only for Mystique to step up her demands of the rest of the Quiet Council and of Krakoa. And Professor Charles[...]
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The fan-favorite X-Men character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #180 in a cameo appearance before getting a full appearance in The Incredible Hulk #181, which has made both of these historic issues quite valuable when graded highly Now, another important moment for any character after their first appearance is, of course, their first solo[...]
X-Men #1 CGC 9.6 (Marvel, 1963)
An X-Men #1 CGC 9.6 has just gone for a record $807,300 at this week's ComicConnect Event Auction #46 The amount bid by the winner of this auction is the highest price ever paid for an X-Men #1 in any grade The September 1963 cover-dated comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced concepts that in the coming[...]
X-Men #1 About To Set A New Record
In 2012, a CGC 9.8 slabbed copy of X-Men #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby published by Marvel Comics in 1963  sold for $492,937.500 In 2016, a CGC 9.6 copy sold for $350,000 Well, right now, a copy of X-Men #1 slabbed at CGC 9.6 is currently up for auction with ComicConnect as part[...]
Chris Claremont Came Up With Idea for Magneto to Terraform Mars
Last week, the collective creative teams behind Jonathan Hickman's X-Men reboot shook comic book readership to its foundations by revealing the big twist to the Hellfire Gala event: the mutants terraformed Mars, moved all of the returned original Krakoan mutants of Arakko there, and claimed Mars as the first mutant planet It was the centerpiece[...]
Hellfire Gala Timeline Adding Wolverine, SWORD, Way Of X, Pride, GOTG
This month saw Marvel Comics' Hellfire Gala – the X-Men crossover event that is a) just a big party, b) a major diplomatic event for Krakoa, and c) something really big is going down We have continued to take timestamps and tried to line the events up from this week and last into one Hellfire[...]
Hellfire Gala Timeline Adding Wolverine, SWORD, Way Of X, Pride, GOTG
It's Iceman time! Today's Marvel's Voices: Pride comic book has a lot of X-Men A lot of X-Men Even crossing over with the Hellfire Gala and the after-party on Arakko/Mars As well as running through Marvel's LGBTQ history which glosses over some of the publisher's more terrible moments But it does also mention Bobby Drake,[...]
What's Up With Wanda Maximoff, The Scarlet Witch, At Marvel? (Spoilers)
First an X-Men villain, then an Avenger, then a robot's wife and mother to illusionary kids, then an insane destroyer of reality (two or three times), then an eraser of all almost all mutant powers, and now a schoolteacher In the last few decades, the Scarlet Witch she's generally been portrayed as someone whose power[...]
X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation Replaces Way Of X in September
Well, in September 2021, that seems to come to the foreground as, instead of Way Of X, we have X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation What that revelation is, well, clearly they aren't telling right now… but it does include a party Yes, yes, they've just had a Hellfire Gala, but this is Krakoa, there is always[...]
Hellfire Gala Timeline Adding Wolverine, SWORD, Way Of X, Pride, GOTG
Today, the Marvel Universe sees the publication of SWORD #6, following on from last week's Planet-Size X-Men, and is another of what the X-Men line calls a "red book" – a title you pretty much have to read if you are following the Krakoan storyline more widely Previous examples in recent weeks were Marauders #20[...]
X-Men’s Storm Is A Goddess With Sideshow Collectibles Newest Statue
Sideshow Collectibles has revealed their newest Marvel Comics collectible with the debut of the all powerful X-Men, Storm Standing 23" tall, this Goddess stands on a blue vortex base as controls the weather with her silver bodysuit costume Storm's 90s costume is easily one of her most iconic, and Sideshow brings thing beloved costume design[...]
Batman/Fortnite Beats Planet-Size X-Men, Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
Sorry for the delay and if any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point #5 with its download codes did the impossible, beating out both Marvel's Planet-Size X-Men and Venom #200, and all of them beating Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #3 and[...]
Cover image for WAY OF X #3 GALA
And who can blame him? A Marvel crossover event stretching the events of a single night into twelve separate issues in order to bilk as much money as possible out of gullible X-Men fans? That kind of cash grab would make anyone feel a little queasy Luckily, Dr Nemesis has the cure, and even though[...]
Cover image for X-MEN LEGENDS #4
X-Men Legends #4 brings us back to a simpler time for mutants A time before we had to worry about things like Wolverine, Cyclops, and Jean Grey being involved in a three-way romantic and sexual relationship Instead, all we have to do is reckon with the fact that Cyclops married an exact clone of his[...]