For 50 years, Len Wein and Dave Cockrum’s Giant-Size X-Men #1 has stood as one of the most important moments in Marvel Comics history, reshaping the X-Men forever. Now, Marvel celebrates its milestone anniversary with an all-new, five-part event spanning the greatest eras of mutantkind!
From the emergence of Krakoa in Giant-Size X-Men #1 to Age of Apocalypse, House of M and The Dark Phoenix Saga, history has shaped – and shattered – the X-Men time and again. But what if those moments held deeper secrets? What if the past wasn’t set in stone? Acclaimed X-Scribes Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing join forces with legendary X-Men artist Adam Kubert, superstar artist Rod Reis and more on this epic journey across the X-Men’s most pivotal stories.
The event sees Ms. Marvel pulled into the distant past by an unstable and unleashed Legion! Locked in a battle through time against the Omega-Level mutant, Kamala is only one standing in the way of X-Men history being warped forever! Following GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 where Kamala joins the legendary All-New, All-Different X-Men on their critical rescue mission to Krakoa, Kamala goes from the frying pan into the Phoenix fire in GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1. As the story we know unfolds before her eyes, the new mutant must team up with Jean Grey in her darkest hour and master her dangerous new mutant power in this cosmic, emotional saga.
"The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the enduring high water marks not just for X-Men comics, but super hero stories as a whole,” Lanzing and Kelly shared. “Claremont and Byrne changed the game with this story - and 45 years later, it's still the kind of story you can return to again and again for renewed depth and brilliance. But what's most exciting is digging into Jean Grey's mindset during one of her strangest, darkest hours - as she finds a new friend in Kamala Khan. Jean Grey's place among her fellow X-Men will get a whole new level of character and meaning from the wild, cosmic events of GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1."
In addition, each GIANT-SIZE one-shot will feature a Revelations Back-Up Story that uncovers hidden lore behind each respective story and sets up exciting present-day developments for the near future. In GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1, writer Steve Foxe and artist Lucas Werneck reveal the hidden secret that binds Scott Summer and Jean Grey together.
Check out Adam Kubert’s main cover, a variant cover by interior artist Rod Reis, and a senses-shattering preview for GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1. Stay tuned for more information about the GIANT-SIZE X-MEN ANNIVERSARY EVENT, including announcements for GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE, GIANT-SIZE HOUSE OF M, and the event’s finale issue, GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #2. Experience a special prelude story by picking up FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2025: FANTASTIC FOUR/GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 at your local comic shop on May 3.
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art and Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Revelations Story by AL EWING & SARA PICHELLI
On Sale 5/28
GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by ROD REIS
Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Variant Cover by ROD REIS
Revelations Story by STEVE FOXE & LUCAS WERNECK
On Sale 6/11
GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1
On Sale June 2025
GIANT-SIZE HOUSE OF M #1
On Sale July 2025
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #2
On Sale July 2025
On 4/12/2025 at 4:13 AM, Bandoogiemanz said:This is what happens when they're bereft of fresh or innovative ideas.
Serialized fiction is REALLY hard to write, because any given premise or stock of character personality types eventually runs out of steam.It was cited about 50 years ago, that in comics, there's only about 7 or 8 plot types.Stories that repeat over and over with just some mix and match variations, and when yer done those......you borrow from the other guy's comics.A couple of classic tropes: the hero who falls ( or fails) upon hard times and gives up the costume and heroics to go off and soul-search themselves. Who has not done that yet in a run of stories?Another popular one with group books is a member of the group starts to succumb to some condition or situation and becomes a great threat to the group ( or a larger community) and has to be defeated by said group.This is why a lot of long-running comics creators (still) talk about a 5-year audience cycle--that a typical reader only sticks with a book for 5 years, because the stories start to repeat themes and said reader(s) lose interest ( in comic all together) and go off to other things. And when a creator decides to really try and innovate, the comic starts getting really weird and off-the-wall and the things that made it appealing in the first place often take a hit.It's a tough craft to work in,
On 3/12/2025 at 5:09 PM, TheArrow said:I agree, I never liked the concept of " a story is never completed, only abandoned". Mucking around again and again with a set tale is not only wishy-washy, it diminishes both the original story AND its revision.Start at your beginning, say what you are going to say, get to the end, then stop. pulling repeated "Columbo's" by going ",,,,,oh, and ONE MORE THING....." is exhausting. Tell a completely different story instead of something that works before. Stop beating the same horse to death.
This is what happens when they're bereft of fresh or innovative ideas.
I was right! They ARE ending it with "Giant-Size House of M"!
On 3/12/2025 at 10:17 PM, GarimusPrime said:My point is that "Children's Crusade" undid what "House of M" did. Wanda began giving mutants their powers back. "X-Men: Second Coming" also did this with Hope Summers. "Trial of Magneto" simply served to remove her culpability for "House of M", in a 'legal' sense. Nothing actually got resolved, in a physical sense.
She only gave one mutant their powers back in Children Crusade (Rictor) before Doom stole the Lifeforce from her and she couldn't do it anymore. She did help Hope in AvsX, but like I said it wasn't until TOM that she was actually allowed to undo HOM
On 3/12/2025 at 5:34 PM, leokearon said:Wanda wasn't absolved of No More Mutants until Trial of Magneto in 2021, where she was finally allowed to undo it and more. Children's Crusade just had a nonsensical way of trying to explain Disassembled and still failed at that, since it didn't address the main reason for it .
My point is that "Children's Crusade" undid what "House of M" did. Wanda began giving mutants their powers back. "X-Men: Second Coming" also did this with Hope Summers. "Trial of Magneto" simply served to remove her culpability for "House of M", in a 'legal' sense. Nothing actually got resolved, in a physical sense.
On 3/12/2025 at 9:00 PM, GarimusPrime said:They basically undid "No More Mutants" in "Avengers: The Children's Crusade", like fifteen years ago. Plus, look at the recently ended Krakoan Age. Mutants, as a species, have been flourishing.
Wanda wasn't absolved of No More Mutants until Trial of Magneto in 2021, where she was finally allowed to undo it and more. Children's Crusade just had a nonsensical way of trying to explain Disassembled and still failed at that, since it didn't address the main reason for it .
On 2/19/2025 at 11:37 AM, RobertD said:Generally, I prefer it when writers respect what has come before. It's one thing to update something due to the ol' sliding timescale, or even undoing really poorly made editorial choices (Avenging Angel Punisher, for example), but taking perfectly fine past stories and then cramming them with senseless "but... what if _____ where there instead?" seems both hollow and honestly a little disrespectful to the material. But some people like continuity and some people like to tread all over it, I happen to be the former.
I agree, I never liked the concept of " a story is never completed, only abandoned". Mucking around again and again with a set tale is not only wishy-washy, it diminishes both the original story AND its revision.Start at your beginning, say what you are going to say, get to the end, then stop. pulling repeated "Columbo's" by going ",,,,,oh, and ONE MORE THING....." is exhausting. Tell a completely different story instead of something that works before. Stop beating the same horse to death.
On 3/12/2025 at 1:25 PM, leokearon said:Better yet, just get rid of "No More Mutants"
They basically undid "No More Mutants" in "Avengers: The Children's Crusade", like fifteen years ago. Plus, look at the recently ended Krakoan Age. Mutants, as a species, have been flourishing.
On 3/12/2025 at 8:59 AM, GarimusPrime said:Can they do a "Giant-Size House of M", where Wanda says "No more Kamala Khan", and she just disappears, forever? I'd buy 50 copies of that one.
Better yet, just get rid of "No More Mutants"
On 3/12/2025 at 1:59 AM, GarimusPrime said:Can they do a "Giant-Size House of M", where Wanda says "No more Kamala Khan", and she just disappears, forever? I'd buy 50 copies of that one.
Just have Kamala Khan present when Wanda says "No more mutants" and have her revert back to being an Inhuman.
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