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. Starting in May, Marvel celebrates its milestone anniversary with an all-new event revisiting key X-Men storylines in a series of GIANT-SIZE X-MEN one-shots, including GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE which features a Revelations Backup Story by Eisner Award-winning writer Jeph Loeb, an architect behind the original Age of Apocalypse, and superstar artist Simone Di Meo!
Across the five anniversary one-shots, the Revelations Backup Stories will reveal hidden lore behind each respective story and setsup exciting present-day developments coming in the near future. In GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1, Loeb returns to the iconic dystopian future he helped create! Age of Apocalypse shook the X-Men to its core in the ‘90s, and now, one of the era’s most prolific creators is back to reignite the groundbreaking storyline just in time for its own major milestone anniversary!
On his grand return to the World of X, Loeb said, “In 1995, I was extremely lucky to be part of one of the biggest stories to hit the X-Men with Age of Apocalypse, writing both Astonishing X-Men and X-Man. Now, thirty years later, join me and the superstar artist of tomorrow—Simone Di Meo—as we return to this doomed timeline with some of the greatest X-Men characters ever!”
What if these critical moments held deeper secrets? What if the past wasn’t set in stone? Experience Giant-Size X-Men #1, The Dark Phoenix Saga, Age of Apocalypse, and more pivotal X-sagas from an all-new, all-different perspective across five time-bending one-shots by acclaimed X-Scribes Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and celebrated artists Adam Kubert, Rod Reis, C.F. Villa and more!
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 Khan is only one standing in the way of X-Men history being warped forever! Following GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 and GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX #1, Kamala finds herself stuck in the darkest future of all in GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1! Worse yet: It’s only hours from its inevitable end; if Kamala can’t find what’s left of the X-Men, she’ll burn in nuclear hellfire. Former enemies must learn to rely on one another as they journey through a land of charred bones and broken promises...but can Legion truly be trusted? And how far will Rogue go to teach Kamala the true meaning of mutant identity? Welcome back to the Age of Apocalypse – where no one survives the experience!
Check out GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE’s main cover by Adam Kubert along with a variant cover by Simone Di Meo and stay tuned for more information about the GIANT-SIZE X-MEN ANNIVERSARY EVENT, including announcements for GIANT-SIZE HOUSE OF M and GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #2.
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 – 75960621133300111
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
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by C.F. VILLA
Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Variant Cover by SIMONE DI MEO
Revelations Story by JEPH LOEB & SIMONE DI MEO
On Sale 6/25
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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