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100 Things X-Men Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Brian Cronin Release Date: 2018 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN: 978-1-62937-566-3 -
Comic Summary: Whether you've read the earliest X-Men comics from the silver age or never miss a big screen release, these are the 100 things all X-Men fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Comic Book Resources' Brian Cronin has collected every essential piece of mutants knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom!

Comics Creators on X-Men - Comics Creators on X-Men
Importance Rating: 2.5 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Tom Defalco Release Date: May 2006 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: Released by Titan Books, ISBN 1845761731. -
Comic Summary: In the near future, humanity will be faced by a grave challenge: mutation. Gifted with an array of incredible powers, the X-Men have fought to break down the walls between humans and mutants in over fifty years of comics — and three hit movies. Comics Creators on X-Men is the definitive look at the mighty mutants in comics, including interviews with original co-creator Stan Lee, fan-favourite Chris Claremont, superstar artists Chris Bachalo and Alan Davis, and recent writer Grant Morrison. Packed with exclusive sketches, script pages, rare and classic covers, and essential background information on the X-Men’s labyrinthine history and vast cast of characters, this is a book no X-fan can do without!

Five Decades of the X-Men - -
Importance Rating: 1.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Stan Lee Writer(s): Various Release Date: 2002 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Edition Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: Original release was an oversized softcover (size of a trade paperback), then released later as a mass market paperback book. ISBN-13 :978-0743435000 -
Comic Summary: Spanning five decades, this collection of short fiction chronicles the exploits and adventures of the X-Men, humankind's mutant champions against the forces of evil and chaos, in stories by Madeleine E. Robins, Sholly Fisch, Thomas Deja, and other authors, enhanced by illustrations by leading science fiction and graphic artists. Original.

Mutant Cinema - X-Men Trilogy From Comics to Screen
Importance Rating: 1.5 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Thomas J Mclean, Kevin Colden Release Date: November 2011 Variant Covers: Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-1466353398 -
Comic Summary: VARIETY writer Thomas J. McLean offers the definitive study of the original X-Men movie trilogy. Using both the source material and interviews conducted solely for this book, he traces each film's development process, adaptation of the X-Men comics mythos, and reception. He also examines previous attempts to adapt the X-Men for the screen, omitted scenes, the films' novelizations and prequel comics, and the trilogy's lasting legacy. From Sequart Research & Literacy Organization.

Rogue Untouched: A Marvel Heroine Novel - -
Importance Rating: 1.5 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Alisa Kwitney Release Date: 2021 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: ISBN-13 978-1839080562 -
Comic Summary: Young Rogue’s life is a mess: she lives alone in an abandoned cabin, works a terrible diner job and hides from everyone. The powers she has started to develop are terrifying her. When your first kiss almost kills the guy, it’s hard to trust anyone – even yourself. Then two people arrive in town who could change her life, and she finally gets a choice: follow a mysterious billionaire who says she’s scouting for gifted interns, or the handsome card shark with eerie red eyes. Except they’re not the only ones watching her… Rogue will have to trust in herself and accept the powers she’s trying to suppress to decide her own fate – before someone else does.

Ultimate X-Men, The - -
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Various Release Date: 1996 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: ISBN 1-57297-217-3 -
Comic Summary: An action-packed new anthology of more than a dozen original tales featuring the X-Men follows the mutant super-heroes as they take on some of their greatest archvillains while coping with the day-to-day problems of being a mutant.

X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Book 1 - Lost and Found
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Greg Cox Release Date: 1999 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Omnibus Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0425169735 -
Comic Summary: When Rogue of the X-Men and the Scarlet Witch of the Avengers vanish under bizarre circumstances, the two teams of superheroes must join forces to uncover the reason behind the abductions and stop a diabolical plot before it is too late.

X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Book 2 - Search and Rescue
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Greg Cox Release Date: 1999 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Omnibus Fun Facts: ISBN13: 9781662041525 -
Comic Summary: With the help of the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers and the X-men set out to find the Leader, the gamma-powered evil genius who abducted two of their teammates--but the Leader has the power of the Gamma Sentinels behind him.

X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Book 3 - Friend or Foe?
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Greg Cox Release Date: 1999 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Omnibus Fun Facts: ISBN13: 9780425170380 -
Comic Summary: The X-Men face their greatest challenge when a super-genius brainwashes Rogue, Wolverine, and the Scarlet Witch, luring them to his evil cause.

X-Men and the Avengers: Gamma Quest Omnibus - Gamma Quest Trilogy
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Greg Cox Release Date: 2020 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: Combines all of three books of the Gamma Quest Trilogy. ISBN 9781789093339 -
Comic Summary: The X-Men--mutant protectors of a world that fears and hates them. The Avengers--Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the greatest super-team ever assembled. When the Scarlet Witch of the Avengers and Rogue of the X-Men both disappear under mysterious circumstances, each team's search leads them to more questions than answers. Desperate to recover their missing teammates, they must join forces to uncover the truth. But their efforts will bring them up against a foe with the deadliest power of all: to make them turn on each other!

X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy: Book 1 - Doctor Doom/X-Men
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steven A. Roman, Stan Timmons Release Date: 2000 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0743434836 -
Comic Summary: After returning from another dimension, the X-Men learn that the Earth has been conquered by Doctor Doom.

X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy: Book 2 - Magneto/X-Men
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steven A. Roman, Stan Timmons Release Date: 2002 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0743400237 -
Comic Summary: The X-Men are forced into an uneasy alliance with their old foe, Dr. Doom, as they and their new ally, Betsy Braddock, a ninja-trained telekinetic known as Psylocke, race against time to retrieve the Cosmic Cube, a powerful weapon, from their most diabolical enemy, Magneto. Original.

X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy: Book 3 - Red Skull/X-Men
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steven A. Roman, Stan Timmons Release Date: 2003 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0743452809 -
Comic Summary: First, it was Doctor Doom. Then, Magneto. Two men with a common dream: to become absolute master of the Earth. Through the use of the Cosmic Cube-a device whose reality-bending powers allow its possessor to create their own perfect world-they were each able to bring their dreams to life, if only for a short time. Fortunately, the X-Men were able to shatter those dreams before they destroyed the planet. But now the Cube has fallen into the hands of the infamous Red Skull, and unlike his villainous predecessors, the Skull is in complete control of the Chaos energies generated by the Cube! With time running out, the X-Men must make one final, desperate attempt to destroy this "Chaos Engine" and restore Order to the cosmos before their entire reality is wiped from existence by an all-powerful alien race!

X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy: Omnibus - Doctor Doom/Magneto/Red Skull/X-Men
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steven A. Roman, Stan Timmons Release Date: 2003 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: Released as a Hardback book and as a mass market paperback. Combines all three books of the Chaos Engine Trilogy. ISBN-13: 978-0743497749 -
Comic Summary: First, it was Doctor Doom. Then, Magneto. Two men with a common dream: to become absolute master of the Earth. Through the use of the Cosmic Cube-a device whose reality-bending powers allow its possessor to create their own perfect world-they were each able to bring their dreams to life, if only for a short time. Fortunately, the X-Men were able to shatter those dreams before they destroyed the planet. But now the Cube has fallen into the hands of the infamous Red Skull, and unlike his villainous predecessors, the Skull is in complete control of the Chaos energies generated by the Cube! With time running out, the X-Men must make one final, desperate attempt to destroy this "Chaos Engine" and restore Order to the cosmos before their entire reality is wiped from existence by an all-powerful alien race!

X-Men: Dark Mirror - -
Importance Rating: 3.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Marjorie M Liu Release Date: 2006 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-1416510635 -
Comic Summary: Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers- and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler- each of their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers as well. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutant-kind.

X-Men: Empire's End - -
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Diane Duane Release Date: 1997/1998 Variant Covers: A. Hardback Edition Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: Released in Hardcover and Mass Market Paperback. This was the first X-Men hardcover novel released, publishing 22500 copies in the first printing. ISBN-13: 978-0399143342 -
Comic Summary: Professor X, the X-Men's founder and mentor, and Shi'ar Empress Lilandra have been forced to love each other from afar - he has to remain on Earth to lead the X-Men, and she must stay with the Shi'ar to run the empire. Now, Lilandra must turn to the X-Men for help against a threat to her domain - and possibly the Earth as well. Shi'ar scientists have learned of a creature that devours galaxies and is heading toward Shi'ar space. Beset by a panicking people and by several assassination attempts, Lilandra calls upon the X-Men for their assistance, for the galaxy-eater will target Earth next - but the price for stopping the galaxy-eater may be higher than the X-Men expect. They must use a device that increases their powers a thousandfold to drive the creature back, a process that could destroy them - or make them insane with power!

X-Men: Jewels of Cyttorak, The - -
Importance Rating: 5.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Dean Wesley Smith Writer(s): Various Release Date: 1997 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-1572973299 -
Comic Summary: When an emerald from the same dimension as the ruby of Cyttorak is discovered, it could provide the one weapon that can stop the Juggernaut, but the X-Men must vie with the Juggernaut and a ruthless billionaire named Service for control of the emerald.

X-Men: The Last Stand Noveliztion - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Chris Claremont Release Date: 2006 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0345492111 -
Comic Summary: The world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants, whose superhuman powers separate them–for better, for worse, forever–from ordinary mortals. Now, for the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their godlike abilities, though their powers may isolate and alienate them, or surrender them and become human. The mutant antibody is called a cure, but its invention may trigger a struggle that destroys every living soul on Earth. As Magneto declares all-out war against humanity and its dreaded cure, the U.S. president mobilizes the military. But it is Charles Xavier and the X-Men who truly must brace for the ultimate battle, for they alone are powerful enough to determine the outcome. Lessons of the past are useless in the coming life-and-death conflict, as new players–mutants possessing unprecedented, unearthly skills– take center stage. With so many joining forces with Magneto’s evil Brotherhood, the X-Men will face their ultimate test against an enemy whose forces far outnumber their own. Now, as the world trembles, the Phoenix slowly rises.

X-Men: Legacy Quest, The: Book 1 - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steve Lyons Release Date: 074344468X Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. -
Comic Summary: Hank McCoy -- the X-Men's Beast -- made himself a guinea pig in a desperate attempt to find a cure for the deadly Legacy Virus. His gamble succeeded. Now his blood is a living serum that can save countless lives. Unfortunately, the Beast is also a prisoner of Selene, the dread Black Queen of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club and she is literally bleeding him dry in order to further her own mad quest for power and wealth. The X-Men, and their uneasy ally, Sebastian Shaw, the mutant Black King of the Hong Kong branch of the Hellfire Club, are locked in a race against time to defeat Selene and free the Beast. But to their shock, they have discovered that Selene has found a way to turn time itself into a weapon against them. Meanwhile, Sebastian Shaw and the mysterious menace known as Mutant X, pursue a different agenda -- one that if it succeeds, will place the Legacy Virus serum in the hands of the most dangerous mutant in the world!

X-Men: Legacy Quest, The: Book 2 - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steve Lyons Release Date: 0743452437 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. -
Comic Summary: The race is on for a cure for the deadly "Legacy Virus" threatening mutants across the globe, but one mutant will use time travel as a means to prevent others from gaining access to the serum, in the second novel in The Legacy Quest trilogy.

X-Men: Legacy Quest, The: Book 3 - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steve Lyons Release Date: 0743452666 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Two different sized Paperbacks have been released of this novel, a larger format paperback and a standard mass market paperback. -
Comic Summary: Magneto -- the X-Men's arch enemy and mankind's greatest foe --has dramatically raised the stakes in the life and death struggle to find a cure for the mutant-killing Legacy Virus. Magneto has created a vast arsenal of Legacy Virus bombs that he's having his cohorts plant around the world. When he detonates the bombs, all of humanity will be quickly infected and soon die unless they receive the cure -- a cure that only he has! The X-Men must stop Magneto before he can activate his insane plan. But when it comes to Magneto, theacknowledged legitimate ruler of the island nation Genosha, stopping him will not only be difficult...it may be impossible! Meanwhile, Sebastian Shaw, the Black King of the Hellfire Club and anembittered, now cast-aside pawn in Magneto's mad scheme, isforming a terrible plan of revenge.

X-Men: Legacy Quest, The Omnibus - -
Importance Rating: 2.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Writer(s): Steve Lyons Release Date: 0743452666 Variant Covers: A. Mass Market Paperback Trade Prints: Fun Facts: Combines all of three books of the Legacy Quest Trilogy. Was released as a Hardcover and as a Mass Market Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0739437353 -
Comic Summary: An omnibus edition featuring the three volumes in the Legacy Quest trilogy pits the X-Men against a deadly Legacy virus that has been affecting mutants around the globe, finds them caught in the middle of a power struggle between Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club and Selene the Black Queen, and forces them into a showdown with their ultimate enemy, Magneto

X-Men Legends - -
Importance Rating: 5.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Various Release Date: 2000 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0425170823 -
Comic Summary: Over a dozen original tales that span the career of the uncanny X-Men "RM," from the team's early days as teen heroes to the present -- spotlighting Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, and all your favorite mutants.

X-Men: Mutant Empire: Book 1 - Siege
Importance Rating: 7.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Christopher Golden Writer(s): Christopher Golden Release Date: 1996 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men: Mutant Empire Ominbus Fun Facts: ISBN-13 :978-1789093322 -
Comic Summary: The X-Men's oldest and deadliest enemy, Magneto, has taken over the Sentinels, powerful mutant-hunting robots, and the X-Men must fight the Acolytes, Magneto's mutant followers, and the United States government, which holds the X-Men responsible for the takeover.

X-Men: Mutant Empire: Book 2 - Sanctuary
Importance Rating: 7.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Christopher Golden Writer(s): Christopher Golden Release Date: 1996 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men: Mutant Empire Ominbus Fun Facts: ISBN13: 9781572971806 -
Comic Summary: When Magneto, their deadliest foe, takes over Manhattan and declares it a haven for mutants, the X-Men, under the direction of Professor Charles Xavier, realize that Magneto has achieved his first step in a plot for world domination

X-Men: Mutant Empire: Book 3 - Salvation
Importance Rating: 7.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Christopher Golden Writer(s): Christopher Golden Release Date: 1997 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: X-Men: Mutant Empire Ominbus Fun Facts: ISBN13: 9781572972476 -
Comic Summary: Manhattan is in the hands of the evil Magneto and his Acolytes as he executes the first step in creating the Mutant Empire. Half the X-Men have been captured, and Magneto's law is enforced by an ever-growing army of mutants and the powerful robotic Sentinels. The remaining X-Men must stop Magneto by turning the reprogrammed Sentinels against him to defeat the man himself. To do that, they must join forces with the US government - who view the X-Men as being as much of a menace as Magneto - and with one of their oldest foes, the Juggernaut!

X-Men: Mutant Empire Ominbus - -
Importance Rating: 7.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Christopher Golden Writer(s): Christopher Golden Release Date: 2019 Variant Covers: A. Paperback release. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: Also available as an Audio Book. Combines all of three books of the Mutant Empire Trilogy. Was released as a Hardback book and in Paperback format. -
Comic Summary: Facing the loss of half their comrades with Magneto's latest successes in his creation of the Mutant Empire, the remaining X-Men are forced to team up with the U.S. government in an effort to reprogram the Sentinels.

X-Men: Prisioner X - -
Importance Rating: 5.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Ann Nocenti Release Date: 1998 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0425164938 -
Comic Summary: On a mission to rescue their former teammate, Longshot, from an orbital prison called UltraMax, the X-men find themselves locked in a deadly contest with the prison's mastermind, an insane villain from another dimension.

X-Men: Smoke and Mirrors - -
Importance Rating: out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Eluki Bes Shahar Release Date: 1997 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-1572972919 -
Comic Summary: When research uncovers a way to reverse the genetic mutation responsible for mutant powers, the government tries to use the procedure to eliminate the X-Men, who soon discover that the procedure's true source is their enemy, Sinister.

X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow Book 1 - The Past
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Tom Defalco, Jason Henderson Release Date: 1998 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0425164525 -
Comic Summary: Spider-Man joins forces with the X-Men team when a mysterious phtograph leads to a shocking discovery at the Time Displacement Core, and the heroes must make a perilous journey into the past to prevent the destruction of the present.

X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow Book 2 - The Present
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Tom Defalco, Adam Troy Castro Release Date: 1998 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN 13: 9780425164150 -
Comic Summary: In order to save Spider-Man and Bishop from cast into the infinite future and lost forever in the timestream, the X-Men must wrest the time arrows from Kang's mercenaries, in an illustrated comic-book fantasy adventure.

X-Men and Spiderman: Time's Arrow Book 3 - The Future
Importance Rating: 4.0 out of 10
Penciler(s): Various Writer(s): Tom Defalco, Eluki Bes Shahar Release Date: 1998 Variant Covers: None. Trade Prints: None. Fun Facts: ISBN-13: 978-0425165003 -
Comic Summary: The sequel to The Present and the conclusion of the Time's Arrow trilogy narrates the struggle of the X-Men and Spider-Man to stop the time-traveling madman, Kang the Conqueror, from destroying the "multiverse."

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