
To distinguish itself from the other contemporary X-Men titles, this third volume of X-Men was conceived as a title that would focus on the mutants' role in the wider Marvel Universe and ".firmly integrate the X-Men in the Marvel Universe." As a result, the initial story arcs featured a guest appearance from characters from the Marvel Universe ranging from Spider-Man to Blade.įrom issues #30 to 37 the title took a change in direction, focusing on Storm leading a security team of X-Men and dropping the 'team-up' element that was previously a part of the book.

The 2010 X-Men series was the third ongoing series to launch with the title following the first series (vol. As the fifth volume of the title, the series ran for 21 issues, before it was subsequently relaunched as volume 6 - written by Gerry Duggan - in July 2021. In July 2019, Marvel announced at the San Diego Comic-Con that X-Men would be relaunched as the flagship title again in October 2019 following Jonathan Hickman's House of X and Powers of X, with Hickman writing and art by Leinil Francis Yu. As part of Marvel NOW!, the title was relaunched as a new series (volume 4) written by Brian Wood and featuring an all-female team. Volume 3 began publication in September 2010 and, for most of its run featuring team-ups between the X-Men and other Marvel characters, ended at issue #41 in February 2013. The title then was briefly reverted to its original name but then subsequently renamed X-Men: Legacy.

This series took the simpler, earlier name X-Men, though from 2001 until 2004 it became the flagship title of the X-Men franchise and was published as New X-Men. In 1991 a second companion series debuted, marking the first time that more than one X-Men series would be published. X-Men is a comic book ongoing series featuring the titular namesake team of superheroes, published in various incarnations by Marvel Comics, beginning in 1963.ĭuring its revival under writer Chris Claremont, the first series was eventually renamed The Uncanny X-Men with issue #114 (October 1978).
