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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published December 1999
Cover Price $3.50
Pages 52
Editing Jason Liebig
Notes Gatefold front and back covers (ads)

Cover Details - "Brand New Adventures With Marvel's Premiere Mutant Team!"

Characters Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X
Genre Superhero
Pencils John Byrne
Inks John Byrne
Colors Chris Dickey
Letters John Byrne
Notes Gatefold front and back covers (ads)

6 page X-Men story "Epilogue:"

Characters Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X; Havok; Lorna Dane; Hulk
Synopsis A recounting of the closing events of X-Men (1963) #66.
Genre Superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Tom Palmer
Colors Greg Wright
Letters John Byrne

11 page X-Men story "Prologue:"

Characters Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X; Havok; Lorna Dane; In flashback -- Grotesk; Magneto; Mesmero; Living Monolith; Sentinels; Larry Trask; Sauron; Ka-Zar; Lorelei; Sunfire; Z'Nox (alien race)
Synopsis Iceman decides to leave the team; Professor X scans his students to see events that occurred during his "death", and then sends them to the Savage Land to investigate the apparent death of Magneto.
Genre Superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Tom Palmer
Colors Greg Wright
Letters John Byrne
Notes References are made to the preview story in X-Men (1991) #94.

21 page X-Men story "Once More the Savage Land"

Characters Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X; Havok; Lorna Dane; Magneto; Amphibius; Savage Land natives
Synopsis The team heads to the Savage Land to search for Magneto's corpse, crash land due to turbulence, and are taken captive by Savage Land natives. They are informed that Marvel Girl has passed over to the land of the dead; Havok and Iceman fight over Lorna; Magneto is seen in ghostly form
Genre Superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Tom Palmer
Colors Greg Wright
Letters John Byrne

1 page text article "X-Men: The Hidden Years"

Synopsis A letter by John Byrne to the reader.
Script John Byrne
Letters typeset