Chad Burdette
This year marks the 30th anniversary of AGE OF APOCALYPSE, the milestone X-Men event that took the ‘90s by storm and influenced the medium forever, including the X-Men’s upcoming Age of Revelation event and the highly anticipated sequel series by Jeph Loeb and Simone Di Meo.X-Men of Apocalypse, which kicks off next month.
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In 1995, Marvel shocked the comics-reading world, canceling all its blockbuster X-titles and replacing them with new series in the transformed reality of the Age of Apocalypse! These tales, by some of the era’s leading creators, introduced fans to radically new versions of the heroes they loved — fighting for survival in a nightmarish dystopia where Charles Xavier is long dead in X-Men: Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1
Age Of Revelation / X-Titles Also Out This Week
- Exclusive Preview: X YEARS LATER: Storm And Gambit Find Themselves On The Dirt Road To Hell And Carnage in Rogue Storm #2
- X YEARS LATER: Sinister’s Six Race To Find The Cure That Could Save Them in Sinister’s Six #2
- X YEARS LATER, Emma Frost Has Come Looking For Tony Stark in Iron Frost #2
- Spider-Man & Wolverine #7
Sergio Fernández Dávila Variant Cover:
X-Men: Tales from the Age of Apocalypse #1
Marvel Comics commemorates the milestone with this one-shot collecting the first issues of four of the original event’s key series: ASTONISHING X-MEN #1, FACTOR X #1, WEAPON X #1, and AMAZING X-MEN #1.
Professor X was killed twenty years in the past during a freak time-travel accident, and now the Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist — ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive!
In the long shadow of En Sabah Nur, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend: Magneto! They’re amazing, they’re astonishing — but who are the X-Men?!
Plus: What has become of iconic mutants Cyclops, Havok and Wolverine in this war-torn world?
Creative Team
- Writers: Fabian Nicieza, John Francis Moore, Larry Hama, and Scott Lobdell
- Artists:
- Inker: Dan Green
- Colorists: Digital Chameleon
- Letterer: Richard Starkings &Comicraft
- Standard Cover Artist(s): Paco Medina & Jesus Aburtov
- Variant Cover Artist(s): Cory Smith; Aaron Kuder; Ricky Yagawa; Mark Bagley; Stanley “Artgerm” Lau
- Format: Oneshot
- Page Count/Cover Price: 104 pages/$9.99
Relive Key Moments From The Age Of Apocalypse As The 30th Anniversary Continues in X-MEN: TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 on shelves and digital platforms November 12, 2025, from Marvel Comics
