{"id":32536,"date":"2025-04-01T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=32536"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:19:38","slug":"x-men-epic-collection-volume-5-second-genesis-1975-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/04\/01\/x-men-epic-collection-volume-5-second-genesis-1975-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Epic Collection volume 5: Second Genesis (1975-1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Len Wein<\/strong>, Chris Claremont<\/strong>, Bill Mantlo<\/strong>, Bonnie Wilford<\/strong>, Dave Cockrum<\/strong>, Bob Brown<\/strong>, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, John Byrne<\/strong>, Sal Buscema<\/strong>, Bob McLeod<\/strong>, Sam Grainger<\/strong>, Frank Chiaramonte<\/strong>, Bob Layton<\/strong>, Tom Sutton<\/strong>, Dan Green<\/strong>, Terry Austin<\/strong>, Mike Esposito<\/strong>, Frank Giacoia<\/strong>, Ricardo Villamonte<\/strong> & various (MARVEL)
\nISBN: 978-1-3029-0390-9 TPB\/Digital edition<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the autumn of 1963 The X-Men<\/strong> #1 introduced Scott<\/em> (Cyclops<\/strong>) Summers<\/em>, Bobby<\/em> (Iceman<\/strong>) Drake<\/em>, Warren<\/em> (Angel<\/strong>) Worthington<\/em>, Hank<\/em> (The<\/strong> Beast<\/strong>) McCoy<\/em> and Jean<\/em> (Marvel Girl<\/strong>) Grey<\/em>: very special students of Professor Charles Xavier<\/em>. The teacher was a wheelchair-bound telepath dedicated to brokering peace and integration between the masses of humanity and the emergent off-shoot race of mutants dubbed Homo Superior; considered by many who knew him as a living saint.<\/p>\n

After almost eight years of eccentrically spectacular adventures the mutant misfits virtually disappeared at the beginning of 1970 during another periodic downturn in superhero comics sales. Just like in the closing years of the 1940s, mystery men faded away as supernatural mysteries and traditional genre themes once more dominated the world\u2019s entertainment fields. Although their title returned at the end of the year as a cheap reprint vehicle, the missing mutants were reduced to guest-stars and bit players throughout the ongoing Marvel universe, whilst the bludgeoning Beast was opportunistically transformed into a scary monster to cash in on the horror boom.<\/p>\n

Then, with sales of the spooky stuff subsequently waning in 1975, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Roy Thomas green-lit a bold one-shot as part of the company\u2019s line of Giant-Size<\/strong> specials and history was made on April 1st<\/sup> when something very special hits newsstands…<\/p>\n

This fabulous mass-market collection is ideal for newcomers and neophytes, celebrating the revival and unstoppable march to market dominance through the exuberant and pivotal early stories: specifically, Giant Size X-Men<\/strong> #1, issues #94-110 of the \u201cAll-New, All-Different\u201d X-Men<\/strong>, plus guest appearances in Iron Fist<\/strong> #14-15, Marvel Team Up<\/strong> #53, 69-70 and Marvel Team Up Annual<\/strong> #1, spanning cover-dates May 1975 to June 1978.<\/p>\n

Tracing the reinvigorated merry mutants from young, fresh and delightfully under-exposed innovations to the beginnings of their unstoppable ascendancy to ultimate comic book icons, in their own title and via an increasingly broad clutch of guest shots, the epic voyage begins without pause or preamble, in a classic mystery monster mash from Giant Size X-Men<\/strong> #1. Here, Len Wein & Dave Cockrum – the latter a red-hot property following his stint reviving DC\u2019s equally eclectic fan-fave superteam The Legion of Super-Heroes<\/strong> – detailed in \u2018Second Genesis!\u2019<\/em> how the original squad (all but new Avengers<\/strong> recruit The Beast) had been lost in action. With no other choice Xavier is forced to scour Earth and the entire Marvel Universe for replacements\u2026<\/p>\n

To old foes-turned-friends Banshee<\/strong> and Sunfire <\/strong>is added a one-shot Hulk<\/strong> adversary the Wolverine<\/strong>, but the bulk of time and attention is lavished upon original additions Kurt Wagner<\/em>, a demonic-seeming German teleporter codenamed Nightcrawler<\/strong>; African weather \u201cgoddess\u201d Ororo Monroe<\/em> \u2013 AKA Storm<\/strong>, Russian farm-boy Peter Rasputin<\/em> who turns into a living steel Colossus<\/strong>, and bitter, disillusioned Apache superman John Proudstar<\/em>, cajoled and coerced into joining the makeshift squad as Thunderbird<\/strong>.
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\nThe second chapter \u2018…And Then There Was One!\u2019<\/em> reintroduces battered, depleted but unbowed team-leader Cyclops who swiftly drills the newcomers into a semblance of readiness before leading them into primordial danger against the monolithic threat of \u2018Krakoa… The Island That Walks Like a Man!\u2019<\/em> Overcoming the phenomenal terror of a rampaging rapacious mutant eco-system and rescuing the \u201creal\u201d team was intended to lead into a quarterly Giant-Size<\/strong> sequel for a new, expanded squad, but so great was fan response that the follow-up adventure was swiftly reworked into a 2-part tale for the rapidly reconfigured and revived comic book which became bimonthly home to the neophyte heroes<\/p>\n

X-Men<\/strong> #94 (August 1975) began \u2018The Doomsmith Scenario!\u2019<\/em> – plotted by editor Wein, scripted by Chris Claremont and with Bob McLeod inking man-on-fire Cockrum – in a canny Armageddon-shocker with a pared-down unit deprived of Sunfire and still-recuperating Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman, Havok<\/em> and Lorna Dane<\/em>. It begins when the new kids are called in by The Beast to stop criminal terrorist Count Nefaria<\/em> from starting an atomic war. Employing a gang of artificial superhumans, the insidious mastermind has seized control of America\u2019s Norad citadel and accidentally escalated a nuclear blackmail scheme into an inescapable countdown to holocaust, leaving the untrained, unprepared mutants to storm in to save the world in epic conclusion \u2018Warhunt!<\/em>\u2019 (inked by Sam Grainger). One of them doesn\u2019t make it back…<\/p>\n

X-Men<\/strong> #96 sees Claremont take charge of the writing (albeit with some plotting input from Bill Mantlo) for \u2018Night of the Demon!\u2019<\/em> Guilt-wracked Cyclops blames himself for the loss of his teammate, and in his explosive rage he accidentally unleashes an antediluvian demonic horror from Earth\u2019s primordial prehistory for the heroes-in-training to thrash. The infernal Nagarai <\/em>would return over and again to bedevil mankind, but the biggest innovation in this issue is the debut of gun-toting biologist\/housekeeper Moira MacTaggert<\/em> and the first inklings of the return of implacable old adversaries…<\/p>\n

A cosmically-widescreen storyline started in #97 with \u2018My Brother, My Enemy!\u2019<\/em>, as Xavier – tormented by visions of interstellar war – takes a vacation, just as Havok & Lorna (finally settling on superhero nom de guerre Polaris<\/em>) attack: apparently willing servants of a mysterious madman using Cyclops\u2019 old undercover alter ego Eric the Red<\/em>. The devastating clash segues into a spectacular 3-part yarn, as pitiless robotic killers return under the hate-filled auspices of mutantophobe Steven Lang<\/em> and his enigmatic backers Project Armageddon<\/em>. The action opens with #98\u2019s \u2018Merry Christmas, X-Men… the Sentinels Have Returned!\u2019<\/em>
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\nWith coordinated attacks capturing semi-retired Marvel Girl plus Wolverine, Banshee and Xavier, Cyclops and the remaining heroes co-opt a space shuttle, storming Lang\u2019s orbital HQ to rescue them in \u2018Deathstar Rising!\u2019<\/em> (inked by Frank Chiaramonte): another phenomenal all-action episode.<\/p>\n

The saga concludes on an agonising cliffhanger with the 100th<\/sup> issue anniversary tale. \u2018Greater Love Hath no X-Man…\u2019<\/em> (with Cockrum inking his own pencils) sees the new X-Men apparently battle the original team before overturning Lang\u2019s monstrous schemes forever. However, their catastrophic clash destroys the only means of escape and, as a gigantic solar flare threatens to eradicate the satellite-station, their only chance of survival means certain death for another X-Man. As #101 unfolded, Claremont & Cockrum were on the on the verge of utterly overturning the accepted status quo of women in comics forever…<\/p>\n

Led by field-commander Cyclops, the team now comprised old acquaintance\/former foe Sean<\/em> – Banshee – Cassidy<\/em>, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus with part-timer Jean Grey still labouring under the nom-de guerre Marvel Girl – but not for much longer…<\/p>\n

\u2018Like a Phoenix from the Ashes\u2019<\/em> (Chiaramonte inks) sees a space shuttle cataclysmically crash into Jamaica Bay. The X-Men had safely travelled in a specially-shielded chamber but Jean had manually piloted the vehicle, unprotected through a lethal radiation storm. As the mutants escape the sinking craft, a fantastic explosion propels the impossibly still alive Jean into the air, clad in a strange gold & green uniform, screaming that she is \u201cFire and Life Incarnate… Phoenix!\u201d<\/p>\n

Immediately collapsing, the critically injured girl is rushed to hospital and a grim wait begins. Unable to explain her survival and too preoccupied to spare time for teaching, Xavier packs Banshee, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Storm and Colossus off to the Irish mutant\u2019s home in County Mayo for a vacation, blissfully unaware Cassidy Keep<\/em> has been compromised and is now a deadly trap for his new students. Within the ancestral pile, Sean\u2019s mutant cousin Black Tom<\/em> has usurped control of the manor and its incredible secrets before – at Eric the Red\u2019s behest – contriving an inescapable ambush, assisted by an old X-Men enemy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Who Will Stop the Juggernaut?\u2019<\/em> (Grainger inks) sees the inexperienced heroes in over their heads and fighting for their lives, but still finds room to reveal the origins of Storm and provide an explanation for her crippling claustrophobia, prior to \u2018The Fall of the Tower\u2019<\/em> explosively ending the tale with mutant heroes and the Keep\u2019s Leprechaun colony (no, really!) uniting to expel the murderous usurpers.<\/p>\n

Although still bi-monthly, the series kicked into confident top gear with \u2018The Gentleman\u2019s Name is Magneto\u2019<\/em> with the weary warriors diverting to Scotland to check on Moira MacTaggert\u2019s island lab: a secret facility containing myriad mutant menaces the X-Men have previously defeated. It\u2019s a very bad move since ever-active Eric has restored the dormant master of magnetism to full power. The mutant terrorist had been turned into a baby – a strangely commonplace fate for villains in those faraway days – but he was all grown up again now and indulging in one last temper tantrum…<\/p>\n

Freshly arrived from America, Moira and Cyclops are only just in time to lead a desperate, humiliating retreat from the triumphant Master of Magnetism. Scott doesn\u2019t care: he realises the entire affair has been a feint to draw the team away from Xavier and Jean…<\/p>\n

He needn\u2019t have worried. Although in \u2018Phoenix Unleashed\u2019<\/em> (inks by Bob Layton) Eric orchestrates an attack by Firelord<\/em> – a cosmic flamethrower and former herald of Galactus<\/em> much like the Silver Surfer<\/strong> – Jean is now fully evolved into a being of unimaginable power who readily holds the fiery marauder at bay. In the interim a long-standing mystery is solved as visions which have tormented Xavier are revealed as a psychic connection to a runaway princess from a distant alien empire. Lilandra<\/em> of the Shi\u2019ar<\/em> had rebelled against her imperial brother and, whilst fleeing, somehow telepathically locked onto her trans-galactic soulmate Charles Xavier. As she made her circuitous way to Earth, embedded Shi\u2019ar spy Shakari<\/em> had assumed the guise of Eric the Red, seeking to remove Lilandra\u2019s potential champion before she arrived…<\/p>\n

During the blistering battle which follows the X-Men\u2019s dramatic arrival, Shakari snatches up Lilandra and drags her through a stargate to their home galaxy, and with the entire universe imperilled, Xavier urges his team to follow. All Jean has to do is re-open a wormhole to the other side of creation…<\/p>\n

A minor digression follows as overstretched artist Cockrum took a breather via a fill-in \u201cuntold tale\u201d of the new team featuring an attack by psychic clones of the original X-Men. \u2018Dark Shroud of the Past\u2019<\/em> is a competent pause by Mantlo, Bob Brown & Tom Sutton, set inside a framing sequence from Cockrum. The regular story resumes in a wry tribute to Star Trek<\/strong> as \u2018Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!\u2019<\/em> (Claremont, Cockrum & Dan Green) finds the heroes stranded in another galaxy where they meet and are beaten by the Shi\u2019ar Imperial Guard<\/em> (an in-joke version of DC\u2019s Legion of Super Heroes<\/strong> in the inimitable Cockrum manner), until bold interstellar rebel freebooters The Starjammers<\/strong> bombastically arrive to turn the tables whilst uncovering a mad scheme to unmake the fabric of space-time.
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\nLilandra\u2019s brother Emperor D\u2019Ken<\/em> is a deranged maniac who in his quest for ultimate power wants to activate a cosmic artefact known alternatively as the M\u2019Kraan Crystal<\/em> and \u201cthe End of All that Is\u201d. He\u2019s also spent time on Earth in the past and played a major role in the life of one of the X-Men…<\/p>\n

This tale (from #107) was Cockrum\u2019s last full X-ploit for years. He would eventually return to replace the man who replaced him. John Byrne not only illustrated but also began co-plotting the X-tales and, as the team roster expanded, the series rose to even greater heights. It would culminate in the landmark Dark Phoenix<\/strong> storyline and first-&-best death of arguably the book\u2019s most beloved and imaginative character and departure of the team\u2019s heart and soul. The epic cosmic saga also seemed to fracture the epochal working relationship of Claremont and Byrne. Within months of publication they went their separate ways: Claremont staying with the mutants whilst Byrne moved on to establish his own reputation as a writer on series such as Alpha Flight<\/strong>, Incredible Hulk<\/strong> and his revolutionised Fantastic Four<\/strong> and reboot of Superman<\/strong> for DC.<\/p>\n

Here though, X-Men and Starjammers battle the Crystal\u2019s astoundingly deadly automated guardians, as this final chapter depicts the newly puissant Phoenix literally saving Reality in a mind-blowing display of power and skill. Trapped inside a staggering other-realm, appalled and enthralled by the intoxicating, addictive nature of her own might, Phoenix reweaves the fabric of existence and for an encore brings the heroes home again. The conclusion of this ambitious epic was drawn by Byrne and inked by Terry Austin. Their visual virtuosity was to become an industry benchmark as the X-Men grew in popularity and complexity.<\/p>\n

However, even though the bravura high-octane thrills of \u2018Armageddon Now\u2019<\/em> seem an unrepeatable highpoint, Claremont & Byrne had only started. The best was still to come, but it precluded ending their other ongoing collaboration: a mystic martial arts thriller\u2026<\/p>\n

Inked by Dan Green in Iron Fist<\/strong> #14, \u2018Snowfire\u2019<\/em> finds masked marvel Danny Rand<\/em> and his combat colleague Colleen Wing<\/em> running for their lives in arctic conditions after a vacation retreat to a palatial Canadian Rockies estate is ruined by a criminal raid. Leading the plunderers is deadly mercenary Sabretooth<\/em>. Despite being rendered temporarily blind, the K\u2019un Lun Kid ultimately defeats the mutant marauder, but his fiercely feral foe would return again and again to bedevil both Danny and the X-Men. With Claremont & Byrne increasingly absorbed by their stellar collaboration on the revived and resurgent adventures of Marvel\u2019s mutant horde, Iron Fist<\/strong> #15 (September 1977) was their last martial arts mash-up for a while. The series ended in spectacular fashion as, through a comedy of errors, Danny stumbles into a morass of misunderstanding and ends up battling recently returned galaxy rovers Storm Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, and Phoenix in \u2018Enter, the X-Men\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

X-Men<\/strong> #109\u2019s \u2018Home Are the Heroes!\u2019<\/em> (Claremont, Byrne & Austin) sees Wolverine finally developing a back-story and some depth of character whilst technological wonder Weapon Alpha<\/em> attacks the recuperating team in an attempt to force the enigmatic Logan<\/em> to rejoin the Canadian Secret Service. Renamed Vindicator<\/em>, Alpha would later return leading Alpha Flight<\/strong> – a Canadian government sponsored superteam which would eventually graduate to their own eccentric high-profile series.
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\nEschewing chronological sequence, this is followed by an extra-length exploit from Marvel Team Up Annual<\/strong> #1 (1976 by Mantlo, Sal Buscema & Mike Esposito, from a plot by Mantlo, Claremont & Bonnie Wilford). \u2018The Lords of Light and Darkness!\u2019<\/em> sees Spider-Man<\/strong> and X-Men Storm, Banshee, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Phoenix & Cyclops assisting Xavier in combatting a pantheon of scientists mutated by atomic accident and elevated to the ranks of gods. Like most deities, these puissant ones believe they know what is best for humanity and don\u2019t like being disabused of the notion…<\/p>\n

Mantlo then teamed with Byrne & Frank Giacoia to bring closure to a tale begun – and left hanging – in Marvel Premiere<\/strong> #31. Set minutes after the Annual, Marvel Team Up<\/strong> #53 (January 1977) reveals a \u2018Nightmare in New Mexico!\u2019<\/em> as Spider-Man says goodbye to the X-folk and hello to The Hulk<\/strong> and troubled gene-splicing experiment Woodgod<\/em> after the tragic bio-construct flees from corrupt Army Colonel Del Tremens<\/em>. As Tremens sought to suppress the calamitous crisis and his own indiscretions by killing everybody, the final scene sees the webspinner trapped in a rocket and blasted into space. The tale has very little to do with the X-Men, other than a rather gratuitous overlap and ends here without resolution, but still looks pretty damn good after all these years…<\/p>\n

Cover-dated April 1978 X-Men<\/strong> #110 (Claremont, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga & Cockrum) detail \u2018The \u201cX\u201d-Sanction!\u2019<\/em>: a rather limp and hasty fill-in where cyborg mercenary Warhawk<\/em> infiltrates Xavier\u2019s mansion in search of \u201cintel\u201d for a mysterious, unspecified master… before getting his shiny silver head handed to him.<\/p>\n

This compendium of uncanny X-episodes wraps up with the contents of Marvel Team Up<\/strong> #69 & 70 (May & June 1978) as in \u2018Night of the Living God!\u2019<\/em> (Claremont, Byrne & Ricardo Villamonte) Spider-Man clashes with Ancient Egyptian-themed thieves and is drawn into the perpetual duel between cosmic-powered X-Man Havoc and his personal nemesis The Living Monolith<\/em>. When the battle turns against the heroes it requires the might of Thor<\/strong> to stop the ravening monumental menace in conclusion \u2018Whom Gods Destroy!\u2019<\/em> (DeZu\u00f1iga inks).<\/p>\n

Following the cover of 1975\u2019s all-reprint Giant-Size X-Men<\/strong> #2, this tome terminates with a glorious and revelatory selection of extras including John Romita\u2019s original design sketches for Wolverine; Byrne\u2019s first X-Man work (a puzzle from Marvel fanzine F.O.O.M.<\/strong> #7) and design material from Cockrum\u2019s DC Comics proposal The Outsiders <\/strong>(a Legion of Super-Heroes spin-off he later retooled to create Nightcrawler, Storm, Phoenix and the other New X-Men). There are also unused Cockrum pencil pages, initial sketches for the Starjammers, costume upgrades for Angel, cover art for X-themed The Comic Reader<\/strong> #145, and model sheets for Nightcrawler, Storm, Phoenix and Colossus.<\/p>\n

Further treasures include Gil Kane\u2019s cover sketch and original art for Giant-Size X-Men<\/strong> #1; original Cockrum pages from GSXM<\/strong> #1 and F.O.O.M.<\/strong> #10 (an all-X issue); articles from the fanzine – Mutation of the Species<\/em>, X-Men! X-Men!. Read All About \u2018Em!<\/em> – a pin-up by Don Maitz, X-Men X-pos\u00e9 <\/em>and spoof strip \u2018EggsMen\u2019<\/em>; unused pages by Bob Brown and previous collection covers by Kane and Cockrum, given painted makeovers by Dean White.<\/p>\n

Entertaining, groundbreaking and incredibly intoxicating, these adventures are an invaluable and crucial grounding in contemporary fights \u2018n\u2019 tights fiction no fan or casual reader can be allowed to ignore.
\n\u00a9 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2017 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Len Wein, Chris Claremont, Bill Mantlo, Bonnie Wilford, Dave Cockrum, Bob Brown, Tony DeZu\u00f1iga, John Byrne, Sal Buscema, Bob McLeod, Sam Grainger, Frank Chiaramonte, Bob Layton, Tom Sutton, Dan Green, Terry Austin, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia, Ricardo Villamonte & various (MARVEL) ISBN: 978-1-3029-0390-9 TPB\/Digital edition This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened … <\/p>\n

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