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TheX-Menbrought something different to Marvel Comics when the team debuted.
For a few years, Marvel only reprinted classic issues spread a few months apart.
Marvel introduced new mutants and created what fans today recognize as the X-Men.
This might be the most important X-Men issue in comic book history.
In this issue,five new mutants joined the X-Mento help Cyclops rescue his original teammates.
With this, theAll-New, All-Different X-Menwere formed.
This was where the team decided who would stay and who would leave.
In the first few pages, several members new and old quit the team.
Every member of the original squad left except forCyclops, who remained on as the X-Men’s team leader.
He then led the new team of mutants into action and Marvel never looked back.
In this issue, the team ended up in outer space battling Sentinels.
This time theSentinels were controlled by Stephen Lang, who became one of the team’s most vile enemies.
However, the most important moment came at the end of the issue.
The team had to find a way back to Earth and there was little chance of them surviving.
This was also the start of the road to theDark Phoenix Saga.
First up, it brought back Magneto for the first time to battle the new X-Men team.
This explains why he is younger now than he should be.
That really played out first inUncanny X-Men#107.
Wolverine proved his loyalty here, but this was not the end of this battle.
First, it introduced one of Professor X’s greatest enemies in The Shadow King, Amahl Farouk.
Second, it showed a bit of Storm’s origin as a child pickpocket than Farouk used.
This book’s artist, John Byrne, created the newAlpha Flightcomic series for Marvel after this.
The issue showed how much power she really had as Moira MacTaggert ran tests on her on Muir Island.
However, what Jean didn’t know was that Jason Wyngarde was manipulating her mind.
It all started here.
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