The Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist, ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive - and in Apocalypse's long shadow, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier's oldest friend, Magneto: the Amazing X-Men! When Bishop, last survivor of the true Marvel Universe, locates the X-Men and explains how the world went wrong, these embittered mutants and their tenuous allies must risk everything - and undertake a dangerous and multi-pronged quest - to put things right! The comics event of 1995 is collected in one deluxe oversized hardcover! Collecting UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #320-321, X-MEN (1991) #40-41, CABLE (1993) #20, X-MEN ALPHA, AMAZING X-MEN #1-4, ASTONISHING X-MEN (1995) #1-4, FACTOR X #1-4, GAMBIT & THE X-TERNALS #1-4, GENERATION NEXT #1-4, WEAPON X (1995) #1-4, X-CALIBRE #1-4, X-MAN #1-4, X-MEN OMEGA, AGE OF APOCALYPSE: THE CHOSEN and X-MEN ASHCAN #2.

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #210-213, X-Factor #9-11, New Mutants #46, Thor #373-374, and Power Pack #27.

    X-Men Visionaries: The Neal Adams Collection covers nine issues where the original X-Men (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, Iceman, and then the newly Havok and Lorna Dane) battle the mutant persecuting Sentinels, grapple with the monstrous Sauron, combat their arch-villain Magneto (with the help of jungle hero Ka-Zar), and repel an alien invasion. Neal Adams, along with Jim Steranko, was widely recognised as the most innovative artist in comics at the end of the 1960's and his stunning work in these issues of the X-Men (well served by Tom Palmer's inks and Roy Thomas' well-paced and strong scripts) infused new life into the title and stopped it from being cancelled outright. Adams later said: "One of the things I and others observed was that after the X-Men was cancelled [the title was continued after March 1970 with reprints of old issues], almost every new artist and writer that came to Marvel wanted to do the X-Men because of those ten issues. And as the book was passed to each in his turn, they all do Sauron, they all do the Sentinels ... they all do Magneto."

    Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise (during the five-year mission of the original series) and members of the X-Men, who traveled through a dimensional rift chasing the mutant Proteus.

    Front & back covers by Alan Davis & Mark Farmer. Collects Uncanny X-Men Annual #3, 10, and 17, New Mutants Annual #2, and Incredible Hulk Annual #7.