Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 (1999)

Publisher: Marvel Comics Type: Limited Series (Team) Genre: Superhero Featuring: X-Men

Status: Finished Publication Date: September—November, 1999

Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 #1
"Call to Arms!"
Release date: July 28, 1999
Cover date: September, 1999

Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 #2
"The Trouble With Mannites"
Release date: August 25, 1999
Cover date: October, 1999

Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 #3
"In The Shadow Of Death!"
Release date: September 22, 1999
Cover date: November, 1999

See Also

• Uncanny X-Men
• X-Men
• Back to Astonishing X-Men
• Back to X-Men

Notes

• The X-Men battle Apocalypse's latest Horseman, Death, as they attempt to save the lives of the mysterious Mannites.

• The second limited series to bear the title Astonishing X-Men was published in 1999 and occurred during The Shattering storyline. In this series, most of the regular X-Men leave the team over a conflict with Professor X. The three-issue series, written by Howard Mackie and illustrated by Brandon Peterson, featured an interim team consisting of Wolverine, Phoenix, Cyclops, Archangel, Cable and Nate Grey.

• This team protects the Mannites, a group of super powered, genetically engineered children from Death, a horseman of Apocalypse. Wolverine is apparently murdered by Death in the final pages of the series. However, it was later revealed that "Death" was actually a mind controlled Wolverine, and that the "Wolverine" who was killed was an impostor, a shapeshifting Skrull.