Marvel In October 2008 Part 2 – X-Men & Mutants

ASTONISHING X-MEN: GHOST BOXES #1 (of 2)
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Pencils by ALAN DAVIS & ADI GRANOV
Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
You met Subject X in the pages of Astonishing X-Men! But what was he really doing and who he was doing it for? Find out in this essential 2-issue tie-in series to Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi’s opening salvo on Astonishing X-Men! Ghost Boxes is about the choices that man made and could have made, and the ripples they cause. Ghost Boxes is about the real stakes of the Ghost Box storyline, and what will happen if the X-Men fail to solve the mystery.
48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

UNCANNY X-MEN #503
Written by MATT FRACTION
Pencils & Cover by GREG LAND
Who will save the X-Men from the Hellfire Cult?  It’s not Wolverine.  It’s not Cyclops.  But it better be someone because they’re a minute from death.  And who is that mysterious red-head?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

X-MEN: ORIGINAL SIN #1
Written by MIKE CAREY & DANIEL WAY
Penciled by MIKE DEODATO & SCOT EATON
Cover by MIKE DEODATO & RICHARD ISANOVE
« ORIGINAL SIN » PART 1
WHAT IS THE SECRET REASON WOLVERINE JOINED THE X-MEN?
The X-Men event of the fall begins in this one-shot! For years, Logan has been a man without a past, whose memories existed only as conflicting fragments. And Charles Xavier has been a master of his own mind and others. Now the tables are turned, and as WOLVERINE struggles to rescue his son, DAKEN, from the evil and darkness that have consumed him, PROFESSOR X comes face-to-face with the most terrifying secret of all! Beginning here and continuing in the pages of X-MEN LEGACY and
WOLVERINE: ORIGINS this month and next, ORIGINAL SIN is sure to turn your expectations on their head!
48 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

X-MEN: LEGACY #217
Written by MIKE CAREY
Penciled by SCOT EATON
Cover by MIKE DEODATO & RICHARD ISANOVE
« ORIGINAL SIN » PART 2
After his bruising encounter with Cyclops and Emma Frost, Professor X is forced to revisit the biggest challenge and the biggest failure of his career: Logan.  But the layers of lies hide one last, deadly secret which goes back to the days of the X-Men’s founding, and the Professor’s timing couldn’t possibly be worse…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #29
Written by DANIEL WAY
Pencils by MIKE DEODATO
Cover by MIKE DEODATO & RICHARD ISANOVE
Zombie Variant by MIKE DEODATO
“ORIGINAL SIN” PART 3
Continued from X-MEN LEGACY 217! It’s WOLVERINE versus the HELLFIRE CLUB as he seeks his missing son, DAKEN! The bodies will fly and the blood will run as PROFESSOR X learns the secret of Wolverine’s early days with the original new X-MEN! Things were not as they seemed—but who was deceiving whom? And is there time to save Daken’s soul?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99

WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY #1 (of 4)
Written by Jason Aaron
Penciled by Stephen Segovia
Cover by DAVE WILKINS
The X-Men have arrived in San Francisco—but Wolverine finds he’s left more than his heart there! Something happened in Chinatown more than 50 years ago…something that the people there still have not forgotten. And now Logan finds himself a marked man, pursued by fighters from every dojo in town–not to mention the mystical warriors of the criminal Triad and their merciless leader…who just happens to be Logan’s ex-girlfriend. Guess you shoulda stayed in New York, huh bub?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99

CABLE #7
Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Zombie Variant by RICHARD CORBEN
“WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD,” PART 1
When Bishop travels back to the present in search of intel that will aid his search for Cable and the mutant baby, he’s
intercepted by the X-Force!  With Cyclops eagerly waiting to interrogate his former comrade, it would appear that the game is over for the time-traveling cop.  So why is Bishop smiling?  What trick does he have up his sleeve?  And what does this mean for Cable and the baby?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

X-FORCE #8
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE
Pencils & Cover by MIKE CHOI
“OLD GHOSTS”
The Vanisher now possesses the one thing that can kill every mutant on the planet. Guess who just made X-Force’s hit list? The hunt begins in Japan, but Wolverine and his team aren’t the only ones after him. And in an attempt to make peace with the blood on his hands, Warpath goes to visit his brother’s grave…but what he finds when he arrives means the killing has just begun. Part 2 (OF 4)
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99

X-MEN: MAGNETO TESTAMENT #2 (of 5)
Written by GREG PAK
Art by CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
The latest from the Marvel Knights line!
The definitive origin story of one of Marvel’s greatest icons continues as young Magneto, a Jewish boy in Hitler’s Germany, travels to Berlin with his father in a desperate attempt to secure protection from the Nazi menace. What new rules and skills must father and son learn to survive in this insane new world? And will those lessons be enough to save their family on the Night of Broken Glass?
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99

X-FACTOR #36
Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by LARRY STROMAN
Cover by BOO COOK
X-Factor manages to track down Darwin, but will they be able to rescue him before the mysterious Karma organization
completes their experiments? And with it’s forces stretched so thin, can our mutant heroes stand up to the U.S. government when it decides to place Siryn and her unborn child in “protective custody”?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

X-MEN: WORLD’S APART #1 (of 4)
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Penciled by DIOGENES NEVES
Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
Over the course of her life, STORM has been many things: A thief. A goddess. An X-Man. A Wife. A Queen.  But not until now have these roles come into conflict. When a mutant commits a mysterious murder in Wakanda, Storm takes it upon herself to investigate. And what she discovers will force her into a position where she must choose: Will she stand with the X-Men or with her husband? Writer Chris Yost (X-FORCE, NEW X-MEN) and up-and-coming artist Diogenes Neves bring you this first part of a limited series that will change Storm forever…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

YOUNG X-MEN #7
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils & Cover by BEN OLIVER
Zombie Variant by  HUMBERTO RAMOS
MANIFEST DESTINY TIE-IN
The Young X-Men have a brand new line-up… but one of them isn’t a mutant!  And doesn’t know it!  Secrets are revealed and discovered in this self-contained issue perfect for new readers and fans of the new Manifest Destiny X-Status Quo!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

X-MEN: MANIFEST DESTINY #2 (of 4)
Written by MIKE CAREY & CHRIS YOST
Penciled by MICHAEL RYAN  & VARIOUS
Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Mike Carey’s Iceman saga continues as things take a dark turn for Bobby Drake with the emergence of an old, deadly foe of the X-Men. Will this spell disaster for our hero or a new chapter in the history of this original X-Man? Also, Emma Frost as you’ve never seen her before. And find out what Boom Boom has been up to since NEXTWAVE!
48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #1
Written by JEFF PARKER & ROGER LANGRIDGE
Penciled by MICHAEL CHO, ROGER LANGRIDGE, NICK KILISLIAN,
DEAN HASPIEL, DAVID WILLIAMS & JEFF PARKER
Cover by JEFF PARKER, KEVIN NOWLAN & BRAD ANDERSON
Just in time for Halloween, The Beast starts conducting investigations into his own « X » files around the world! Are there aliens among us- or things even weirder? Featuring special guest-star artists and classic material too! And emboldened by the safety net of Nowlan inks, Parker even drew the cover!
48 PGS./Rated A …$3.99 

WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #8
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by SALVADOR ESPIN & STEVE CUMMINGS
Cover by MICHAEL GOLDEN
Kitty Pryde is dead … and Wolverine holds the Soviet Super-Soldiers responsible! Logan unleashes the most ferocious berserker rampage Russia has ever seen — is the hero lost to the beast forever?
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

NEW EXILES #12 & 13
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by PACO DIAZ LUQUE, TOM GRUMMETT & MORE
Covers by MICHAEL GOLDEN
& ALEXANDER GARNER
Another double-dose of dimensional deeds dives your way this month!  First, in issue 12, Sabretooth and Cat finish their face-off against Madame Hydra and her evil band of crosstime killers.  Then, as a new arc begins in issue 13, the Exiles deal with the fallout of their last two missions…oh, and that pesky impending End of All that Is, the death and destruction of the OmniVerse!  It’s a double-barreled confrontation that not all of them may survive.
32 PGS.(each)/Rated A …$2.99 (each)