Astonishing X-Men #1 [Direct Edition]
(March 1995)

Marvel, 1995 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.95 USD; 2.65 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics
Barcode
759606041992 00111
Editing
Bob Harras (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Enter Now...The Age of Apocalypse (Table of Contents)

X-Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Madureira (signed)
Inks
Tim Townsend (signed)
Colors
Steve Buccellato
Letters
Comicraft; Todd Klein (logo design)
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Magneto; Rogue; Sabretooth; Wildchild; Storm; Iceman; Blink; Morph; Sunfire; Banshee]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Source for letters credit is Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Vandal et al. 2009). Logo design credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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Once More With Feeling (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Scott Lobdell (credited)
Pencils
Joe Madureira (credited)
Inks
Tim Townsend (credited); Dan Green (credited)
Colors
Steve Buccellato (credited); Digital Chameleon (credited)
Letters
Chris Eliopoulos (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'm not even going to try to sugarcoat this, my friends.
Genre
superhero
Characters
X-Men [Magneto; Rogue; Sabretooth; Wildchild; Storm; Iceman; Blink; Morph; Sunfire; Quicksilver; Banshee; Nightcrawler; Gambit; Bishop]; Apocalypse (villain); Rex (villain); Delgado (villain); Legion (cameo flashback); Professor X (cameo flashback)
Synopsis
Apocalypse rules the world and Magneto and his X-Men are the last bastion of hope for a rapidly dying humanity. To complicate things, the stranger, Bishop, has arrived and told Magneto that this reality is false and solely due to the untimely death of Charles Xavier in the past. As the X-Men discuss this conundrum, Blink and Sunfire arrive at X-Mansion and tell their teammates that Apocalypse has once again begun culling human beings through his agent, Holocaust. The X-Men prepare to face Holocaust and bid their farewells, realizing that this mission is most likely of the suicide variety.
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X-Facts: The Dream is Over (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Synopsis
Text piece on the Age of Apocalypse; Page design by Comicraft.
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Enter Now...The Age of Apocalypse
    X-Men
  2. 1. Once More With Feeling
    X-Men
  3. 2. X-Facts: The Dream is Over
    X-Men
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