Uncanny X-Men (1st series)

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Series Details
Uncanny X-Men (1st series)
Publisher/Imprint: 
Marvel
Publication Date: 
September 1963 to December 2011
Issue Numbering: 
X-Men (1st series) #1-141
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #142-544
Overview: 

Title was originally just called X-Men until #142, when it changed to Uncanny X-Men.

Title was canceled with #66 but continued to be published until #93, reprinting earlier stories. Following Giant-Size X-Men #1 and the introduction of the "all-new, all-different" team, new stories began with #94.

Although the title was cancelled with #544, the series restarted with a new number #1 one month later.

Annuals / Specials: 

18 numbered annuals, followed by 7 annuals numbered by the years in which they were published.

The first two numbered annuals were published as "X-Men King-Size Special." They were also reprint books, rather than original stories. X-Men Annual #3 was the first true annual, published in 1979 after the beginning of the "all-new, all-different" era. Annual series did not explicitly become Uncnany X-Men Annual until #16 in 1992, following the first annual for X-Men (2nd series). Annual #18 was the last to be numbered, followed the next year by Uncanny X-Men Annual 1995. All subsequent annuals followed this until the final anual in 2001. Uncanny X-Men Annuals resumed a numbering scheme in 2006, renumbering from a new #1. This series of annuals, running 3 issues, is considered by this site to be Uncanny X-Men Annual (2nd series).

Years Published Name of Series Issue Numbering Brief Description
1963 to 1981 X-Men (1st series) #1-140 original series
1981 to 2011 Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #141-544 series continues, now officially Uncanny X-Men
2011 to 2012 Uncanny X-Men (2nd series) #1-20 post-Schism
2012 to 2015 Uncanny X-Men (3rd series) #1-35 Bendis series, Children of the Atom
2015 Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #600 one-shot, final Bendis issue
2015 to 2016 Uncanny X-Men (4th series) #1-19 All-New, All-Different Marvel; Magneto team
2018 to 2019 Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #1-22 X-Men: Disassembled

Crossovers/Events/Major Stories:

#129-137 - Dark Phoenix Saga
#141-142 - Days of Duture Past
#210-213 - Mutant Massacre
#225-227 - Fall of the Mutants
#240-243 - Inferno
#256-258 - Acts of Vengeance
#270-272 - X-Tinction Agenda
#278-280 - Muir Island Saga
#294-296 - X-Cutioner's Song
#304 - Fatal Attractions
#307 - Bloodties
#316-317 - Phalanyx Covenant
#320 - Legion Quest
#334-335 - Onslaught
#362-364 - Hunt for Xavier
#366-367 - Magneto War
#376-377 - the Twelve
#387 - Maximum Security
#388 - Dream's End
#462-465 - House of M
#466-468 - Decimation
#475-486 - Rise and Fall of the Shi'Ar Empire
#488-491 - Endangered Species
#492-494 - Messiah Complex
#513-514 - Utopia
#523-525 - Second Coming
#526 - Heroic Age
#540-543 - Fear Itself

Significant / "first" issues:

#1 - first X-Men, Professor X, Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl, Magneto
#2 - first Vanisher
#3 - First Blob
#4 - first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Mastermind, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Toad
#9 - first Unus the Untouchable
#10 - first modern Ka-Zar
#11 - first Stranger
#12-13 - first Juggernaut
#14-16 - first Sentinels
#19 - first Mimic
#20 - first Lucifer
#28 - first Banshee
#31 - first Cobalt Man
#39 - graduation costumes
#42 - "death" of Professor X
#50 - first Polaris
#54 - first Alex Summers
#58 - first Havok
#64 - first Sunfire
#65 - Professor X returns
#66 - last original story
#67 - reprints begin
#93 - reprints end
#94 - "all-new, all-different" team
#95 - Thunderbird I dies
#101 - first Phoenix II
#104 - first Starjammers
#109 - first Weapon Alpha
#120-121 - first Alpha Flight
#129 - first Kitty Pryde
#130 - first Dazzler
#129-137 - Dark Phoenix Saga
#141-142 - Days of Duture Past
#142 - title becomes Uncanny X-Men (1st series)
#155 - first Brood
#168 - first Madelyne Pryor
#169 - first Morlocks
#184 - first Forge
#199 - first official Freedom Force
#200 - Trial of Magneto, Xavier leaves for Shi'Ar Galaxy
#201 - Nathan Christopher Charles Summers born
#210-213 - Mutant Massacre
#221 - first Mister Sinister
#229 - first Jessica Hoan (future Tyger Tiger), first Reavers, first Gateway, "Outback" era begins
#235 - first Genosha
#243 - X-mansion destroyed (first time)
#244 - first Jubilee
#247 - Master Mold absorbs Nimrod (prelude to Bastion)
#256 - first "new" Psylocke
#266 - first Gambit
#281 - first Trevor Fitzroy, first Upstarts
#282 - first Bishop
#300 - first Amelia Voght
#303 - death of Illyana
#317 - first Skin
#322 - first mention Onslaught
#345 - first Jospeh (Magneto II)
#366 - first Astra IV
#381 - "Revolution" (aka Six-Month Gap)
#390 - Legacy virus cured, Colossus dies
#395 - first Church of Humanity
#399 - first Stacy X
#401 - 'Nuff Said, first X-Corps
#444 - X-Men form X-Treme 
#500 - X-Men move to San Francisco
#544 - final lissue

Last Updated: 
30th August 2023 by Douglas Mangum