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Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #515-518. Peter Parker must confront a former classmate who - like himself - was granted amazing powers during a science experiment gone awry. But why does he blame Peter for the laboratory mishap, and just how far will he take his quest for vengeance?

Jean Grey is back - with her own team of X-Men! Reborn into a world she doesn''t recognize, Jean gathers allies old and new - including Nightcrawler, Namor and the All-New Wolverine - to face an evil that threatens to tear down Xavier''s dream by any means necessary! The red squad must infiltrate a top-secret compound in order to save a mutant they''ve never met. They''ll have to avoid guards armed with high-tech guns, protestors armed with burning hate, and Sentinels armed with...even bigger and more dangerous guns than the guards. All in a day''s work for the X-Men! But as battle rages in India, the newest recruit may be the key to the whole team''s survival! Gambit fi nds himself caught up the intensifying global frenzy of mutant hate - but could one of Jean''s oldest friends turn foe? COLLECTING: X-MEN RED 1-5, X-MEN RED ANNUAL 1

The first supplement to the Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game is bursting withdozens of new profiles for the X-Men and their most vicious enemies.

Collects Uncanny X-Men #444-449. New alliances are forged as old friendships are rekindled, but one thing is certain: The X-Men will never be the same! With the team split in two, the Uncanny X-Men must face the unbridled force of the Fury on two sides of the globe! Will the villain''s "divide-and-conquer" plan prove to be the X-Men''s ultimate undoing?

Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #11-14. He''s struggled for years to control the coiled reptile that dwells deep within his heart. Now, at the end of his rope, one bad day will change Dr. Curt Connors'' life forever - and the Lizard will stalk the streets once more! As Connors'' self-destructive behavior escalates, Spider-Man must try to corral his out-of-control friend. But the Lizard may force the wall-crawler to kill, rather than cure! Plus: On a rooftop in the Bronx sits a sad handicapped man. A prisoner of his own crippled body, how will a battle between the wall-crawler and Morbius, the Living Vampire, change his life?

Meet Marvel''s mutant heroes, the uncanny X-Men! They may be a little different, but they''ll still fight to save a world that hates and fears them! Charles Xavier has gathered Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel and Iceman to his private school-slash-mutant super hero training facility - just in time to face the villainous Magneto, Master of Magnetism! Then, join the X-Men in action against the Mimic - who can copy all their incredible powers! Then, a new generation of X-Men, including Phoenix, Wolverine and Storm, must face a truly galactic threat! As the world trembles and the sky starts to boil, Professor X attempts a desperate rescue mission - but the Knights of Hykon won''t be stopped! Sit down and strap in for out-of-this-world adventures with the X-Men! COLLECTING: X-MEN (1963) 1, 19; UNCANNY X-MEN: FIRST CLASS 5-7

Collects Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive #523.1 and #525-529. Who is murdering the citizens of Hell''s Kitchen that The Panther has previously rescued? That''s what T''Challa wants to know-and he only has hours to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again!

Collects X-Men Origins: Deadpool, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Iceman. Today they are X-Men, protectors of humanity and the vanguard of mutantkind. But before they became heroes, they were just teenagers - frightened of a world that feared and hated them. Adolescence is never easy - but it''s even harder when you find yourself with incredible abilities you can barely understand, much less control. Take a look back at how some of your favorite mutants fought their way through childhood to become X-Men.

Collects X-Treme X-Men (2001) #10-18. Storm, Rogue, Gambit and the X-Treme Team stand as Earth''s only defense against an invading alien armada!

Collects New Warriors (1990) #45-46, X-Force (1991) 32-37, Annual #3. The mighty mutants known as X-Force team up with one of the most popular teams of heroes to come out of the nineties - the New Warriors! When the villainous Upstarts target former members of the New Mutants and Hellions for their latest hunt, the two teams find themselves in the crosshairs!

Uncanny Avengers 23, Magneto 9-10, Uncanny Avengers 24-25, Uncanny Avengers Annual 1

Collects Dr. Strange stories from Strange Tales (1987) #1-19 and the Cloak & Dagger story from #7. It''s Dr. Strange as you''ve never seen him before: as an eye-patch-wearing wielder of black magic! See him take on the deadliest foes in any dimension: Khat, Erlik Khan, Shuma-Gorath, Enitharmon the Weaver and more! Guest-starring the Defenders, Valkyrie, Cloak and Dagger, and some of Strange''s closest friends - including Rintrah, Topaz, Clea and Wong!

Collects Dark Wolverine #82-84, New Mutants (2009) #11, and Siege: Storming Asgard - Heroes & Villains. The end has come. While he is counted among the greatest villains the Marvel Universe has ever seen, one question remains: whose side is Daken really on? As part of the SIEGE on Asgard, what, or who, will he encounter in the land of the gods that will change him forever? And in New Mutants, with all the Asgardians falling in the Siege of Asgard, someone needs to deal with the dead. And who better to do so than a Valkyrie. But where is Dani Moonstar supposed to be bringing these dead?

Deadpool''s Secret Secret Wars 1-4, Secret Wars (1984) 1

Collects Excalibur (1988) #12-20. England''s premier super-team takes their show on the road as their interdimensional odyssey begins, leaving their earthly enemies to the tenacious Technet! Plus: From the pages of Captain Britain''s original series, see Jamie Braddock at the beginning of his reality-wrecking career! Guest-starring nearly every hero and villain in the Marvel Universe - or very unreasonable facsimiles thereof! Magic, manga and more await within!

Collects Journey Into Mystery #503-513. Thor is dead! Asgard has been destroyed! Its gods are scattered across the Earth, living mortal lives with no memory of their past selves! Can Sif, Balder, Ulik the Troll, the Warriors Three, the Enchantress and the other Lost Gods discover the truth about themselves in time to stop the world-destroying plot of Seth, God of Death? Featuring the Wrecking Crew, Spider-Man and an all-new Loki!

Collects NYX: No Way Home #1-6. Kiden Nixon is a survivor. She survived the murder of her police officer father, the discovery of her latent mutant powers, even a stint living homeless on the mean streets of New York City. And at 16, she has finally managed to settle into a happy life. But she discovers the home she built herself is a house of cards when she returns to her apartment to find the place trashed, the walls covered with blood and her mentor Cameron Palmer missing. Fearing for their lives, Kiden flees with her roommates: Bobby Soul, an ex-gangster with the ability to inhabit people''s minds; Tatiana, a runaway with unusual transformative abilities; and the autistic Lil'' Bro. Kiden is desperate to rescue Cameron - but when it becomes clear she''s being framed for the disappearance, she finds herself in the crosshairs of the police and S.H.I.E.L.D. Now, Kiden is back to where she started: on the streets and on the run.

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #57-58, 500-502. Peter spends his birthday as Spidey fighting an inter-dimensional threat that''s descended on Manhattan. Alongside a who''s who of Marvel Universe guest-stars - including the FF, Thor, Iron Man, the X-Men''s Cyclops and Dr. Strange, the battle culminates in a trip through time, where Peter/Spider-Man meets ALL of his greatest adversaries like Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin, and one very special and unexpected reunion!

Collects Captain America: Patriot #1-4, What If? (1977) #4, All-Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special. What does it take to be the living symbol of America...the Sentinel of Liberty...the Super-Soldier of World War II? What does it take to be Captain America? 1941. Captain America puts on his mask and shield for the first time, and instantly inspires an entire nation - including rough-and-tumble reporter Jeff Mace, who quickly dons his own star-spangled suit and calls himself the Patriot! It''s a decision that will take him from stopping stateside saboteurs to headlining the home-front heroes known as the Liberty Legion to the most unexpected offer of all when the Sentinel of Liberty dies, and Jeff Mace is asked to be the next Captain America! This is the story of a man who was a great Patriot and his determination to be something more. His attempt to be not just a hero, but a symbol. His struggle to show he has what it takes to be Captain America! Plus: It''s 1946, and the memory of those lost in World War II haunts everyone - including Jeff Mace, the new Captain America, and his teammates on the All-Winners Squad - especially when Times Square is overrun by undead soldiers wanting their lives back! And bear witness as Mace takes up the mantle of Captain America as originally chronicled in the classic "What If the Invaders Had Stayed Together after World War Two?

Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #23-26. Spinning directly out of the events of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: SINS PAST, Spider-Man and Sarah, the daughter of Gwen Stacy and the web-slinger''s greatest enemy, embark on a journey of discovery - one that will take them halfway around the world to Paris, and into the sights of a mysterious new enemy!

Collects Hulk (2008) #22-24. Who is the Red Hulk? The truth is finally out: The identity of the Red Hulk is revealed! Everything Hulk fans have been waiting for pays off here, but it only whets the appetite for the epic final showdown between Red and Green Hulks u0097 a cataclysmic battle that will settle who comes out on top once and for all.

Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #466-471. Faced with a future she thought was destroyed. Rachel Grey will find out just what she''s really made of when her entire family is placed on the intergalactic wanted list!

Collects Patsy Walker: Hellcat (2008) #1-5 and material from Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #1-4. Patsy Walker, S.H.I.E.L.D. wants YOU to join the Initiative...and protect the frozen north. You heard me right, sister. The Klondike. Seward''s Folly. Alaska. So pack some long johns and prepare for trouble. Plus, we all know Patsy Walker is Hellcat, so who''s the other Hellcat?

Collects X-Men/Fantastic Four #1-5. The X-Men and the Fantastic Four team up with the help of Pat Lee and Dreamwave Studios in this heart-pounding adventure! Can the two teams put their differences aside to stop a creeping menace from outer space that threatens our planet''s very existence? Even as the heroes trek into the stars, the real threat to their mission might just be among themselves! It''s the X-Men and Fantastic Four versus...the X-Men and Fantastic Four?! An unexpected adversary turns Marvel''s two greatest hero families against one another.

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #51-56. Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, and the estranged love-of-his-life, Mary Jane, continue to deal with the aftermath of the decision that changes their relationship forever. As Peter deals with matters of the heart, his web-swinging alter ego faces dangers lurking behind every corner, and calls upon all his astonishing abilities to make it out alive!

Collects Punisher War Journal (1988) #1-8. Angry and dangerous loners are famed for keeping journals, and Frank Castle is no exception! The Punisher confronts deadly enemies from both war and peacetime, but a vacation in Africa introduces him to a far different legacy of the past: dinosaurs! But the wild man waiting to throw down on him is no throwback. It''s Wolverine! Guns vs. claws for the historic first time! Guest-starring Daredevil!

Collects Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment, Doctor Strange (1974) #57 and material from Astonishing Tales (1970) #8, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #16 and #43. Every year on Midsummer''s Eve, Victor von Doom clashes with the forces of evil in a vain attempt to free his mother''s soul from Hell. Only when Doctor Stephen Strange -- Master of the Mystic Arts and Earth''s Sorcerer Supreme -- is convinced to join the fight, does the outcome have any hope of changing. But first these unlikely allies must journey to Mephisto''s infernal realm ... where they find that the cost of one soul may be more than they are willing to pay!

Collects Iron Man (1968) #215-224. With Stark Enterprises'' new space station in place, Iron Man - whether Tony Stark or Jim Rhodes - is on the move. But if it''s up to AIM, they''ll be headed straight down...to burn up on re-entry! Even with one Armored Avenger down, the other''s still up for adventure overseas and underwater - but Roxxon Oil''s backing a new opponent who''ll have Stark climbing the walls and breaking through them, just in time to face Justin Hammer''s B-Team: Beetle, Blizzard and Blacklash! Featuring Spymaster and the Ghost!

Collects Uncanny X-Men #450-454. The X-Men investigate a series of mysterious murders in New York City. All the victims seem to have been cut to pieces by blades... Adamantium blades! But if Wolverine didn''t murder these people, then who did?! Plus: While on assignment to track down missing teammate Sage, the X-Men discover more than they bargained for: the birth of a newer and deadlier Hellfire Club!

Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #6-10. Spidey''s arch-foe Doctor Octopus is sporting an updated new look and a new plan to ruin the wall-crawler''s life once and for all. Doc Ock gives him an ultimatum: for the safe release of the Palestinian ambassador he''s holding hostage, Spider-Man must reveal his secret identity to the entire world! International intrigue and web-spinning action combine as Spider-Man''s newest movie menace ups the ante on their long-time rivalry.

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #509-514. Holy! Looks like-! It can''t be...is it? A stunning new evil emerges to stalk Peter Parker as the biggest Spider-Man event in years rocks the wall-crawler''s world! The worst defeat that Peter Parker ever endured - a moment frozen in the minds of Spider-Man fans everywhere - was supposed to be far in his past. But now, two villains - ripped, perhaps, directly from that very moment - have emerged and they threaten to destroy everything that he holds dear!

In order to save his beloved homeworld of Zenn-La, Norrin Radd sacrificed himself, becoming the herald of Galactus. Upon coming to Earth, he rediscovered his humanity and betrayed his world-devouring master. Now bound to his new home, this protector of purity wages war against the ultimate evil. Collects Silver Surfer (Vol. 1) #1-6