2020 September Solicitation

[DAHX]

EXCALIBUR #12
TINI HOWARD (W) • MARCUS TO (A) • Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR
X OF SWORDS — Secrets of the Book!
With Rictor in his clutches, Apocalypse must survive long enough to begin the ritual he has waited on for eons.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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X-MEN #12
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • LEINIL FRANCIS YU (A/C)
X OF SWORDS — THE SUMMONING BEGINS!
A lead-in to the biggest X-story of the year.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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X OF SWORDS: CREATION #1
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • PEPE LARRAZ (A)
Cover by PEPE LARRAZ & MARK BROOKS
VARIANT COVER BY MIGUEL MERCADO
DESIGN VARIANT COVER BY PEPE LARRAZ
LAUNCH VARIANT COVER BY TBA
Premiere VARIAT COVER BY PEPE LARRAZ
WRAPAROUND VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
BLACK AND WHITE WRAPAROUND VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
X OF SWORDS – CHAPTER 1
A tower. A mission. A gathering of armies.
72 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$6.99

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X-FACTOR #4
LEAH WILLIAMS (W) • CARLOS GOMEZ (A) • Cover by IVAN SHAVRIN
Variant Cover by R.B. SILVA
ANGEL TIMELESS VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS
X OF SWORDS – CHAPTER 2
Death and rebirth. Corruption. A dark discovery.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99

X OF SWORDS HANDBOOK #1
MIKE O’SULLIVAN & THE OHOTMU TEAM (W)
Cover by RON LIM
The dramatic new era for mutantkind takes center stage in the official handbook!
This all-new collection of X-Men-related profiles will bring you up-to-date on Apocalypse, Wolverine (Logan), Magik (Rasputin) and Meggan just in time for X of Swords! This issue includes profiles for Cypher, Moira MacTaggert, two Captains Britain (Brian and Betsy Braddock) and Krakoa itself! Plus: the young Cable (Nathan Summers) and the X-Men!
48 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

CAPTAIN BRITAIN: MARVEL TALES #1
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by HERB TRIMPE, JOHN BYRNE & ALAN DAVIS
Cover by INHYUK LEE
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE -
APR200906
A legendary hero flies the flag for the United Kingdom as we celebrate the legacy of the House of Ideas with the era-spanning MARVEL TALES! In Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe’s incredible CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1976) #1-2, Brian Braddock must choose between the Sword of Might and the Amulet of Right. Only one will transform him into Captain Britain, champion of Albion! Then, Brian takes a trip across the pond and ends up in Spider-Man’s neighborhood — but their first meeting turns downright murderous, courtesy of Arcade, in MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #65-66 — by the fan-favorite team of Claremont and John Byrne! Then, the sword is drawn in EXCALIBUR (1988) #1 as Claremont joins artist Alan Davis to team Captain Britain and his girlfriend Meggan with a trio of ex-X-Men — Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Phoenix — to form the UK’s most offbeat super team! Collecting CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1976) #1-2, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #65-66 and EXCALIBUR (1988) #1.
88 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T …$7.99
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JUGGERNAUT #1 (OF 5)
FABIAN NICIEZA (W) • RON GARNEY (A) • Cover by GEOFF SHAW
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW - MAR200880
VARIANT COVER BY RON GARNEY - MAR200881
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY Werner Roth - MAR200882
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG - MAR200884
BROWN & RED VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE - MAR200883
READY OR ‘NAUT, HERE HE COMES!
A mystic gem. A force of overwhelming power. Nothing can stop the Juggernaut. Except himself. Another building falls. Cain Marko is done letting others pick up the pieces of the things he’s destroyed. Renowned X-scribe Fabian Nicieza (X-FORCE, DEADPOOL) and celebrated artist Ron Garney (CAPTAIN AMERICA, DAREDEVIL) team up to take the unstoppable in a new bold new direction!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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X-FACTOR #3
LEAH WILLIAMS (W)
DAVID BALDEÓN (A)
Cover by IVAN SHAVRIN
DROWNING IN THE STREAM!
Every streamer in the Mojoverse is desperate to get a little of the X-magic on their channel, but all X-Factor wants to do is figure out who murdered a Krakoan citizen.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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HELLIONS #4
ZEB WELLS (W)
STEPHEN SEGOVIA (A/C)
HAVOK STANDS ALONE!
Krakoa’s resident rabble are up against the grand dame of the damned — the Goblin Queen, Madelyne Pryor! Talk about a return that could raise some havoc!
32 PGS./PARENTAL ADVISORY …$3.99
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CABLE #4
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • PHIL NOTO (A/C)
FORCED INTO A CORNER…
Ancient knights from another galaxy are targeting Cable…and he’s got no choice but to give them what they want!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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WOLVERINE #5
BENJAMIN PERCY (W)
VIKTOR BOGDANOVIC (A)
Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Variant Cover by VIKTOR BOGDANOVIC – Order using APR200903
BLOOD CLOCKS!
In the snowbound darkness of the north, Wolverine is the prisoner of Dracula. By forming an unlikely alliance, Logan fights back. Stakes, claws, tricked-out snowmobiles and wintry mayhem await you.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
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MARAUDERS #12
Gerry Duggan (W) • MATTEO LOLLI (A)
Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
RED RECKONING!
The Black King removed the Red Queen from the board…what move will the White Queen make?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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NEW MUTANTS #12
ED BRISSON (W) • MARCO FAILLA (A)
Cover by MIKE DEL MUNDO
The human world never seems to tire of lashing out at Krakoa. The NEW MUTANTS have their ways of striking back.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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X-FORCE #12
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • BAZALDUA (A)
Cover by Dustin weaver
THE CEREBRO SWORD!
After taking on the Flower Cartel, Logan has brought back valuable intel to the mutant CIA. The non-treaty nation of Russia is working to undermine Krakoa — and may be aligned with Xeno. Beast wants Colossus on their side as the first drumbeats of war begin to sound.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
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GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: STORM #1
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W)
RUSSELL DAUTERMAN (A/C)
Variant Cover by JEN BARTEL –
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TIMELESS STORM VARIANT
COVER BY ALEX ROSS
HICKMAN & DAUTERMAN TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN!
In GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: JEAN GREY & EMMA FROST, Hickman and Dauterman took Jean and Emma into Storm’s mind to learn what had happened to her. Now they take the X-Men’s resident goddess to the far end of the world to save herself!
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/ Rated T+ …$4.99
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GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: TRIBUTE TO WEIN & COCKRUM #1
LEN WEIN (W) • ALEX ROSS, KEVIN NOWLAN, CHRIS SAMNEE, MARCUS TO, SIYA OUM, STEPHEN SEGOVIA, MARGUERITE SAUVAGE, CARMEN CARNERO, BERNARD CHANG, AARON KUDER, TAKESHI MIYAZAWA, JUANN CABAL, GURIHIRU, MARK BROOKS, KRIS ANKA, PHIL NOTO, VALERIO SCHITI, LEINIL FRANCIS YU, MATTEO LOLLI, EMA LUPACCHINO, CARLOS GÓMEZ, IBAN COELLO, R.B. SILVA, RAMON ROSANAS, JOSHUA CASSARA, DAVID BALDEÓN, MARCELO FERREIRA, JAVIER GARRÓN, ROD REIS, JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ, MARCO CHECCHETTO, JEN BARTEL, MIKE DEL MUNDO, RAHZZAH, PEPE LARRAZ & MIKE HAWTHORNE (A) • Cover by ADI GRANOV
Variant Cover by TRADD MOORE – Order using MAR200905
WRAPAROUND VARIANT Cover by ED MCGUINNESS – ORDER USING MAR200906
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT Cover by DAVE COCKRUM – Order using MAR200907
VIRGIN HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY DAVE COCKRUM – Order using MAR200908
CELEBRATING THE CLASSIC’S 45TH ANNIVERSARY!
Forty-five years ago, a comic book came out that would change the face of Marvel Comics forever. Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum revamped the X-Men completely, replacing the bulk of the teen heroes with a completely new international cast! The legendary one-shot took comic fans by storm and set the series off in a new direction, setting the stage for the legendary X-scribe Chris Claremont to make them the most popular heroes in the Marvel Universe! Now, 37 of Marvel’s top artists come together to re-create this epic story, each re-drawing one pulse-pounding page in tribute to this Marvel masterpiece!
48 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$5.99
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X–MEN: MARVELS SNAPSHOT #1
JAY EDIDIN & KURT BUSIEK (W)
Tom Reilly (A) • Cover by ALEX ROSS
VARIANT COVER by Tom Reilly -
FEB200903
VARIANT COVER BY MIKE McKone -
FEB200904
The Marvels Snapshot tour through Marvel history continues, showcasing Marvel’s greatest characters through the eyes of ordinary people! Or does it? In this case, the “ordinary person” is teenaged Scott Summers, witnessing the dawn of the Marvel Age from a Nebraska orphanage and wondering what his place in it might be. What was it like to experience the debut of the FF, the Hulk, Iron Man and more? To wish you could be a part of it all? Writer Jay Edidin (Thor: Metal Gods, Jay & Miles X–Plain the X–Men) makes his Marvel comics debut, teamed with Tom Reilly (Immortal Hulk), to tell a story of upheaval and decision that would shape the X–Men (and the Marvel Universe) forever after.
40 PGS./One–Shot/Rated T+ …$4.99
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - MISTER SINISTER #1
Reprinting: Uncanny X-Men (1981) #221
32 PGS./ Rated T...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - WILD CHILD #1
Reprinting: Alpha Flight (1983) #11 (A story), Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #51 (A story)
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - NANNY & ORPHAN MAKER #1
Reprinting: X-Factor (1986) #35
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - EMPATH #1
Reprinting: New Mutants (1983) #16
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - SCALPHUNTER #1
Reprinting: Uncanny X-Men (1981) #211
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - HAVOK #1
Reprinting: X-Men (1963) #58
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - CYPHER #1
Reprinting: New Mutants (1983) #13
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - SOULSWORD #1
Reprinting: Uncanny X-Men (1981) #171
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - MAGIK #1
Reprinting: Magik (1983) #1
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - SATURNYNE #1
Reprinting: Marvel Super Heroes (1979) #380-383 (Captain Britain stories)
32 PGS./ Rated T ...$1.00
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[Captain Nash]

I love how almost every book is giving a good synopsis of the issue while Marauders is intentionally vague and not giving away anything. Count me in, even if I'm only really interested in half the books I'll at least stay on through X Of Swords is over.

Edit Just realized that New Mutants is also fairly vague but in an uninteresting way.

[Nasty_Boys]

So which one is the main cover to X of Swords: Creation?

[DAHX]

So which one is the main cover to X of Swords: Creation?

in the solicitations on CBR it was only the Magik cover. But here's the other one too:

[salarta]

Given Marvel's attitude toward Polaris, I wonder if the Giant-Size X-Men tribute is going to replace Lorna in the story with Jean or some other character.

I'm only being half joking/sarcastic in saying that. There actually was a comic over a decade ago that claimed Jean launched Krakoa into space instead of Lorna, and we've already seen Marvel repeatedly ignore what Lorna went through on Genosha, that she was the second woman to join the X-Men, etc. Not to mention how Children's Crusade had a House of M portrait redrawn to remove Lorna. Using a "tribute" to remove Lorna is the sort of thing I could easily see Marvel doing given how they've treated her.

[DAHX]

And Iceman showing up in Fantastic Four:

FANTASTIC FOUR #24
DAN SLOTT (W) • PACO MEDINA (A) • Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
HUMAN TORCH TIMELESS VARIANT COVER by ALEX ROSS
INVISIBLE WOMAN TIMELESS VARIANT COVER by ALEX ROSS
MISTER FANTASTIC TIMELESS VARIANT COVER by ALEX ROSS
THE THING TIMELESS VARIANT COVER by ALEX ROSS
Hey, remember that time Iceman replaced the Human Torch as a member of the Fantastic Four? No? Well, Johnny Storm sure remembers! And now it’s time to let everybody else in on the secret of the Fantastic Four story we were never supposed to talk about!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

[nx01a]

Dark Gods, please give Illyana a new costume befitting that beautifully ornate Soul Sword.

[JB]

DAHX, you are a gem. Thank you!

I'm so ready for all of this.

[DAHX]

DAHX, you are a gem. Thank you!

I'm so ready for all of this.

There's so much to look forward to, I'm excited!



Also X-FACTOR #4 and GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: TRIBUTE TO WEIN & COCKRUM #1variant covers:




And release calendar:

FOC 08/10/20, ON SALE 09/02/20
BLACK WIDOW #1
CABLE #4
CAPTAIN BRITAIN: MARVEL TALES #1
EMPYRE #6
FANTASTIC FOUR #23
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #6
IMMORTAL HULK #0
MARVEL ZOMBIES: RESURRECTION #1
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #18
NEW MUTANTS #12
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – MISTER SINISTER #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – NANNY & ORPHAN MAKER #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X:MEN – SATURNYNE #1
WOLVERINE #5

FOC 08/17/20, ON SALE 09/09/20
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #48
CAPTAIN MARVEL #21
EMPYRE: AFTERMATH AVENGERS #1
EMPYRE: FALLOUT FANTASTIC FOUR #1
HELLIONS #4
IMMORTAL SHE-HULK #1
MARAUDERS #12
STAR WARS #6
THE RISE OF ULTRAMAN #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – EMPATH #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – SCALPHUNTER #1
WEB OF VENOM: WRAITH #1
X-FACTOR #3
X-FORCE #12

FOC 08/24/20, ON SALE 09/16/20
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: THE SINS OF NORMAN OSBORN #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA #23
EXCALIBUR #12
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: STORM #1
IMMORTAL HULK #37
IRON MAN #1
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #5
THOR #7
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – CYPHER #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – HAVOK #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN – MAGIK #1
VENOM #28
X-MEN #12
X-MEN: MARVELS SNAPSHOTS #1

FOC 08/31/20, ON SALE 09/23/20
DAREDEVIL #22
DOCTOR DOOM #7
FANTASTIC FOUR: ANTITHESIS #2
JUGGERNAUT #1
MAESTRO #2
MARVELS X #5
SPIDER-MAN #4
SPIDER-WOMAN #4
STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTERS #5
TALES OF SUSPENSE #39 FACSIMILE EDITION
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - SATURNYNE #1
TRUE BELIEVERS: X-MEN - SOULSWORD #1
X OF SWORDS: CREATION #1

FOC 09/07/20, ON SALE 09/30/20
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49
AVENGERS #36
FALCON & WINTER SOLDIER #3
FANTASTIC FOUR #24
GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: TRIBUTE TO WEIN & COCKRUM #1
IMMORTAL HULK: THE THRESHING PLACE #1
MARVEL ZOMBIES: RESURRECTION #2
SHANG-CHI #1
STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #4
STRANGE ACADEMY #3
X-FACTOR #4
X OF SWORDS HANDBOOK #1