1 ANNUAL ROSENBERG FOREMAN CHARALAMPIDIS RATED T+ $4.99US 0 0 1 1 1 7 5 9 6 0 6 0 9 1 3 1 7 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! NOTE: THE EVENTS OF THIS ISSUE TAKE PLACE AFTER PHOENIX RESURRECTION #5 AND ASTONISHING X-MEN #12. PREVIOUSLY IN ASTONISHING X-MEN... PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, FOUNDER AND LEADER OF THE X-MEN, WAS DEAD. KILLED BY A PHOENIX-POSSESSED CYCLOPS, XAVIER’S ABSENCE IS STILL FELT TO THIS DAY. IN REALITY, HE WAS TRAPPED IN A BRUTAL, PROLONGED DUEL WITH THE SHADOW KING IN THE ASTRAL PLANE. WITH THE HELP OF A TEAM OF X-MEN, CHARLES’ CONSCIOUSNESS ESCAPED INTO THE BODY OF FANTOMEX, WHICH HE USED TO ERASE THE TEAM’S MEMORIES OF HIS NEWFOUND EXISTENCE. CHARLES, NOW CALLING HIMSELF “X,” IS EMBRACING A NEW DESTINY… JEAN GREY, ONE OF THE ORIGINAL X-MEN AND HOST OF THE PHOENIX FORCE, WAS DEAD, KILLED IN BATTLE BY ONE OF THEIR GREATEST FOES. JEAN’S DEATH LEFT A CLOUD OVER THE X-MEN THAT NEVER PASSED. RECENTLY, THE X-MEN HAD DISCOVERED THAT JEAN HAD BEEN REVIVED BY THE PHOENIX. NOW, SHE BEGINS A NEW CHAPTER IN HER LIFE, ONE IN WHICH HER HUSBAND, CYCLOPS, IS NO LONGER ALIVE… WHO WE ARE WRITER MATTHEW ROSENBERG ARTIST TRAVEL FOREMAN COLOR ARTIST JIM CHARALAMPIDIS LETTERER VC’s CLAYTON COWLES COVER ARTIST ROD REIS VARIANT COVER ARTIST JEE-HYUNG LEE GRAPHIC DESIGNERS EDITOR X-MEN GROUP EDITOR JAY BOWEN & ANTHONY GAMBINO DARREN SHAN JORDAN D. WHITE EDITOR IN CHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER C.B. CEBULSKI JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE SPECIAL THANKS TO ANNALISE BISSA X-MEN CREATED BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY ASTONISHING X-MEN ANNUAL No. 1, October 2018. Published as a One-Shot by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. © 2018 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $4.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOHN NEE, Publisher; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Officer; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID BOGART, SVP of Business Affairs & Operations, Publishing & Partnership; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Sales & Marketing, Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; DAN EDINGTON, Managing Editor; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Custom Solutions & Integrated Advertising Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 07/20/2018 and 07/31/2018 by LSC COMMUNICATIONS INC., GLASGOW, KY, USA. .