Giant-Size Age of Apocalypse #1

History

The five-issue Giant-Size event was conceived by editor Tom Brevoort and handed to the writing team of Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, who built a through-line story centered on Kamala Khan being dragged through landmark X-Men eras by an unstable Legion. Marvel simultaneously tapped Jeph Loeb — one of the original Age of Apocalypse writers — to contribute a 'Revelations' backup strip to this specific installment, reuniting him with the Earth-295 universe he helped create three decades earlier and pairing him with Eisner-nominated artist Simone Di Meo, who was already committed to the follow-on X-Men of Apocalypse miniseries. The main story art was handled by C.F. Villa and Rafael Loureiro, with Edgar Delgado on colors, VC Clayton Cowles and Richard Starkings on letters, and Adam Kubert supplying the primary cover with Laura Martin on colors.

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• Released June 25, 2025 (cover date: August 2025); the third of five interconnected one-shots in the 'Giant-Size X-Men: Second Genesis Revisited' event marking the 50th anniversary of the original Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975).
• Main story written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing; interior art by C.F. Villa and Rafael Loureiro; colors by Edgar Delgado; cover by Adam Kubert with Laura Martin colors; edited by Tom Brevoort.
• Backup 'Revelations' story written by Jeph Loeb — a co-writer of the original 1995 Age of Apocalypse — with art and colors by Simone Di Meo, serving as an in-continuity prelude to the separate X-Men of Apocalypse (2025) six-part event series marking AoA's 30th anniversary.
• The story is set on the night before and during the final battle depicted in the original X-Men: Omega #1, placing Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) and Legion inside Earth-295 at the moment of its nuclear endgame.
• AoA versions of Blink (Clarice Ferguson, Earth-295) and Sabretooth (Victor Creed, Earth-295) appear as supporting characters; both originated in the 1995 crossover and are not first appearances here. The AoA Logan (Weapon X) appears in cameo.
• Rogue (Anna Marie Lehnsherr, Earth-295) serves a pivotal narrative role, acting as a mentor figure who teaches Ms. Marvel the meaning of mutant identity — the thematic core of the main story.
• The issue carries a Rated T+ designation and runs 48 pages, with variant covers by Tony S. Daniel (1:25), Ivan Talavera (1:50 virgin), Kael Ngu, Simone Di Meo (spoiler variant), and Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau (1:100 virgin).
• The entire five-issue event, including this issue, was collected in the hardcover trade paperback Giant-Size X-Men: Second Genesis Revisited, published by Penguin Random House / Marvel.

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