Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1

Aug 2025 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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“Marvel Girl”

About this Issue

Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 (June 2025) marks the first time Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) appears alongside Jean Grey during the events of the original Dark Phoenix Saga, using that pairing to crystallize a pivotal development in Kamala's ongoing dual Inhuman/mutant identity arc — specifically, her hard-light mutant construct power taking on its permanent purple coloration, directly aligning her comics abilities with her MCU counterpart's for the first time. The issue also carries anniversary weight: it arrives in 2025, exactly 45 years after Uncanny X-Men #137 concluded the original Claremont/Byrne Dark Phoenix Saga, making it a deliberate act of commemoration as well as continuity-building. As the second chapter in the five-part Giant-Size X-Men: Second Genesis event, it serves as the narrative hinge on which Kamala's mastery of her mutant power turns, with consequences that carry through to the event's finale. By weaving a present-day character's emotional journey — shame, newly awakened power, fear of losing control — into one of the medium's most discussed tragic arcs, the issue extends the thematic conversation around Jean Grey's fate to a new generation of readers.

writer Jackson Lanzing · writer Collin Kelly · artist, inker, colorist Rod Reis · letterer VC's Clayton Cowles · cover Adam Kubert

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History

The event's basic architecture — sending Kamala Khan back in time through five landmark X-Men eras across five one-shots — originated with X-line editor Tom Brevoort, who brought the framework to writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (the team behind the then-concluding NYX series) with the specific issues and eras already mapped out. For the Dark Phoenix chapter, Brevoort and the writers paired Kelly and Lanzing with artist Rod Reis, whose painted, expressionistic style was suited to the cosmic and emotional register the story required; Steve Foxe and Lucas Werneck contributed the Revelations backup. The entire five-part event was conceived as Marvel's primary publishing celebration of the 50th anniversary of the original Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975) by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, with this issue also absorbing the 45th anniversary of the Dark Phoenix Saga's conclusion.

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Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (main story); Steve Foxe (Revelations backup). Interior art by Rod Reis (main) and Lucas Werneck (backup). Main cover by Adam Kubert with colors by Laura Martin. Edited by Tom Brevoort; Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski.
This is the second of five one-shots in the Giant-Size X-Men: Second Genesis event (issue #3 of 6 in the full event reading order, including the FCBD prelude), celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975) and coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the Dark Phoenix Saga's conclusion in Uncanny X-Men #137 (June 1980).
The main story — titled 'Marvel Girl' — drops Kamala Khan and a time-displaced Legion directly into the events of Uncanny X-Men #135 and the surrounding Dark Phoenix chapters, with Kamala teaming up with Jean Grey at the height of the Phoenix Force's possession.
Key character development: Kamala's hard-light mutant construct power, initially manifested in gold/yellow during Giant-Size X-Men #1, takes on its purple, crystal-like coloration in this issue's climax — mirroring her MCU hard-light abilities from the Disney+ Ms. Marvel series and establishing a lasting comics/screen visual continuity for the character.
The Revelations backup story by Steve Foxe and Lucas Werneck reveals previously undisclosed lore about the bond between Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Jean Grey, functioning both as period-set character work and as a setup for present-day continuity developments.
Multiple cover variants were produced, including a 1:25 Rod Reis variant, a 1:50 Ivan Talavera virgin variant, a standard Ivan Talavera variant, a Lee Garbett variant, and a Stephanie Hans spoiler variant (also available as a Comic Mint/KRS Comics virgin edition). A second printing was subsequently issued.
The full event was collected in the trade paperback Giant-Size X-Men: Second Genesis Revisited (Penguin Random House / Marvel), which gathers all five one-shots plus the Free Comic Book Day 2025: Fantastic Four/Giant-Size X-Men #1 prelude story.