New X-Men #139

Name: New X-Men #139
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Jun 2003 · Marvel · 2.25 USD; 3.75 CAD

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“Murder at the Mansion 1 of 3: Shattered”

★ 1st appearance — Winston Frost★ 1st appearance — Hazel Frost

About this Issue

New X-Men #139 opens the 'Murder at the Mansion' arc — Grant Morrison's fifth story arc in his transformative run — by detonating one of the most emotionally charged confrontations in modern X-Men history: Jean Grey, wielding the full force of the Phoenix, tears through Emma Frost's psychic defenses after catching her in a telepathic affair with Cyclops. The issue simultaneously delivers the first substantive origin for Emma Frost in the main Marvel continuity, peeling back her Hellfire Club backstory and family history in ways that would shape every subsequent portrayal of the character. Its closing image — Emma discovered shattered in her diamond form — instantly reframed her from rival to victim and set up a whodunit structure unprecedented in X-Men storytelling. The psychic-affair triangle established here became the emotional backbone of the book's final act and permanently reconfigured the Scott Summers/Emma Frost relationship for every X-Men writer who followed.

writer Grant Morrison · artist Phil Jimenez · inker Andy Lanning · colorist Dave McCaig · letterer Chris Eliopoulos · cover Phil Jimenez, Tim Townsend

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History

The issue is part of Grant Morrison's sweeping 2001–2004 overhaul of the X-Men franchise, a run editor-in-chief Joe Quesada recruited Morrison to lead after their high-profile DC work on JLA and The Invisibles. Phil Jimenez — whose detail-dense, figure-rich style was a deliberate tonal shift from the scratchy expressionism of regular series artist Frank Quitely — came aboard starting with this arc, giving the 'Murder at the Mansion' chapters a glossier, more classical superhero feel. Morrison had originally planned to use Colossus in the role Emma Frost ultimately occupied on the team, but steered toward Emma after Piotr's recent in-continuity death made that path feel redundant; the psychic-affair subplot grew organically from that pivot and became, in the view of several chroniclers, a structural metaphor for the tension between the X-Men's storied past and an uncertain future. Mike Marts edited the issue, with Mike Raicht as associate editor and Nova Ren Suma as assistant editor, under Quesada as editor-in-chief.

Trivia · 8 facts

Title: 'Murder at the Mansion, Part 1: Shattered' — first chapter of the three-issue 'Murder at the Mansion' arc (New X-Men #139–141).
Written by Grant Morrison; pencils by Phil Jimenez; inks by Andy Lanning; colors by Dave McCaig; letters by Chris Eliopoulos. Cover art also by Phil Jimenez (inked by Tim Townsend on the cover).
On-sale date: April 16, 2003; cover-dated June 2003.
First substantive in-continuity origin of Emma Frost, showing her family background (neglectful father, pill-dependent mother, siblings including Christian, Cordelia, and Adrienne Frost) and her rise through the Hellfire Club — delivered via Jean Grey's Phoenix-powered forced psychic excavation.
First cameo appearance of Christian Frost (Emma's brother), depicted in flashback.
Jean Grey, channeling the Phoenix Force, confronts Emma about her telepathic affair with Cyclops; at the issue's end, Emma is found shattered into fragments in her diamond form, leaving every X-Man a murder suspect.
Cyclops departs the Xavier Mansion at the end of the issue, a narrative rupture that drives the next several story arcs in Morrison's run.
Reprinted in: New X-Men Ultimate Collection Vol. 2 (2008); New X-Men by Grant Morrison Book 6 (2011); New X-Men Omnibus (2006); New X-Men Modern Era Epic Collection #2 — New Worlds (2025); Phoenix: The Death & Rebirth of Jean Grey Omnibus (2025). Exists in a Newsstand edition variant.