Onslaught: Epilogue #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeOnslaught: Epilogue #1 serves as the official closing chapter of one of Marvel's most sprawling 1990s crossover events, shifting the narrative lens from bombastic action to moral reckoning: Charles Xavier, stripped of his powers and surrendered to government custody, must sit with the catastrophic human cost of his failure. The issue is the first appearance of Nina, the alpha-class Mannite child whose abilities and relationship with Xavier planted seeds for the subsequent Operation: Zero Tolerance storyline — making this one-shot a genuine hinge point between two consecutive X-Men event eras. It is also the only solo title to dramatize Xavier's immediate post-Onslaught imprisonment under Bastion, a status quo that would echo through X-Men titles well into 1998–1999.
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Larry Hama — best known for his long run on Wolverine and G.I. Joe — was tapped to write this coda under editor Mark Powers and editor-in-chief Bob Harras, with penciller Randy Green handling art duties. The issue was released to shelves on December 11, 1996, despite carrying a February 1997 cover date, slotting it as the direct bridge between the Onslaught crossover's conclusion and the editorial slow-burn build toward Operation: Zero Tolerance. That follow-up event had originally been conceived by Scott Lobdell to launch immediately after Onslaught, but Marvel editorial held it in reserve for roughly a year, and this Epilogue one-shot was part of the deliberate connective groundwork — establishing Bastion's facility and Xavier's captivity in a quieter, character-driven register before the larger storm.
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- Published as a one-shot (single issue, no ongoing series); released December 11, 1996 with a February 1997 cover date.
- Written by Larry Hama; pencilled by Randy Green; inked by Jon Holdredge and Hilary Barta; edited by Mark Powers under editor-in-chief Bob Harras.
- Official conclusion to the Onslaught crossover event, as designated on the Grand Comics Database and in Marvel's own reading-order guides.
- First appearance of Nina (prisoner M-9), an alpha-class Mannite with telekinesis, telepathy, and the ability to phase through walls — later confirmed as the first individual Mannite to appear in Marvel continuity.
- First appearance of Dr. Ingrid Thysson, the psychologist assigned by Bastion to evaluate Xavier.
- Charles Xavier appears throughout as prisoner M-13, held without his powers in an abandoned Hulkbuster Base under Bastion's authority — establishing the captivity status quo that feeds directly into Operation: Zero Tolerance (1997).
- Exists in both a Direct Edition and a Newsstand variant.
- Reprinted in: X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus (2015); X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic Book 4 (2008/2009); X-Men Milestones: Onslaught (2019/2020); X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught #3 (2021); and a German edition in X-Men Special (Panini Deutschland) #5 (1998/1999).
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Reprinted in Gli Incredibili X-Men #91 (1998), X-Men Special #5 (1998), X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic #4 (2009), X-Men / Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus #[nn] (2015), X-Men Milestones: Onslaught #[nn] (2019), X-Men / Avengers: Onslaught #3 (2021)
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