Published by MARVEL
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by ROGER CRUZ
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
For millions of years, mankind’s place on Earth was unchallenged… until five young people paved the way for a new kind of human. While students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman taught the world what it meant to be X-Men. These are the hidden stories of the team that laid the foundation of a mutant dynasty!
32 pgs./Rated A …$2.99
On Sale – 9/20/07

X-Men: First Class Reveals Secrets of the Original X-Men

Over 40 years ago, the world was introduced to a team of mutant superheroes that would change the world forever – the X-Men. Learn more about their beginnings, for before they were Astonishing, they were the X-Men: First Class.

Written by Jeff Parker with art by Roger Cruz and stunning covers by Marko Djurdjevic, X-Men: First Class is an 8-issue limited-series starring the original mutants: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, and Beast.

Today, they are battle-hardened super-heroes who have saved the world many times over. But originally they started out as students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters and X-Men First Class tells the story of how 5 teenagers became the most popular team in comics, the X-Men.

Do not miss X-Men: First Class #1, featuring early tales of your favorite X-Men, learning how to protect a world that hates and fears them.