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Xmen history: the Early Years
Xmen History: the 70'es
Xmen History: the 80'es
History of the Xmen: the 90'es
In 1991 Marvel revised the entire lineup of X-Books, centered on the launch of a second Xmen series, simply titled Xmen. With the return of Xavier and the original Xmen to the team, the bloated roster was split into two strike forces: Cyclops' "Blue Team" (chronicled in the pages of Xmen) and Storm's "Gold Team" (in Uncanny Xmen).
Its first issues were written by longstanding Xmen writer Chris Claremont and drawn and co-plotted by superstar artist Jim Lee. Another new X-book released at the time was X-Force featuring the characters from the The New Mutants led by Cable written by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. Internal friction soon split the X-Books' creative teams. Claremont left after only three issues of Xmen due to clashes with Lee and the Marvel editors, thus ending his sixteen-year run as Xmen writer. In his void, Fabian Nicieza and Scott Lobdell would take over the majority of writing duties for the Xmen. Months later, Lee and Rob Liefeld would leave Marvel with several other popular artists (including former Xmen artists Marc Silvestri and Whilce Portacio) to form Image Comics. Their major grievance had been Marvel's heavy merchandising of their work with little compensation. Jim Lee's Xmen became the definitive Xmen for the 90s, and his designs would be the basis for much of the Xmen animated series and action figure line as well as several Capcom video games.
The 1990s saw an even greater number of X-books with numerous ongoing series and miniseries running concurrently. Notable story arcs of this time are the "The X-Tinction Agenda" in 1990, "The Muir Island Saga" in 1991, "X-Cutioner's Song" in 1992, "Fatal Attractions" in 1993, "Phalanx Covenant" in 1994, "Legion Quest"/"Age of Apocalypse" in 1995, "Onslaught" in 1996 and "Operation: Zero Tolerance" in 1997. Some new characters were introduced and became instant hits (Bishop, Cable, Gambit and Jubilee), but many of the later additions to the team came and went (Joseph, Maggott, Marrow, Cecilia Reyes, and a new Thunderbird). Xavier's New Mutants grew up and became X-Force, and the next generation of students began with Generation X, featuring Jubilee and other teenage mutants led and schooled by Banshee and former villainess Emma Frost at her Massachusetts Academy. In 1998 Excalibur and X-Factor ended and the latter was replaced with Mutant X, starring Havok stranded in a parallel universe. Marvel launched a number of solo series, including Bishop, Cable, Deadpool, Gambit, and X-Man, but none would survive the decade.
Xmen History: the 00'es
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