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Michael Mallory is an internationally recognized authority on twentieth-century popular culture and the author of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe, and X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe. He has written some 400 articles for newspapers and magazines, including several on the monster films of Universal Pictures, for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Scarlet Street, and Millimeter. Stephen Sommers is the director of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe tells the story of this unique band of Marvel comics’ heroes from their creation in 1963 to the present as one of the globe’s hottest franchises. This colorful, lavishly illustrated volume also traces how the characters have been adapted into the media of television and film, including the groundbreaking 1992 animated series and blockbuster feature films, including X-Men III: The Last Stand.

Foreword 10

Mutants Among Us 12

The Birth of a Legend 26

X-Men Revitalized 60

The Dark Side of Mutantcy 104

It Can Happen Here 120

The World of X-Men 130

Mutants in the Media 150

The Age of Mutants 208

Alternate Realities and Strange Worlds 252

Days of Future: Future 272

Chronology/Index 280