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'X-Men by Chris Claremont: Prelude to a Future Past' #1 announced

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‘X-Men by Chris Claremont: Prelude to a Future Past’ #1 announced

This July, a new one-shot collects the groundbreaking ‘Days of Future Past’ story arc alongside Chris Claremont’s special ‘Days of Future Past’ prelude.

Marvel Comics has announced a new one-shot, X-Men by Chris Claremont: Prelude to a Future Past #1, written by Chris Claremont featuring a prelude story once only available in the Marvel Made Paragon Collection: Chris Claremont, a limited edition prestige hardcover. The one-shot arrives in comic shops on July 2nd.

With art by Salvador Larroca, discover at last how the surviving X-Men saved one of their own, Rachel Summers, from her torment as a Hound – and find out which surprising faces had a vital part to play in the mutant resistance! Presented alongside the original saga in which Claremont and John Byrne unveiled their darkly dystopian vision of the future Marvel Universe – where Sentinels stalk the Earth, and the X-Men are humanity’s only hope…until they die! The giant-sized one-shot will also include bonus materials celebrating Chris Claremont’s fifty-plus years in comics!

Check out the cover below.

X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT: PRELUDE TO A FUTURE PAST #1

New York, NY— April 4, 2025 — In 2020, legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont revisited his groundbreaking “Days of Future Past” storyline in a special prelude story that was only available in the Marvel Made Paragon Collection: Chris Claremont, a limited edition prestige hardcover. This July, this rare story will finally be published alongside the all-time classic that inspired it in X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT: PRELUDE TO A FUTURE PAST #1!

Revisit the nightmarish world of tomorrow that is Days of Future Past in a revelatory prelude by the legendary scribe and illustrated by his X-TREME X-MEN collaborator, Salvador Larroca! Discover at last how the surviving X-Men saved one of their own, Rachel Summers, from her torment as a Hound – and find out which surprising faces had a vital part to play in the mutant resistance! Presented alongside the original saga in which Claremont and John Byrne unveiled their darkly dystopian vision of the future Marvel Universe – where Sentinels stalk the Earth, and the X-Men are humanity’s only hope…until they die! The giant-sized one-shot will also include bonus materials celebrating Chris Claremont’s fifty-plus years in comics!

Check out the cover and preorder X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT: PRELUDE TO A FUTURE PAST #1 at your local comic shop today! For more information, visitMarvel.com.

X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT: PRELUDE TO A FUTURE PAST #1

Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT & JOHN BYRNE

Penciled by SALVADOR LARROCA & JOHN BYRNE

Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA

Variant Cover by EDWIN GALMON

On Sale 7/2

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