Planet X (comics)
| "Planet X" | |
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Cover of New X-Men vol. 1, 147 (Nov, 2003).Art by Phil Jimenez.
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| Publication date | November 2003 – February 2004 |
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| Title(s) | New X-Men #146-150 |
| Main character(s) | List of X-Men members |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Grant Morrison |
| Penciller(s) | Phil Jimenez |
| Inker(s) | Andy Lanning |
| Letterer(s) |
Rus Wooton Chris Eliopoulos |
| Colorist(s) | Chris Chuckry |
| Planet X | ISBN |
"Planet X" is 2004 storyline published by Marvel Comics that ran from New X-Men #146-150. The story is the penultimate arc of Grant Morrison's run as writer on the X-Men, and features the return of Magneto and the death of Jean Grey again.
Coming off the heels of the "Assault on Weapon Plus" storyline, Jean Grey, Beast, and Emma Frost leave the X-Mansion while Xorn forces the newest member of the "Special Class", Dust, to attack Professor X and destroy Cerebra. Confronting Xavier, Xorn imprisons Dust in a jar to keep her from helping the professor, and then removes his mask, to reveal that he is Magneto in disguise.
Magneto, enjoying the lack of progress Xavier has made in improving mutantkind's lot since his "death" (partly due to his manipulations), has begun to teach his militant anti-human philosophy to the Special Class while indulging in the mutant-power enhancing drug Kick, supplied to him by his helper, Esme of the Stepford Cuckoos. He also reveals that he (Magneto) has been responsible for restoring Xavier's mobility via reprogramming the nanite Sentinels inserted into Xavier's body by Cassandra Nova and shuts them down and places the once more crippled Xavier in a glass tank, in a state of suspended animation. Magneto, surrounded by his followers and original Brotherhood member Toad, takes over New York City. Magneto lays waste to the city and engages in multiple acts of mass murder, killing thousands of humans trapped in the city. Magneto also reveals his grand scheme: reversing Earth's magnetic field and remake the planet as "Planet X" in which mutants, the possessors of the "X-gene", ruled over ordinary humans.
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