New Mutants | |
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The New Mutants Volume 3 #1 (April 2009). Clockwise from top left: Warlock, Sunspot, Cannonball, Danielle Moonstar, Magma, Karma, Magik, & Cypher, drawn by Diogenes Neves
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (December 1982) |
Created by |
Chris Claremont (writer) Bob McLeod (artist) |
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Base(s) | Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Ship |
Member(s) |
Cable (trainer) Magneto (trainer) Professor X (trainer) Bird-Brain Blink Boom-Boom Cannonball Rusty Collins Cypher Domino Feral Gosamyr Karma Magik Magma Mirage Rictor Shatterstar Skids Sprite Sunspot Warlock Warpath Wolfsbane |
Roster | |
See: List of New Mutants members |
New Mutants (Training Squad) | |
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The New Mutants from New X-Men: Academy X #2. Art by Randy Green.
From left to right: Danielle Moonstar, Surge, Prodigy, Wind Dancer, Elixir, Wallflower. |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | New X-Men: Academy X #2 (August 2004) |
Created by |
Nunzio DeFilippis Christina Weir Keron Grant Randy Green |
In-story information | |
Base(s) | Xavier Institute for Higher Learning |
Member(s) |
Danielle Moonstar (advisor) Elixir Icarus Prodigy Surge Wallflower Wind Dancer Wither |
New Mutants | |
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Variant cover to New Mutants, vol. 3 #1. Art by Bob McLeod.
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | New Mutants #1 (2009) |
Created by |
Zeb Wells (writer) Diogenes Neves (artist) |
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Base(s) |
Utopia 1128 Mission Street, San Francisco |
Member(s) |
Former Members: Blink Cannonball Cypher Karma Magik Magma Mirage Sunspot Warlock X-Man |
The New Mutants is a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They have been the main characters of three successive comic book series, which were spin-offs of the X-Men franchise.
The first team of New Mutants characters was created by Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod. They first appeared in 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and are subsequently featured in their own title from 1983 until 1991. Like its parent title, The New Mutants highlighted interpersonal and group conflict as well as action and adventure, and featured a large ensemble cast, including the introduction of cult figure Deadpool. With the end of the first series, the characters were relaunched as X-Force in a new, eponymous series.
The second New Mutants series, launched in 2003, featured a new group of teenage mutants. Unlike the original New Mutants, they were part of a huge cast of students at the Xavier Institute. In 2004, it was relaunched as New X-Men: Academy X, after which the central group was formally dubbed the "New Mutants." In the aftermath of the "M-Day" crossover storyline in late 2005, the remaining students were merged into one junior team, the New X-Men.
The third New Mutants series, reuniting most of the original team, was launched in May 2009.
A New Mutants film was announced in May 2015.
The first appearance of The New Mutants can be found in the Marvel Graphic Novel #4, from December 1982.
By the early 1980s, Uncanny X-Men (under the authorship of Chris Claremont) had become one of the comic book industry's most successful titles, prompting Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter to launch The New Mutants, the first of several X-Men spin-offs. X-Men editor Louise Simonson recalled "Neither Chris [Claremont] or I really wanted to do it. We wanted X-Men to be special and by itself, but Shooter told us that if we didn't come up with a new 'mutant' book, someone else would." The name was a modification of Stan Lee's original name for the X-Men, "The Mutants".