Origins

• Writer - Howard Mackie
• Penciler - Terry Dodson
• Inker - Klaus Janson
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Matt Web
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

After Xavier: The Age of Apocalypse

Summary

  Magneto's attitude changed when Xavier died saving his life. He created an isolated base on Wundagore Mountain, where he trains his X-Men in the Killing Zone, his version of the Danger Room. He presses them hard, so they will survive. He intro-duces the new recruit Logan and tells Jean to learn to telepathically control his ber-serker rages.

  Mutant hysteria has grown in the United States, and then Apocalypse's herald Can-dra flies Ship over Manhattan with a warning.

  Mystique gives Rogue to Magneto to keep her safe (Polaris had tried to abduct her, but she absorbed her power).

  Apocalypse sends his Horsemen to the nu-clear base Cape Citadel, and Magneto real-izes the struggle has begun. Ship decloaks and fires at the Blackbird.

  Nemesis attacks the school; Rogue and Wanda defend it.

  Sabretooth realizes Apocalypse plans to launch the nukes, which is more than he bargained for. Apocalypse orders him killed, but then the X-Men arrive, so Can-dra releases him for the duration of the battle. He duels with Logan; Jean goes up against Candra, another psi; Magneto goes to stop Gideon, but he uses his own power against him and starts the countdown. Ororo uses lightning against a human be-ing for the first time and worries that she may have killed Death. Bobby and Piotr take out War. Logan severs Sabretooth's spine. Magneto overloads Gideon, explod-ing him, and the magnetic pulse destroys the computers.

  Apocalypse congratulates the X-Men. He collects his team, leaving Sabretooth be-hind as a failure. He arms Ship's weapons, but Magneto blasts first and destroys them.

  Magneto tells his team, "He is the reason I have pulled you all together." They return home to find Wanda has been killed.

  Note: following are pin-ups of Beast; Mag-neto and Rogue; Weapon X and Jean Grey; Factor X; the X-Men; Gambit and the X-Ternals; Generation Next; and Angel.