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.
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
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. Read More