Posted December 4-11, 2011 | Updated March 19, 2013 | April 2, 2013 | August 22, 2015

X-Men 5

Issue 5 is our first glimpse of another classic Marvel HQ - Magneto's asteroid base.

Alas, many years later, this hideout will be destroyed, rather unceremoniously I might add, in the pages of the New Mutants.

It's the Toad who gets to tangle with the X-Men. He's out of costume here because he was disguised as an athlete.

The fight is soon joined by the other 'evil' mutants. The issue takes us from the streets of New York to Magneto's asteroid base with the X-Men on the attack. We also get a first glimpse of a rift between the Brotherhood.

A rift that will result in Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch jumping sides and joining the Avengers.

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