X-Men: Children of the Atom (comics)

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X-Men: Children of the Atom
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Cover of the 1st issue
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
Genre
Publication date1999
No. of issues6
Main character(s) X-Men
Creative team
Written by Joe Casey
Artist(s) Steve Rude, Paul Smith, Esad Ribić

X-Men: Children of the Atom is a six-issue comic book limited series released in 1999, retelling the origins of the X-Men.

The first issue is about the teen years of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast and Angel, while the mutants have just appeared in the news. Professor X is pretending to be a school coordinator, in order to help the young mutants.

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