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X-Men: The Hidden Years | |
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Cover art for X-Men: The Hidden Years #1 | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | December 1999 – September 2001 |
No. of issues | 22 |
Main character(s) | X-Men |
Creative team | |
Written by | John Byrne |
Penciller(s) | John Byrne |
Inker(s) | Tom Palmer |
Letterer(s) | John Byrne |
Colorist(s) | Gregory Wright |
Editor(s) | Bob Harras Jason Liebig Lysa Hawkins Joe Quesada |
X-Men: The Hidden Years was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics, which starred the company's popular superhero team, the X-Men. It was written by John Byrne, with illustrations by Byrne and Tom Palmer.
The series was intended to fill in the team's chronology during the early 1970s when the original X-Men comic (#67–93) was publishing only reprints of earlier issues. According to Byrne, the series "was clearly finite, since [Giant-Size X-Men #1] was out there as an "end point" for my series, but the way I had it worked out, I could have easily done 100 issues or more before I had to send the team off to Krakoa." [1] However, as part of a retooling of the X-Men line, X-Men: The Hidden Years was cancelled, prematurely ending its run with issue #22.
Hidden Years featured the cast of the original X-Men and their villains, with a few appearances by characters who had not otherwise appeared at that point in time, such as Storm and the Phoenix Force.