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| X-Men: The Hidden Years | |
|---|---|
| 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.