(W) Christos N. Gage (A/CA) Neal Adams. The legend returns! From venerated comics artist Neal Adams (X-MEN* AVENGERS) and fan-favorite writer Christos Gage (AVENGERS ACADEMY) comes the thrilling secret history of Marvel's most dangerous mutants. Long before Charles Xavier built his School for Gifted Youngsters and founded the X-Men* a team of genetic outcasts with unique powers banded together to protect themselves and those like them from a world of fear and hatred. The astonishing tale of a previous generation of mutants is revealed as Wolverine and Sabretooth lead their recruits in a tooth-and-nail battle for survival featuring Magneto* the frightening new X-villain Virus* the origin of the Sentinal program and the truth behind the bloodiest rivalry in X-Men history! Collecting FIRST X-MEN 1-5.