Paul Smith

Collects The Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) 1st Series #109, 120-121 and 139-140; Machine Man (1978-1981 1st Series) #19; Marvel Two-in-One (1974-1983 1st Series) #83-84; The Incredible Hulk (1962-1999 1st Series) #272, #313 and The Incredible Hulk (1962-1999 1st Series) ANNUAL #8; Alpha Flight (1983-1994 1st Series) #1-29; X-Men/Alpha Flight (1985) #1-2; X-Men/Alpha Flight (1998) #1-2; and material from Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985) Annual #7.

Collects The Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #36-40 and 56, ANNUAL 2001, and Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001). The Avengers learn what too much of a bad thing can be when they face a city of robots and a village of Hulks! And in other international news, Blood Wraith has a BIG problem with Ultron's extermination of Slorenia! Meanwhile, Silverclaw shines and Triathlon triumphs in Kurt Busiek's penultimate Avengers saga! Featuring the villainy of Ultron, Diablo and Kang the Conqueror!

Collects Avengers (1998-2004 3rd Series) #24-56, #1 and ANNUAL 2000-2001, Thunderbolts (1997-2012 Marvel) #42-44, Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000), Maximum Security (2000) #1-3, and Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001). Fan-favorite creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez craft a new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers forge an uneasy alliance with the Thunderbolts to face Count Nefaria - but the true threat comes from the stars as Earth is declared a cosmic maximum-security prison for alien criminals! To save their planet, and contend with hordes of rampaging Hulks and the spawn of Ultron, the Avengers must rebuild their operation bigger and better than ever. But none of it will do any good when the time-spanning Kang the Conqueror wages war on the present day...and wins! Now, Captain America and a small band of rebels may be the world's only hope for freedom!

All aboard the Danish Princess! Doc Strange and Black Knight must protect the passengers on a luxury cruise from the arcane evils of Umar.

Storm struggles desperately against the Brood embryo which gestates within her. She's in for the fight of her life. If she loses, the X-Men will perish and the Earth will be doomed.

It's the final battle between the sinister Brood and the Uncanny X-Men. But when the Earth heroes learn a startling secret about their mentor, Professor X, they discover that they may already be too late to save their homeworld. First appearance of Lockheed.

The X-Men return home to Xavier's Institute to find they've been replaced. But their skirmish with the New Mutants is the least of their concerns. Charles Xavier has been impregnated with a Brood Queen. In order to save mankind, the X-Men may be forced to take the life of their beloved mentor.

Professor X has ordered Kitty to leave the ranks of the X-Men, a position she feels she's earned, and join the ranks of the neophyte heroes in training the New Mutants. Needless to say, Kitty is not happy about her mentor's decision. Wolverine begins a leave of absence from the team. Meanwhile, Xavier attempts to adjust to his new body... a body that enables him to walk! Plus, the deadly Sidrian Hunters return (last seen in Uncanny X-Men #154). And in Alaska, Scott runs into a very familiar face.

Angel has been kidnaped by a fanatical group of mutants that live below the streets of Manhattan. Now the X-Men race against the clock to save the life of the former teammate, but are they ready for what they find in the tunnels of the Morlocks? NOTE: 1st appearance of Callisto and the Morlocks.

In Alaska, Scott finds himself falling for Madelyne Pryor, a woman who bares an uncanny resemblance to the deceased Jean Grey. Meanwhile, Storm challenges Callisto in a duel to the death for the right to lead the Morlocks, an underground society of mutants who live apart from the humans who fear and hate them. Plus, Rogue leaves the brotherhood of Evil Mutants and makes a decision that will change her life forever.