X-Men: Phoenix Rising (Marvel Premiere Classic) - Hardcover

Stern, Roger; Byrne, John; Layton, Bob; Claremont, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0785139486 ISBN 13: 9780785139485

Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, 2009

Synopsis

The mother of all back-from-the-dead stories! Jean Grey was touched by cosmic power, Jean Grey went insane and destroyed a world, Jean Grey sacrificed her life to save the universe - but it wasn't Jean Grey at all! Mutantkind's most remarkable resurrection, spread across three titles: AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR and X-FACTOR! Guest-starring the Sensational She-Hulk, the Incredible Hercules and more! Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #263, FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #286, X-FACTOR (1986) #1, and material from CLASSIC X-MEN #8 and #43

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage,and the Internet, creatingscripts for everything from sketch comedy toflash-animation. For tenyears, he was the senior writer of the SUPERMAN series, and has writtenhundreds of stories about such diversecharacters as Green Lantern,Supergirl, Starman, and the Justice League for DC Comics; andSpider-Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk,and the Avengers forMarvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.

John Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero. His better-known work includes Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics early in his tenure, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series, and has produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.

Bob Layton has written, drawn, and edited comics for most of the major comic book publishers. Iron Man, Hercules, and X-Factor are just a few of the many books he has worked on.

Chris Claremont wrote the X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2.He has been the co-creator of several top-selling series for MarvelComics, and wrote the Star Trek twenty-fifth-anniversary graphic novel Debt of Honor for DC Comics. His debut novel was Firstflight, to which he wrote two sequels, Grounded and Sundowner.

Review:

"Jean Grey alive? Find out what happened to her after the infamous Dark Phoenix Saga. What a great collection of comics." -- J.M. Guillemette

About this edition

• Publisher: Marvel Enterprises
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0785139486
• ISBN 13: 9780785139485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 129
• Illustrator: Buscema John, Guice Jackson