num_pages: 472
description: The end of an era for the X-Men! The original team now called X-Factor takes center stage when Proteus returns from the grave. But when Apocalypse strikes infecting Cyclops' son Nathan with a deadly virus Cyclops must make a bitter sacrifice! And the current X-Men return to Earth to find that Professor X's old foe the Shadow King has risen - and taken over Muir Island! It will take X-Factor and the X-Men's combined strength to triumph - and when the dust clears the two teams will become one! An uncanny new era begins as the reunited X-Men go back to basics - beginning with a deadly confrontation with Magneto and his fanatical Acolytes! Collecting X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #15 X-FACTOR (1986) #65-70 UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #278-280 X-MEN (1991) #1-3 and material from NEW MUTANTS ANNUAL #7 and X-FACTOR ANNUAL #6.
language: English
title: X-Men Epic Collection, Vol. 19: Mutant Genesis
publisher: Marvel