X Men: Age Of Apocalypse is a comic series published by the Marvel Comic Publishing House. The Age Of Apocalypse has a total of five volumes which were published during 1995-96.
The story starts with an unexpected accident that changes the actual timeline completely. Legion was a mutant who decided to travel back in time to kill Magento, who was reluctantly committing various crimes to destroy humanity.
But he accidentally killed Professor Charles Xavier, his father, due to which Apocalypse was able to attack the world 10 years sooner than the actual timeline.
The story features a mutant, En Sabah Nur, who ruled over ancient Egypt during 3600 BC until he was defeated and entombed alive by the X-Men.
In the story, X-Men are some good people who were considered to be the saviors of the other general people. They were known to fight with the mutants who aimed to destroy the world and conquer their control over it.
Amassed with the power of many other mutants, Apocalypse was the most powerful mutant of all from Marvel’s X-Men universe and was worshiped as a god.
When he woke up after 1000 years, he was disillusioned to find what the world looked like at that time.
He created a team with several other mutants to threaten the world and exercise his control over it. After this series of incidents, some other mutants woke up along with En Sabah Nur and decided to destroy the world.
Age of Apocalypse Comic Books: Reading Order
Age of Apocalypse is a series of 5 volumes of books that revolve around the story of some powerful creatures called mutants that live in the Marvel Universe.
The most powerful of all these creatures was Apocalypse, who wanted to have control over the entire universe by killing and destroying the lives of the people of the Universe. But, when En Sabah Nur, the ruler of Egypt, woke up after many years and saw the situation of the Universe, he thought that humanity had died. Hence, he decided to save the world from the control of these mutants esp,ecially Apocalypse.
Here is the complete reading order of all the five volumes of the Age Of Apocalypse series of comics by the Marvel Universe:
X-Men: Prelude to Age Of Apocalypse:
Just like we see a premier before a movie, this book is also a prelude to the main story of the Age Of Apocalypse.
The story features Legion, son of Charles Xavier who is extremely powerful and wish to change the world, for which he decided to travel back in time to kill Magento and eventually get everything under his control.
This book is written by Jeph Loeb and published by the Marvel Comics. You can get the book at amazon.
X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse (Book 1), The Complete Epic:
This book is the first edition of the Age Of Apocalypse. It reveals the destructions and exploitive plannings that the mutants did to conquer the world and how only X-Men were the last hope of protection for the people.
The first book includes the following collects from the X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse:
- Collects X-Men Blink #1-4 (2001)
- X-Men Chronicles (1995) #1-2
- Tales of the Age of Apocalypse: By the Light (1996)
- Tales of the Age of Apocalypse: Sinister Bloodlines (1997)
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X-Men: The Complete Age Of Apocalypse (Book 2):
In this part, the authors have discussed about the destructions that Apocalypse and his team had already made. By now, they have had their control over half of the Universe but Magento and other X-Men worked hard to fight with them and protect the people.
Following are the collects from this book:
- X-Men: Alpha, Generation Next #1
- Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 #1
- X-Calibre #1
- Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-2
- Weapon X #1-2
- Amazing X-Men #1-2
- Factor X #1-2
- X-Man #1
X-Men: The Complete Age Of Apocalypse (Book 3), Epic Book:
In this part, we will find out how Magento has put his best efforts into getting the mankind free from the reign of Apocalypse but he was planning something else for Magento.
The book contains the following collects:
- X-Calibre #2-3
- Astonishing X-Men (1995) #2-4
- Generation Next #2-3
- X-Man #2-3
- Factor X #3
- Amazing X-Men (1995) #3
- Weapon X (1995) #3
- Gambit & The Externals #3
- X-Universe #1
X-Men: The Complete Age Of Apocalypse (Epic Book 4):
The final edition of the book is an end to all the suspense that the ongoing war between the X-Men and the Apocalypse held.
It discloses the reality of who died and who actually lived at the end of the war. X-Men were very powerful and aimed to destroy the plans of the Apocalypse but it is really fun to see who did they actually destroy first, the Apocalypse or themselves?
This book has the following collects of comics:
- Collects Generation Next #4
- X-Calibre #4
- X-Man #4 & #53-54
- Factor X #4
- Gambit And The X-Ternals #4
- Amazing X-Men (1995) #4
- Weapon X (1995) #4
- X-Universe #2
- X-Men: Omega
- Blink #4
- X-Men: Prime
