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X-Men Masterworks Vol. 5

  • Issues 43-53 

  • Quicksilver attends Xavier’s funeral at Magneto’s wrath. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have betrayed Magneto once already and joined the Avengers only to return after the way ‘homo sapiens’ judged them

  • It is revealed that Xavier had been secretly training Jean to learn how to use telepathy in addition to her telekinesis

  • Revealed that Magneto was controlling the bullet which grazed Scarlet Witch by a human causing them to return to him

  • After capturing all the X-men except for Angel, Angel flies away and stumbles on an island where he meets the Red Raven 

  • Red Raven is a survivor of a plane crash when he was a baby and was adopted by the Sky People who live on an island in the sky 

  • He was raised by them for 21 years until the Sky People decided they wanted to attack homo sapiens to which he opposed so he regrettably had then gassed the citizens into suspended animation after which he separated the legions into the military complex and isolated that section from the main island to below ocean depths where it would rise again 20 years later in the present. He must put them into SA every twenty years

  • The island is submerged underwater again and Angel flies off to find the Avengers 

  • Magneto is defeated with the help of Black Panther, Hawkeye, Wasp, and Goliath (Hank Pym)

  • Agent Duncan reveals Xavier’s will to the X-men which is leaving the mansion to them 

  • Juggernaut escapes from the Crimson Cosmos within the Crimson Gem where he was imprisoned in Issues 32/33 in Masterworks Vol. 4

  • Juggernaut is enraged when he finds out that Xavier is dead because he didn’t kill him

  • As quickly as he arrived, he is pulled back to the Crimson Cosmos 

  • Agent Duncan reluctantly forces the X-men to disband and go separate ways after the incident as they are too big a target together

  • Beast and Iceman encounter Warlock again this time masquerading as a magician called Maha Yogi. He is defeated again

  • Jean and Cyclops deal with a robot called Computo which is controlled by the cyborg Quasimodo

  • Mesmero, a disciple of Magneto, uses a psychic machine to locate and hypnotize latent mutants 

  • His army of Demi-Men come into conflict with the X-men

  • One of the mutants is named Lorna Dane

  • Mesmero kidnaps Lorna Dane and awakens her latent mutant ability which is magnetism. Mesmero also reveals that Lorna is the daughter of Magneto which she comes to believe 

  • Magneto appears who was thought dead when the X-men and Avengers defeated him

  • Lorna flees with Magneto due to conflicting emotions and Iceman is reprimanded by Cyclops for emotional compromise due to feelings for her and her being the daughter of their archenemy. Iceman storms off

  • Elsewhere in a desert, a being known as Erik the Red arrives and proclaims to be Magneto’s equal

  • Erik the Red attacks Magneto’s base of operations

  • Magneto and Lorna are there as well

  • Erik claims that he has come to join Magneto

  • Cyclops tells the X-men (save Iceman) telepathically to rendezvous to a secret location

  • Magneto, still weak from his confrontation with the X-men and Avengers, commands Mesmero to submit to Erik’s command to which he relents

  • The X-men rendezvous inside Mesmero’s HQ with Erik the Red who turns out to be Cyclops. Iceman is also there

  • Lorna is torn about defending her father and battling her former friends

  • Iceman tells her that Magneto conned her into thinking and believing he’s her real father because of their abilities

  • Lorna turns on her father who escapes and leaves Mesmero and the X-men for dead as the place is set to explode

  • Jean guides them out a they leave Mesmero for dead as well

  • By tampering with a device that transports living matter into radio energy and sends it into space, Jean, Cyclops, and Beast inadvertently release the FF villain Blaastaar from the Negative Zone

  • Blaastaar is defeated

  • Angel’s father Warren Worthington II is murdered by The Dazzler who is revealed to be Angel’s uncle and his father’s brother because he was going to spill about Dazzler’s plans for world conquest 

  • Dazzler’s plans backfire and he falls to his death after punching Warren when being carried mid-flight by when Warren can only save the former hostage Candy Southern who he was also carrying

  • This story most likely takes place between issues 46-49


  • After initially opposing Scott’s offer to join Xavier’s X-men, Iceman realizes it is for the best to join after experiencing bigotry from ‘homo sapiens’ and becomes the 2nd X-man

  • Hank Mccoy’s father was exposed to radiation who in turn passed it onto his son

  • Years later when Hank Mccoy is in college, a man called El Conquistador exploits Hank in stealing a miniaturized power plant after threatening to kill his parents

  • The X-men are pointed towards Hank’s location through Xavier’s firsttime use of Cerebro 

  • El Conquistador reneges on his promise to let his parents go after he obtains the object

  • Cyclops, Iceman, and Angel arrive and defeat Conquistador who unwittingly transmits electricity into his body (through Xavier’s powers) and kills himself. Hank frees his parents and becomes the 4th X-man