It's a return trip to the dark, dystopian Age of Apocalypse! Untold tales of Apocalypse's rise to power and the beginning of the X-Men's underground resistance! Blink's extradimensional exploits! The desperate struggle of Earth's remaining non-mutant heroes! And in the wake of Apocalypse's defeat, a deeply scarred Earth tries to rebuild. But some of the AoA's most powerful mutants have escaped into the Marvel Universe! All the orphaned AoA adventures are collected in one oversized volume! Collecting X-MEN CHRONICLES #1-2, TALES FROM THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1-2, X-MAN #-1 and #53-54, BLINK #1-4, X-UNIVERSE #1-2, EXILES (2001) #60-61, X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1-6 and ONE-SHOT, WHAT IF? (1989) #77 and #81, and WHAT IF? X-MEN: AGE OF APOCALYPSE - plus material from HULK: BROKEN WORLDS #2, X-MEN PRIME, X-MAN ANNUAL '96, X-MEN: ENDANGERED SPECIES, EXILES: DAYS OF THEN & NOW and OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE: AGE OF APOCALYPSE.
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