X-Men: New Mutants

The New Mutants is the name of two defunct Marvel Comics superhero teams, as well as the title of two series featuring those teams. Both were offshoots of the popular X-Men franchise and both featured a team of teenaged, mutant superheroes. more...

The first New Mutants were a junior team of X-Men. Created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, they first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982) and were featured in an eponymous title from 1983 until 1991, when it was reinvented as X-Force. Like its parent title, The New Mutants highlighted interpersonal and group conflict as much as action and adventure, and featured a large, ensemble cast.

The second New Mutants series, launched in 2003, featured another group of teenaged mutants, tutored by members of the first group. Unlike the original New Mutants, they were only one part of a huge cast of students at Xavier Institute. First, they were notable for their drive to become superheroes but soon rival groups played a large role in the series. In 2004, it was relaunched as New X-Men: Academy X, after which the central group was formally dubbed The New Mutants.

In late 2005, as part of the Decimation "event", the remaining students merged into one group, known only as a junior segment of X-Men.

History

The New Mutants, Vol. 1

By the early 1980s, Uncanny X-Men, under the authorship of Chris Claremont, had become one of the comic book industry's most successful titles, persuading Marvel to launch The New Mutants, the first of many spin-offs, deemed "X-Books".

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