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The battle begins this Wednesday! For the X-Men’s 50th Anniversary Marvel is using a tried and true formula to celebrate the mutants. X-Men history is packed with time travel tales but X-Men: Battle of the Atom appears to be an epic in the making with daring new twists on concept.
When Brian Michael Bendis launched All-New X-Men, Beast brought Professor Xavier’s original five students into the present in order to stop Scott’s mutant revolution. Now X-Men from the future arrive in the present on a mission to force the past X-Men to go back.
Here’s a look inside X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1 by Bendis and Frank Cho. As you’ll see it’s not just X-Men from past, present and future but Sentinels from various eras are fighting the Children of the Atom:
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