Dates
- Cover date
- January 1997
- On sale
- November 20, 1996
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #4 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.95 cover
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 75960603650900411
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.99 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 00928103650004
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Stories
- The First Culling · 22 pages
En Sabah Nur defeats Ozymandias and becomes Apocalypse.
Publisher’s description
En Sabah Nur is being hunted by Ozymandias who slaughters dozens of slaves and piles them with a captive Nephri atop them. Nur rescues her and saves her from a giant serpent but she's horrified by him and rejects him. Nur grows in size after being speared by Ozymandias and declares himself Apocalypse for the first time. Meanwhile the Rama-Tut is in heated battle with the Fantastic Four beneath the Sphinx. Ozymandias follows Apocalypse into the Sphinx and Apocalypse uses Tut's technology to transform Ozymandias into the stone servant being he would remain for thousands of years. Tut and the Fantastic Four escape into the timestream and Apocalypse emerges alone from the Sphinx, worshiped by Egypt. In the future, Apocalypse is by the now Queen Nephri's deathbed and mocks her for rejecting him.
Characters
Reprinted in
X-Men: Rise of Apocalypse (1998), X-Men: The Rise of Apocalypse (2016)