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New X-Men #42

Marvel · Series began 2004 · November 2007

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Dates

Cover date: November 2007
On sale: September 19, 2007
In stores: September 19, 2007
Pages: 44

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #42 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition$2.99 cover

Direct Edition

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

Barcode 75960605544904211
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Newsstand edition$3.99 cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07148602185811
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Story arc: Endangered Species

This is part 9 of 12. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Also part of: Children of the X-Men

Creators

pencils: Skottie Young, Marc Silvestri, Mike Perkinsinks: Skottie Young, Marc Silvestri, Andrew Hennessycolors: Skottie Young, Jean-François Beaulieu, Stjepan Šejić, Raúl Treviñoscript: Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, Mike Careyletters: Dave Sharpe, Virtual Calligraphy, Joe Caramagna

Stories

Children of X-Men Part 1 · New X-Men · 22 pages
While the X-Men discuss the best way to protect their young charges who insist on putting themselves in harm's way, the New X-Men are trying to figure out which one of them is the youngest mutant on earth.
Endangered Species Chapter 12 · 8 pages
Beast and Dark Beast visit the Guthrie farm to try and discover why five of the ten children in the family manifested mutant powers. While Beast is distracted, his evil counterpart experiments on one of the boys with tragic results.

Publisher’s description

Mutants are now an endangered species, and the New X-Men realize that they may well be the LAST X-Men! After the events of "Quest for Magik," several of the kids have been changed forever, and the Astonishing X-Men are finally taking some time to get to know their students. But after everything the team has been through? who even wants to be an X-Man? New powers, new relationships, new team members, all on the road to the X-event of the decade! Tired of dead ends with current mutants, Beast turns to the family that has sired the most mutants on Earth—the Guthries. The family that produced two X-MEN and may hold the key to save the mutant race.

Characters

Scott SummersCyclopsEmma FrostAnoleVictor BorkowskiRockslide

Reprinted in

X-Men: Endangered Species (2008), New X-Men: The Quest for Magik - The Complete Collection (2019)