Dates
- Cover date
- March 2008
- In stores
- January 4, 2008
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #494 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 75960602461249411
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$3.99 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 00928102461303
This edition’s page
Story arc: Messiah Complex
This is part 8 of 11. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Creators
Stories
- Messiah Complex Chapter Ten · 22 pages
Gambit and his allies keep Bishop from killing the mutant child and take the baby with them. In the future, Jamie and Layla meet the child Lucas Bishop in the mutant internment camp. The X-Folk regroup and begin to track the mutant baby. Cable contacts Xavier to get some help in his quest to save the future.
Publisher’s description
The Marauders are back on the hunt for the messiah baby. They're a step ahead of the X-Men, but how will they fare against the new X-Force? Also, the traitor reveals his (or her) plan for the baby and alters the landscape of the battle dramatically.
Reprinted in
X-Men: Messiah Complex (2008), X-Men Milestones: Messiah Complex (2020), X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy Omnibus (2026)