Dates
- Cover date
- November 2008
- On sale
- September 10, 2008
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
Creators
pencils: Mike Perkins, Andrea Di Vitoinks: Mike Perkins, Andrea Di Vitoscript: Christos Gagecolors: Laura Villariletters: Dave Sharpe
Stories
- Chapter 1: Rise · 22 pages
Young Magnus Lensherr and his mother are liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II. Magnus grows up to become a hard working family man but villagers burn down his apartment building with his young daughter inside. Magnus kills the crowd and Magneto is born. Magneto begins working with mutant freedom fighters and fathers another child. Magneto meets and joins Apocalypse. Unhappy as to Apocalypse's methods, Magneto defeats him, taking control of the mutant band. Magneto realizes that conflict with normal humans is inevitable and declares war on all humanity.
Reprinted in
House of M: Civil War (2009), Civil War: House of M (2016), House of M Omnibus Companion (2024)