New X-Men New X-Men New X-Men is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics within the X-Men franchise. After the end of Grant Morrison's run on titled "New X-Men", the title was used for a new series, "New X-Men: Academy X" during the X-Men ReLoad event. The title was later shortened to simply "New X-Men" in 2006 when the new creative team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost took over the series with issue #20. Whereas the other "X-Men" comics mostly deal with established adult mutants, this series concentrates on the lives of young students residing at the Xavier Institute
X-Men as X-Men. In 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in "Amazing Fantasy", as well as the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four, co-creator Stan Lee wanted to create another group of superheroes but did not want to have to explain how they got their powers. In 2004, Lee recalled, "I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, 'Why don't I just say they're mutants. They were born that way. In a 1987 interview, Kirby said, The X-Men, I did