Marvel Comics' GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA Gives Jean Grey A Chance To Rewrite Her Fate Alongside Ms. Marvel

This summer, Marvel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Giant-Size X-Men #1 with a series of Giant-Size one-shots that revisit key mutant milestones...including The Dark Phoenix Saga!

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By JoshWilding - Mar 05, 2025 06:03 AM EST

Filed Under: Marvel Comics

For 50 years, Len Wein and Dave Cockrum's Giant-Size X-Men #1 has stood the test of time as one of the most important moments in Marvel Comics history, reshaping the X-Men forever. This summer, Marvel celebrates its milestone anniversary with an all-new, five-part event spanning the greatest eras of mutantkind.

From the emergence of Krakoa in Giant-Size X-Men #1 to Age of Apocalypse, House of M and The Dark Phoenix Saga, history has shaped - and shattered - the X-Men time and again. But what if those moments held deeper secrets? What if the past wasn’t set in stone?

Acclaimed X-Scribes Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing join forces with legendary X-Men artist Adam Kubert, superstar artist Rod Reis and more on this epic journey across the X-Men’s most pivotal stories.

The event sees Ms. Marvel pulled into the distant past by an unstable and unleashed Legion. Locked in a battle through time against the Omega-Level mutant, Kamala is the only one standing in the way of X-Men history being warped forever. Following Giant-Size X-Men #1, where Kamala joins the legendary All-New, All-Different X-Men on their critical rescue mission to Krakoa, she goes from the frying pan into the Phoenix fire in Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1.

As the story we know unfolds before her eyes, the new mutant must team up with Jean Grey in her darkest hour and master her dangerous new mutant power in this cosmic, emotional saga.

"The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the enduring high water marks not just for X-Men comics, but superhero stories as a whole," Lanzing and Kelly shared. "Claremont and Byrne changed the game with this story - and 45 years later, it's still the kind of story you can return to again and again for renewed depth and brilliance."

"But what's most exciting is digging into Jean Grey's mindset during one of her strangest, darkest hours - as she finds a new friend in Kamala Khan. Jean Grey's place among her fellow X-Men will get a whole new level of character and meaning from the wild, cosmic events of Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1," they concluded.

In addition, every Giant-Size one-shot will feature a "Revelations" back-up story that uncovers hidden lore behind each respective story and sets up exciting present-day developments for the near future.

In Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1, writer Steve Foxe and artist Lucas Werneck reveal the hidden secret that binds Scott Summer and Jean Grey together. You can take a first look at the issue below.

GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by ROD REIS
Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Variant Cover by ROD REIS
Revelations Story by STEVE FOXE & LUCAS WERNECK
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23 Comments

YonnyLayna - 3/5/2025, 6:35 AM

They really try and try to force MS Marvel into the troats of fans,

KennKathleen - 3/5/2025, 7:00 AM

@YonnyLayna - indeed. Also, when it comes to the Phoenix saga...

bkmeijer1 - 3/5/2025, 8:02 AM

@YonnyLayna - because she got a tv show, was the lead in the Avengers game, and is now playing a role in the comics?

Dotanuki - 3/5/2025, 8:56 AM

@YonnyLayna - right down our troats, I tellz ya!

Clintthahamster - 3/5/2025, 9:12 AM

@Dotanuki - Roight dine or troats!

Clintthahamster - 3/5/2025, 9:14 AM

@YonnyLayna - Kind of a normal choice for a character who's sold more than half a million TPBs in the first five years, IMO.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/ms-marvel-sold-half-million-trade-paperbacks/

NonPlayerC - 3/5/2025, 11:41 AM

@bkmeijer1 - she's been playing a role in the comics for a decade. Then forcing her to be a mutant and x men is a little strange but not any more than other things that happen in the comics. Not sure when she became half mutant but thought she was technically an inhuman. I actually liked the champions run where she and Cyclops from the past became friends

NonPlayerC - 3/5/2025, 11:46 AM

@KennKathleen - yeah the Phoenix seems to roll back around every 5 years these days. But I guess that's what Phoenixes do. die, rebirth, find a girl with red hair, die, repeat. (?, Phoenix? Phoeni? what's the plural of phoenix?)

marvel72 - 3/5/2025, 11:53 AM

@bkmeijer1 - A streaming show no watched, A video game that they pretty much gave up on and starred in The Marvels which was a massive flop.

They will never admit that the character isn't that popular and general audiences couldn't give a shit about her.

KennKathleen - 3/5/2025, 12:21 PM

@NonPlayerC - apparently the third X-Men movies...

🏏 🦗 🏏

bkmeijer1 - 3/5/2025, 5:16 PM

@marvel72 @NonPlayerC - I like her being a mutant, also since I think it was originally the intention she was a mutant anyway. NYX is great.

ObserverIO - 3/5/2025, 7:19 AM

SAGA huh, Dark Phoenix SAGA. Like Infinity Saga. Multiverse Saga.

THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA.

It's right there.

Clintthahamster - 3/5/2025, 9:15 AM

@ObserverIO - The Mutant Saga is next, but I can see Dark Phoenix following. I hope they don't rush into it like Fox did . . . twice. It should feel MONUMENTAL by the time it drops.

ObserverIO - 3/5/2025, 9:28 AM

@Clintthahamster - I mean the fans are calling it the Mutant Saga, but it's not official.

The Infinity Saga culminated in an adaptation of The Infinity Gauntlet. The Multiverse Saga will culminate in an adaptation of Secret Wars. The Phoenix Saga/Dark Phoenix Saga could culminate in an adaptation of the Phoenix Saga/Dark Phoenix Saga.

A Saga seems to take around a decade, so that's plenty of time to build up to Phoenix. Mutants would be a large part of that, but so would the cosmic side of Marvel, which they seem to want to explore with Nova, etc. Maybe a Starjammers trilogy to full the void left by the GOTG.

But just calling it The Mutant Saga... well what's the story? Mutants aren't really a story. 'Infinity' spoke to the Infinity Stones being gathered into the Infinity Gauntlet by Thanos. 'Multiverse' speaks to the one timeline becoming a multiverse and the danger of that leading to incursions. Kang once solved this by making just one timeline and now Doom will do the same by creating Battleworld. But 'Mutants'?

Clintthahamster - 3/5/2025, 9:52 AM

@ObserverIO - Oh, I guess I thought that was official. I always thought that it was a stupid name, but I was rolling with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NonPlayerC - 3/5/2025, 11:57 AM

@ObserverIO - Yeah I feel like they ar4e kind of rushing secret wars though, there was a good bit of build up to that in the comics. The universes were collapsing (which was kinda hinted at in dr strange MoM but not Doom and Mr fantastic were obviously fleshed out with their conflict. Not to mention the Maker being a big part. I just don't see how it will hit the general audience as much with doom (a villain saving the marvel universe by making battle world and stealing Richards family in the process. Obviously infinity war was "adapted" so changes are inherent. Doomsday might be the incursions collapsing the multiverse and he creates battle world at the end but that pretty much give doom 1 movie to be the bad guy and turn good (ish) at the end. Not to mention spider 4 being after doomsday so there wouldn't be a world for his movie. Im cautiously optimistic on how they will play it

ObserverIO - 3/5/2025, 12:26 PM

@NonPlayerC - I share your concerns for the most part, but lots can be achieved in a short span. If the FF movie can successfully introduce us to the world and history of the FF and let us feel that Reed/Doom stuff, even if it's mostly an off-screen history if we feel that it's there then that could go a long long way. I mean we felt the history between Xavier and Magneto in X-Men 2000 over a decade before they made First Class, so it's possible that we get that feel with Reed and Doom.
It does look like the FF movie is gonna take place over a long period of time wherein the FF have a full history and career.

I'd love to see the Maker too, but if they have the Council of Reeds (as rumored) then Miles Teller's Reed could be The Maker and could become a factor for Doomsday. As much as everyone hated the Fant4stic movie it does all the groundwork of telling the Maker's origin up until a point. It's just the part where he actually breaks bad that's missing, but he already had a version of The City in that universe at the end of that movie. So if he's already he Maker when we see him again then we could see him play a supporting role.

It'd probably help if Spider-Man 4 was essentially Doomsday part 2 and the end of the world and subsequent creation of Battleworld happens at the end of that movie rather than Doomsday. but I think The Russos might want to do that part themselves because it's a major Thanos-snap level moment.

NonPlayerC - 3/5/2025, 12:34 PM

@ObserverIO - all good points!!

IronMan616 - 3/5/2025, 7:20 AM

Why do they keep trying to make Ms. Marvel a thing, nobody cares for her, nobody buys he books. Like that Jordan meme, Marvel, stop it, get some help.

CreateNowSlpL8r - 3/5/2025, 10:00 AM

@IronMan616 - They have made her an Avenger, a Champion, the protagonist in an Avengers game that bombed, a show no one watched, a movie no one watched. They even killed her off which they seem to do before a characters movie now but they did it in Spider-man since no one reads her book. Shes inhuman AND a mutant X-man now.

Waifuslayer2 - 3/5/2025, 11:57 AM

And they wonder why no one buys Comics anymore....

NonPlayerC - 3/5/2025, 12:01 PM

I kinda liked the champion run but yeah, her powers in the comics are too derivative of Mr fantastic. She's fine on the x men but just don't see how she is set to help jean out as pheonix when lifelong friends (the rest of the actual x men couldn't)

dragon316 - 3/5/2025, 12:07 PM

How many times will marvel kill jean be brought back from dead she is only character in marvel I know of who died most times still alive in comics by rebirth , clone, time travel

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Marvel Comics' GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA Gives Jean Grey A Chance To Rewrite Her Fate Alongside Ms. Marvel

This summer, Marvel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Giant-Size X-Men #1 with a series of Giant-Size one-shots that revisit key mutant milestones...including The Dark Phoenix Saga!

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