Does anyone know what are the differences between Uncanny X-Men and X-men comics

How many x-men titles are published (not the crossovers)

Thanks a lot

Uncanny is the original title that started in 1963 and X-men is the title that started in 91-over the years the books have been divided by many differences but have had the same core values- currently you have Uncanny, X-Men Legacy(formerly X-men), X-men(newest incarnation for whatever reason Marvel decided to publish another volume)X-Force, New Mutants, X-Factor, and Generation Hope

thanks a lot my friend for your help

That's an excellent question...

What the new ones are supposed to be about... No idea... But...

Uncanny X-Men - The first. Charles Xavier, Professor X, brought to his mansion five young mutants to train them in the use of their powers. Cyclops, Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), Angel, Beast, and Iceman. It's change quite a bit over the years, but Uncanny X-Men, I believe, is the mainstay of all the X-Men series.

New Mutants - After Professor X had been training the original team for a few years, he brought even younger mutants to his mansion and officially turned it into a school... Cannonball, Mirage, Karma, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Magman, and Cipher. Later Magik and Warlocke would join them.

Astonishing X-Men - Um... This series seems to have story arcs that the rest of the Marvel Universe is NOT involved in. Things like the X-Men fighting on Break World, or the Ghost Box series...

X-Men - This seems to have the same purpose as Astonishing X-Men. There's so much going on with the X-Men, that you need several series to tell the whole story...

After those, it gets fuzzy... But even though there are a number of titles, they run parallel to each other.

X-Force - at least the last two volumes of X-Force were teams put together to basically kill... They do that which no one else really wants to do... and they are clandestine. Scott formed the second X-Force team (Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Angel, and Psylocke) to go after and kill the purifiers... The latest X-Force team was put together by Wolverine without Scott's knowledge (Wolverine, Angel, Psylocke, Deadpool, and Fantomex)

Legacy - SEEMS to try and stick to major events; Civil War, Seige, Nation X, etc...

Generation Hope - All centered around Hope Summers, the first Mutant born after M-Day. The writers are obviously forming a team that parallels the very first X-Men team... It started off very slow, but it's gotten good.

X-Factor - This is not really associated directly with the X-Men, but many of their members were X-Men at one time, or at least students at Xavier's school. I love this series.. Their stories do not tie into to the 'mutant fight for survival' every issue like most of the X-Men series do. These are simply Mutants who formed a detective agency... It's VERY good.

Wolverine - Obviously, this one is all about Wolverine.

I hope this helps.

thanks a lot my friend it helped a lot

@Timandm said:

X-Force - at least the last two volumes of X-Force were teams put together to basically kill... They do that which no one else really wants to do... and they are clandestine. Scott formed the second X-Force team (Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Angel, and Psylocke) to go after and kill the purifiers... The latest X-Force team was put together by Wolverine without Scott's knowledge (Wolverine, Angel, Psylocke, Deadpool, and Fantomex)

The first version of the newer, deadlier X-Force consisted of Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Wolfsbane, Caliban & Hepzibah. Later on, Archangel, Domino, Elixir & Vanisher joined the fray as Caliban died, Wolfsbane returned to X-Factor and Warpath & Hepzibah took some time off.

do you know any other character except cable deadpool and woolverine to have their own issue which are related to the xmen storyline?

@Thunderscream: Yep. Thanks. Sometimes it's hard to remember everyone on the team. Especially those late and night replies.

Regarding Warpath, he's an interesting character so it's time for him to quit taking time off and get back to work... And his girlfriend can come along too...(I also think she's interesting.)

@elsid7 said:

do you know any other character except cable deadpool and woolverine to have their own issue which are related to the xmen storyline?

There've been several minis for various characters: Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Storm, Shadowcat, Dazzler, Iceman....I'm sure there are more. None have stood the test of time like Wolverine though. Apparently he can be shoved down every orifice of everybody's body on this entire planet every millisecond of every day for the rest of our lives and people will still ask for more of the little furball.

@Thunderscream said:

@elsid7 said:

do you know any other character except cable deadpool and woolverine to have their own issue which are related to the xmen storyline?

There've been several minis for various characters: Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Storm, Shadowcat, Dazzler, Iceman....I'm sure there are more. None have stood the test of time like Wolverine though. Apparently he can be shoved down every orifice of everybody's body on this entire planet every millisecond of every day for the rest of our lives and people will still ask for more of the little furball.

They may actually be his true mutant power...

@Timandm: what about the essential x men? i know they stopped that but i always wondered what it was about mostly

Actually, this info is mistaken!

This is an editorial nightmare: The first ever run was solely named The X-Men (later, only X-Men), it lasted 66 issues (and what followed just were reprints). Then the characters were revived with the Giant-Size X-Men, The Uncanny X-Men and everything in between, which is considered another separate volume by Marvel (don't yell at me, they are the ones that publish it). A second X-Men volume was born in the early 90s with the idea of splitting the X-Men into 2 teams (this idea lasted a few months, as I expect the new version of this will), this volume morphed later into Grant Morrison's New X-Men (unrelated to the young mutant team, however, the third version of Astonishing X-Men, by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday is it's follow-up) and later, X-Men; Legacy which started as what the title implies, but it became Rogue Adventures since 2009. This is, obviously, skipping the title change from Age Of Apocalypse.

This means that the upcoming Uncanny X-Men #1 will be catalogued as the beginning of Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2, and we currently have X-Men Vol. 3 (which started with Curse of the Mutants in 2010, and is treated like a Team-Up book).

@DATNIGGA: Essential Classic X-Men reprints the first X-Men stories from the 60s. Essential X-Men reprints everything from Giant-Size X-Men, forward. It hasn't gotten to the breaking point of X-Men Vol 2. but it's getting close.

@spikevalentine: Okay, you're hired. You're now my official source for X-Men publications information. Now, there's not pay, the benefits are lousy ( assuming they exist at all), and the hours are somewhat odd, but... um.. It'll be a great experience! LOL!

@Timandm: 20 years of X-Men fandom were bound to pay-off, kind of :P

@Timandm said:

That's an excellent question...

What the new ones are supposed to be about... No idea... But...

Uncanny X-Men - The first. Charles Xavier, Professor X, brought to his mansion five young mutants to train them in the use of their powers. Cyclops, Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), Angel, Beast, and Iceman. It's change quite a bit over the years, but Uncanny X-Men, I believe, is the mainstay of all the X-Men series.

New Mutants - After Professor X had been training the original team for a few years, he brought even younger mutants to his mansion and officially turned it into a school... Cannonball, Mirage, Karma, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Magman, and Cipher. Later Magik and Warlocke would join them.

Astonishing X-Men - Um... This series seems to have story arcs that the rest of the Marvel Universe is NOT involved in. Things like the X-Men fighting on Break World, or the Ghost Box series...

X-Men - This seems to have the same purpose as Astonishing X-Men. There's so much going on with the X-Men, that you need several series to tell the whole story...

After those, it gets fuzzy... But even though there are a number of titles, they run parallel to each other.

X-Force - at least the last two volumes of X-Force were teams put together to basically kill... They do that which no one else really wants to do... and they are clandestine. Scott formed the second X-Force team (Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Angel, and Psylocke) to go after and kill the purifiers... The latest X-Force team was put together by Wolverine without Scott's knowledge (Wolverine, Angel, Psylocke, Deadpool, and Fantomex)

Legacy - SEEMS to try and stick to major events; Civil War, Seige, Nation X, etc...

Generation Hope - All centered around Hope Summers, the first Mutant born after M-Day. The writers are obviously forming a team that parallels the very first X-Men team... It started off very slow, but it's gotten good.

X-Factor - This is not really associated directly with the X-Men, but many of their members were X-Men at one time, or at least students at Xavier's school. I love this series.. Their stories do not tie into to the 'mutant fight for survival' every issue like most of the X-Men series do. These are simply Mutants who formed a detective agency... It's VERY good.

Wolverine - Obviously, this one is all about Wolverine.

I hope this helps.

and the new ultimate one, if that would count

@spikevalentine: do you know anything about spider-man