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Art by Brett Booth. (Image Credit: Marvel)[/caption] While not the first time in recent years Marvel has launched a '90s-inspired X-Men book, Legends is notable for being set firmly in the regular Marvel Universe. Previously, X-Men Forever featured writer Chris Claremont continuing his classic run where he left off in 1991's X-Men #3 as an alternate universe story, while X-Men '92 was set in the world of X-Men: The Animated Series. But with X-Men Legends, each story is part of regular X-Men continuity and will have direct ramifications on the contemporary X-books. Marvel's press release teases, "X-MEN LEGENDS will deliver startling tales month after month that dive into the rich history of the X-Men to tie up loose ends, resolve long-standing plot danglers, and reveal shocking truths that will change the past and future of the X-Men!" Fans who were following the X-Men comics in the '90s will probably remember that mystery was a major recurring plot thread in several X-books, after Mister Sinister accidentally let slip that Cyclops and Havok have at least one more brother. Early on, fans speculated Gambit was the mystery mutant in question. But once Adam-X burst onto the scene, he quickly became the frontrunner in the Third Summers Brother race. His apparent origin story established Adam as the son of Katherine Summers and Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-x-man-ever&captions=true"] Unfortunately, when Nicieza left the X-Men line in 1996, that storyline was cut short and Adam-X's connection to the Summers family was eliminated. But as CBR reports, Nicieza later confirmed to he always intended Adam-X to be the third Summers brother. Nicieza wrote, "ADAM X was INTENDED to be the illegitimate offspring of D'Ken and Kate Summers. Taken from D'Ken and raised on a farming planet. BUT--and it's a big but--since I never had the opportunity to tell the entire story, what I intended is worth the screen it's printed on." The mystery of the third Summers brother wasn't definitively solved until 2005's X-Men: Deadly Genesis, which revealed the long-lost third brother to be Vulcan, a mutant who spent his childhood in Shi'ar captivity and whose very existence was wiped out of Cyclops' memory by Professor Xavier. Separately, Claremont revealed Gambit to be the third Summers brother in his futuristic, non-canon series X-Men: The End. With X-Men Legends reviving Adam-X and the Summers family drama, it's possible there will actually be four Summers brothers going forward. It's worth remembering that 2019's Powers of X already alluded to there being more than three Summers brothers. X-Men Legends #1 is slated for release in February 2021. Marvel isn't revealing what other eras the series will revisit, but we do know future X-Men Legends creators include Claremont, Louise Simonson, Larry Hama and Peter David. Claremont is also revisiting an iconic X-Men story as he and artist Salvador Larroca craft a new prequel to Days of Future Past. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/25/awesome-x-men-animated-series-secrets-from-the-brand-new-artbook"] For more retro superhero fun, read up on 9 Marvel Comics mysteries that took years to be solved. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.from IGN News https://ift.tt/38sG2J1
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