Essential X-Men

Also unlike the US originals, advertisements are kept to a minimum, with most simply promoting the other comics in the Collectors' Edition range or Marvel DVDs or video games.

Unlike other Collector's Editions that Panini Comics publishes, Essential X-Men rarely reprinted the classic stories.

This is because in the US, the X-Men have multiple comics and in order not to fall behind the other Collector Editions in terms of continuity there is no room to print classic stories.

Tie-in issues to crossovers such as Secret Invasion, Utopia, Second Coming, Curse of the Mutants and Fear Itself were also featured.

The series also featured the story-lines Battle of the Atom, Trial of Jean Grey, then Black Vortex.

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 caused the magazine to be temporarily placed on hold until it was cancelled and replaced in 2021 with Marvel Universe X-Men, which started reprinting House of X / Powers of X.