Bibliography of Magneto

Below is a list of appearances by the Marvel Comics character Magneto.

Comic Books

Significant stories

1960s & 70s

* "Uncanny X-Men" #1 (First appearance.)
* "Uncanny X-Men" #4 (First appearance of Brotherhood, including the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.)
* "Defenders" #16 (Is deaged to infancy by creation Alpha.)
* "Uncanny X-Men" #104 (Is reaged to prime by Shi'ar Davan Shakari, fights and defeats the new group of X-Men.)

1980s

* "Uncanny X-Men" #150 (In fight against X-Men, after believing he killed Kitty, becomes shocked and has an epiphany, realizing how in his quest to make a better world he has become like those he hated. Holocaust backstory is revealed.)
* "Uncanny X-Men" #161 (Xavier remembers how he met Magneto in Israel. The two become friends and hypothesise about what would happen if superhuman beings were to emerge. During fight with Strucker and HYDRA, the fact that they are mutants is revealed to each other. Magneto leaves after the battle, taking the HYDRA's gold with him and telling Xavier that he is too naive.)
* "The Vision and the Scarlet Witch" #4 (Magneto and the twins Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver discover he is their father.)
* "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills" (Magneto helps the X-Men to stop a radical anti-mutant televangelist. Later asks Xavier to join him, but Xavier refuses.)
* "Uncanny X-Men" #200 (After turning himself in, Magneto is tried for his crimes. During the trial, the children of Strucker attack, and Xavier is mortally injured; before being taken away by the Shi'ar to recuperate, Xavier asks Magneto to lead the X-Men and teach the New Mutants, and Magneto hesitantly accepts.)
* "New Mutants" #35 (Magneto becomes teacher of the New Mutants.)
* "New Mutants" #61 (The New Mutants disobey Magneto and go on a mission, in which student Doug Ramsey is killed. When they return, an angry Magneto lashes out at the group, and a rift forms between the him and students.)
* "New Mutants" #75 (Discovering that Magneto is the new White King of the Hellfire Club, the New Mutants angrily quit being students under Magneto's leadership, leaving Magneto with no further ties to Professor Xavier's school.)
* "Classic X-Men" #12 (Flashback issue reveals how Magneto was in the Holocaust, falling in love with another prisoner named Magda. The two escape and start a family, but when an anti-Semitic mob prevents him from saving their daughter from dying in a fire, he uses his newly emerging powers to kill them. A horrified Magda runs off, not telling him she is pregnant again.)

1990s

* "Uncanny X-Men" #274-5 (After saving Rogue from being killed by the Carol Danvers persona she absorbed, the two share a small romance. Later, Magneto kills Zaladane after she tries stealing his powers, despite Rogue's pleas. Magneto flies off, telling her that Xavier was a fool to have him try leading the X-Men, and he was a fool to try.)
* "X-Men" (v2) #1-3 (Magneto resides in Asteroid M, depressed and wanting to be left alone. A group know as the Acolytes on the run from the government ask him to help them. Later, Magneto declares Asteroid M a sanctuary for all mutants. When he takes some nukes to protect the asteroid in case they are attacked, the X-Men attack him without asking for an explanation. Magneto, shocked at their betrayal, returns to the asteroid when one of the Acolytes, Fabian Cortez, reveals to Magneto that Moira tampered with his DNA when he was de-aged. Believing his redemption to be a lie, and prodded on by Cortez's manipulations, Magneto attacks and kidnaps the X-Men, lashing out at Xavier and Moira in particular. During the battle, Cortez causes the Asteroid to self-destruct and flees, hoping that Magneto's death will make him a martyr and he can use it for power. When Moira is able to tell Magneto that anything she had done lost its effect when he first reactived his powers, he lets them go but chooses to die with the other Acolytes.)
*"X-Men Unlimited" #1-2 (Magneto is saved by one of the Acolytes. Recuperating, he saves Xavier's life after Xavier became stranded in the arctic, before visiting Magda's grave one last time and heading off to space.)
*"Uncanny X-Men" #304, "X-Men" (v2) #25 (Magneto creates a new space-base called Avalon and asks the X-Men to join him, to which the X-Man Colossus accepts. The others later attack Magneto, and when Wolverine tries killing him he rips the adamantium from the savage mutant's bones. An enraged Xavier wipes Magneto's mind, leaving him in a catonic state. The Acolytes take him back to Avalon.)
*"X-Men" #42-43 (a battle destroys Avalon; Colossus helps Magneto escape by putting him in one of the escape pods.)
*"Uncanny X-Men" #327 (What appears to be a young, amnesiac Magneto appears. Calling himself Joseph, he joins the X-Men.)
*"Uncanny X-Men" #350 (the real Magneto returns, throwing Joseph's identity into question.)
*"X-Men: Magneto War", "Uncanny X-Men" #366-367, "X-Men" (v2) #86-87 (An old enemy of Magneto, named Astra, returns and reveals that she created Joseph as a clone of Magneto, younger and more powerful, in hopes of killing Magneto, and she restored Magneto's mind, so it wouldn't be a hollow victory when Joseph killed him. When Joseph attempted to kill Magneto the first time, Magneto was able to knock him out and escape, giving Joseph amnesia. When Magneto resurfaced to the public, blackmailing the UN in giving him the country of Genosha, Astra returns and controls Joseph to battle Magneto. The battle causes severe damage to the magnetosphere, and when the X-Men free Joseph he dies restoring it, causing Astra to flee. The UN grant Magneto control of Genosha, as long as he promises to stop his terrorist attacks on the other nations. Contemplating his victory, Magneto discovers that the battle has left him severely depowered)
*"Magneto Rex" #1-3, "Magneto: Dark Seduction" #1-4. (As ruler of Genosha, Magneto is able to bring order onto the wartorn nation that used to enslave mutants, recreating it as a sanctuary for all mutants. Quicksilver and Polaris join him to keep an eye on him, but when Quicksilver has the Avengers attack him he banishes him. Polaris is able to help Magneto with his low powers, with him using hers as a conduit of sorts. Magneto is later able to restore his powers using technology from the Genegineer's machine.)

2000s

*"X-Men" (v2) #111-113, "Uncanny X-Men" #392-393 (Magneto declares war on humanity, is stabbed in the gut by Wolverine.)
*"New X-Men" #115 (Magneto, in a wheelchair, is apparently killed when Cassandra Nova's wild sentinels destroy Genosha.)
*"New X-Men" annual 2001 (The X-Men meet the engimatic mutant Xorn, who apparently has the ability to heal.)
*"New X-Men" #118 (Magneto becomes a martyr among the mutant community, with the phrase "Magneto was right" being used.)
*"New X-Men" #124-126 (Xorn joins the team.)
*"New X-Men" #146 (Xorn is revealed to be apparently Magneto.)
*"New X-Men" #147-150 (Addicted to the drug Kick, an erratic Magneto destroys New York, herds people into crematoriums, and kills Jean Grey before being decapitated by Wolverine.)
*"Excalibur" (v2) #1 (Leaving the X-Men to Cyclops and Emma Frost, Xavier travels to Genosha where he meets up with Magneto, the real one.)
*"Excalibur" (v2) #2-7 (Xavier and Magneto try rekindling their friendship and work together to try rebuilding Genosha. The Magneto who destroyed New York is revealed to be an impostor.)
*"Avengers" #500, "Excalibur" #8-12 (The Scarlet Witch suffers a mental breakdown in attempting to recreate her lost children with her immensely huge powers, inadvertently causing the Avengers to be attacked by numerous foes, and several members being killed. While she battles Dr. Strange, Magneto has a vision of her crying for help in Genosha and rescues her, taking her back to Genosha and asking Xavier to help her.)
*"Excalibur" #13-14, "House of M" #1 (After trying fruitlessly in helping Wanda, Xavier enlists the help of Dr. Strange, but he can't do anything either. Xavier calls together for a group meeting of the X-Men and the Avengers to decide her fate. Some suggest killing her, and Quicksilver rushes to Magneto and Genosha telling they are coming to kill her. The world is engulfed in a white light.)
*"House of M" #2-6 (The world is changed into a utopia where Magneto is the ruler and almost everyone has had their wishes granted. Wolverine's memories are left intact somehow, and with the help of a young mutant named Layla Miller who has the ability to restore minds, he restores the minds of the other heroes. With everyone's minds restored, they assume Magneto is somehow responsible and they head over to Genosha to attack him. While most of the group battles Genosha, the others discover a grave commorating Xavier for his sacrifice, only to discover the grave is empty.)
*"House of M" #7 (Dr. Strange talks to Wanda and discovers that it was Quicksilver who had her change the world, believing it could make up for her sins and prevent the Avengers and X-Men for killing her. Strange asked her if she had anything to do with the Magneto in New York, but she doesn't know. Layla Miller restores Magneto's mind, and he kills Quicksilver, telling him he has destroyed everything in his name. Wanda revives Quicksilver and tells Magneto that he is a horrible father for choosing the mutants over his own children, before saying "No more mutants" and engulfing the world in another large white light.)
*"House of M" #8 (The world is restored to normal, though most of the world's mutants are now powerless, and Xavier is still missing. In Genosha, an emotionally-broken Magneto is alone when he discovers he has lost his powers. The X-Men arrive, demanding to know where Xavier is, but he doesn't know. The X-Men decide to leave him, believing that being a human is a just punishment for his actions.)
*"New Avengers" #20 Magneto is repowered by the Collective and goes missing in a helicopter explosion. More is revealed about how Xorn impersonated Magneto during the attack on New York.