Recaps

James Howlett’s campaign against Sebastian Shaw led to the discovery and extraction of Wakanda’s Vibranium meteorite, while Charles Xavier began recruiting mutants and government officials moved toward controlling them. James sought magical training at Kamar-Taj as plans for a New York Sanctum and a government mutant squad took shape.

• Eisenhower suspended Super Soldier programs and ordered an investigation of the Howlett Family, while Shaw pursued his plans in the Soviet Union.
• James married Peggy, then joined Emma, Erik, and the Winter Wolves in confronting Shaw’s forces and stopping his attempt to provoke nuclear war.
• James brought Shaw to a mountain valley, where Erik killed him, and James’s group later met Charles Xavier at the ruined battlefield.
• James’s team subdued Wakanda’s forces, lifted the Vibranium meteorite, and moved it to an underground Greenland base without taking Wakanda or its people.
• James sought Kamar-Taj, fought the Ancient One, and then agreed to study magic in exchange for giving the sorcerers the property at 177 Blake Street.
• Charles and Moira recruited mutants including Sean Cassidy and Alex Summers, while Emma and Raven worked at the Howlett Group’s Special Talent Affairs Department.
• Hoover and Stryker advanced plans to investigate and control mutants, and Charles agreed to help form a mutant squad for service and special operations.

James Howlett and the Howlett Family dismantled Hoover’s anti-mutant network and reshaped America’s response to Mutants, while Charles Xavier struggled with the cost of their methods. The story leaves James and the Ancient One tracking Mephisto’s plan around the Contract of San Venganza as Apocalypse’s followers capture Professor Carlisle Jackson.

• Charles Xavier formed the X-Men, and they saved 128 passengers from two colliding airliners before making their first public television appearance.
• After John Kennedy was assassinated, Charles searched for the truth while Hoover and Johnson pursued plans to control Mutants and capture Xavier.
• James Howlett launched the Wolf Calamity, and his allies rescued Xavier and Hank from Stryker’s institute as the Wolf Pack attacked officials across America.
• James confronted Johnson, forced political changes, and exposed Hoover, who was executed before a worldwide audience.
• James persuaded Robert Kennedy to cooperate, established plans for Mutant institutions, and promoted the claim that Mutant evolution was inevitable.
• James and Emma raised their family as Jean Grey entered the academy, while James asked Charles to lead Order Whip against supernatural crimes.
• Order Whip captured Gambit with the stolen Super Soldier Serum, while James and the Ancient One considered how to stop Mephisto from obtaining the Contract of San Venganza.
• Barton Blaze survived a failed stunt at the Quentin Carnival, and Apocalypse’s followers captured Professor Carlisle Jackson in Cairo.

Apocalypse awakened and gathered mutant allies, taking control of Wolf Tower and building a kingdom at Giza. While James Howlett sealed Mephisto away, the Order Whip forces fought Apocalypse’s Horsemen, and the arc ended with Apocalypse carrying the defeated Magneto toward his ruined throne.

• James Howlett took Carter Slade’s Contract of San Venganza, then Mephisto transformed Johnny Blaze into a Ghost Rider to retrieve it.
• Apocalypse awakened beneath the Egyptian ruins, destroyed the pyramid complex, and began recruiting mutants as his Horsemen.
• James Howlett and the Ancient One trapped Mephisto in the Mirror Dimension and sealed him on Earth, but James was left with Zarathos’s soul and Hellfire.
• Apocalypse recruited Alexandra Rasputin and Caliban, then attacked Wolf Tower, defeated Bucky, and freed its mutant prisoners.
• Apocalypse transformed Jason Stryker and other mutants into Horsemen and opened portals to gather mutants for his kingdom at Giza.
• Erik Lehnsherr, Steve Rogers, Bucky, and the Order Whip forces attacked Apocalypse’s city as Laura and Jean Grey followed the abducted mutants through a portal.
• Raven impersonated Apocalypse and helped capture Rasputin, while Peter transformed into steel and Steve’s group fought to reach Jason Stryker.
• Apocalypse broke through Magneto’s defenses and carried the still-breathing Erik toward the ruined throne after stopping Steve’s attack on Stryker.

James Howlett defeated Apocalypse, then gathered supernatural groups and extraordinary beings in Cairo to establish a new order. After confronting Namor and other challengers, he turned his attention to the Darkhold and the absent Eternals, leaving Earth braced for their return.

• James Howlett defeated Zarathos in the soul world and emerged from the San Venganza ruins to confront Apocalypse in Egypt.
• James killed Apocalypse, freed the captives, and took responsibility for the casualties while ordering the search for hidden superhuman organizations.
• Charles Xavier, Steve Rogers, and their allies brought supernatural groups and powerful figures to Cairo, including the Eternals’ hidden presence and Atlantis’s ruler Namor.
• Erik Lehnsherr fought Namor and brought him to Cairo, while Steve Rogers and Peggy Rogers persuaded Xu Wenwu to attend James’s gathering.
• Emma Howlett defeated Agatha Harkness in Salem, took the Darkhold, and brought the captive witch to James’s gathering.
• James revealed the Frost Giants, proposed registration and an Extraordinary Council, and burned Cain and his vampire companions to ash when they challenged his authority.
• James defeated Namor at sea and Xu Wenwu and Orson Randall in a martial arts contest, then secured the supernatural representatives’ agreement to the Supernatural Order.
• James examined the Darkhold and warned that the Eternals might serve a hidden master, then challenged whoever watched Earth as superhumans rose to prominence.