The X-Men’s Hellfire Gala, mutantkind’s biggest—and sometimes deadliest—celebration, is back for another drama-filled night of mystery, betrayal and Omega level fashion in X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1, hitting stands in July.
As is tradition, X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1 will be written and drawn by a spectacular lineup of current X-Men creators including Jed MacKay (X-Men), Gail Simone (Uncanny X-Men), Eve L. Ewing (X-Men United), Saladin Ahmed (Wolverine), Erica Schultz (Rogue), Tony Daniel (X-Men), Luciano Vecchio (Uncanny X-Men), Federica Mancin (Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant) and more! Once more, the giant-sized one-shot serves as a capstone to the last year of X-Men storytelling with reunions and romance abound, and simultaneously sets the stage for what’s on the horizon with startling developments like the formation of an all-new Hellfire Club and the murder of a key mutant figure.
When a mutant power player is murdered at an exclusive masquerade hosted by Sebastian Shaw, it falls to Wolverine and Jubilee to solve a locked-room mystery that has dire consequences for all mutantkind. Everyone is a suspect. And the party isn’t over yet.
Leading the design efforts will be Marvel’s Stormbreaker artist Luciano Vecchio, following his work on last year’s Hellfire Gala issue, X-Men: Hellfire Vigil. A
“Doing Hellfire Gala designs is always a pleasure,” Vecchio said. “This time around, it’s a masquerade, so the challenge was to come up with looks that divert from each character’s classic iconography to reflect their mask’s theme. The dress code is a callback to classic Hellfire Club attire, so there’s 18th-century fashion mixed with corsets and leather gear, but mixing up the gendering of those elements, resulting in something elegant and sexy.”
Check out Vecchio’s cover along with a variant cover by R.B. Silva and RSVP for X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1 at your local comic shop today! For more information, visit Marvel.com.
X-MEN: THE HELLFIRE MURDER #1
Written by SALADIN AHMED, JED MACKAY, GAIL SIMONE, EVE L. EWING & ERICA SCHULTZ
Art by TONY DANIEL, LUCIANO VECCHIO, FEDERICA MANCIN & MORE
Cover by LUCIANO VECCHIO
Variant Cover by R.B. SILVA
Variant Cover by ROGÊ ANTÔNIO
Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
Variant Cover by TBA
Virgin Variant Cover by TBA
On Sale 7/22
Images via Marvel Comics
