X-Men (vol. 2) #207
Title: “Messiah Complex: Chapter Thirteen”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Mar. 2008
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X-Men #207 (with a cover date of March 2008) is the last issue of this series under the simple title X-Men. This is the title the series began with, in October of 1991, as the "second volume" of X-Men, a companion series to The Uncanny X-Men. This series went by the title X-Men during most of its run up to this point, with the exception of issues 114 through 156, during which time the title was changed to New X-Men. (The "New X-Men" phase of the series corresponded to writer Grant Morrison's run on the title.)
With the close of the "Messiah Complex" storyline, which was an X-Men crossover event which spanned multiple X-Men-related titled for multiple months, there were some changes in the series. One of these changes was the change in focus of the X-Men volume 2 series. The series began highlighting Professor Charles Xavier as the central character, in an ongoing adventure that had the X-Men founder revisiting many events in X-Men history. The title of the series was changed from X-Men to X-Men: Legacy, and the series continued with the current numbering, in X-Men: Legacy #208.
The long-running Uncanny X-Men title continued unabated. The place of an ongoing series simply titled X-Men (adjectiveless) would remain vacant until the debut of X-Men volume 3, with a new X-Men #1, focusing on a war between mutants and vampires, published in 2010. The creation of that series essentially eradicated any chance that X-Men: Legacy would ever revert back to being simply X-Men.
