X-Men: The Hidden Years #1 (Dec. 1999):
“Once More the Savage Land”
by John Byrne, Tom Palmer

X-Men: The Hidden Years #1

Title: “Once More the Savage Land”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1999

Publisher:
Written by: John Byrne
Art by: John Byrne, Tom Palmer

Number of Pages: 38

32 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Havok (Alex Summers)	Catholic (lapsed)	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Dark Descendants; Magistrates; Old Landon College; Starjammers; X-Factor; X-Men [Cyclops' brother]		592
Lorna Dane	Jewish Catholic	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Starjammers; The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men [studied geophysics in college]		464
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
Sentinels (flashback)	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder) (flashback)		[aristocrat; fisherman...]		315
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (flashback)	Shinto	Asian; Big Hero 6...  C-Corps; Horsemen of Apocalypse; Pacific Overlords; The Marauders; The Twelve; X-Corporation; X-Men		259
Changeling (Kevin Sydney) (flashback)		Factor Three; X-Men		23
Sauron (Karl Lykos) (flashback)		Brotherhood of Mutants; Savage Land Mutates...  Weapon X		100
Mesmero (Vincent) (flashback)	mutant supremacist	The Demi-Men; Weapon X [stage hypnotist]		54
The Living Monolith (Ahmet Abdol) (flashback)	Egyptian classical religion: Cult of the Living Monolith (leader)	Children of the Sun (leader); The Twelve		46
Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters		[high school]		373
Lorelei (Lani Ubana) (flashback)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Savage Land Mutates		10
Amphibius		Savage Land Mutates		45
Swamp Men (details)  Toward end of story, soon after X-Men enter Savage Land they're knocked out and captured by group of Savage Land natives. We're presuming these are Swamp Men, but have not yet verified this.	Swamp Men religion	[worshipped Umbu the Unliving]		17
Larry Trask (flashback)	anti-mutant	Federal Council on Mutant Activities [mutant son of anti-mutant Sentinel inventor]		46
Z'Nox (flashback)	alien	[amoral, cruel, decadent reptillian alien race]		12
Tanya Anderssen (flashback)		[Sauron's long-time girlfriend since he was young]		14
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Grotesk (Gor-Tok) (flashback)	Gortokian religion	Gortokian		18
Savage Land Mutates		[1st app: X-Men (vol. 1) #62 (Nov. 1969)]		155
Sentinels Mk II (flashback)	anti-mutant robots	Sentinels		9
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (flashback cameo)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (flashback cameo)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
the sun (flashback cameo)  Prof. Xavier, newly reunited with the X-Men has them open their minds to him to learn what he missed, including Cyclops' unique way of defeating the Sentinels, by having them attack the sun.	sentient star	[living embodiment of earth's sun]		4
Magneto (robot) (flashback cameo)  Prof. Xavier, newly reunited with the X-Men has them open their minds to him to learn what he missed, including Mesmero in the employ of Magneto, who was actually a robotic duplicate.	N.A.	The Demi-Men		5

This publication is also known as: The X-Men (vol. 1) #67.

This story is divided into 3 parts:
- Epilogue (6 pages; recounts events at the end of X-Men vol. 1 #66, the last issue of new stories published before the original series began printing re-print material)
- Prologue (11 pages)
- Once More the Savage Land (21 pages; all-new story)

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