Curated playlist
Characters created by Chris Claremont
- Emma FrostEmma Frost made her first appearance in The Uncanny X-Men #129, published in January 1980, as an enemy of the X-Men. Decades of Marvel Comics stories later, she is one of that team's most central members and leaders. She is a mutant, one…
- Cable (character)Cable, the grim time-traveling soldier of Marvel Comics, first reached readers as a rumor. At the end of The New Mutants #86, dated February 1990, a teaser promised him for the next issue. He appeared nowhere in that issue's story. Even…
- Sabretooth (character)Sabretooth, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is believed to be Victor Creed, makes a point of finding Wolverine on his birthday. Writer Chris Claremont described the ritual in his own words. On every one of his birthdays, he said,…
- Kitty PrydeKitty Pryde is a Marvel Comics mutant who can pass through solid walls, and she owes her name to a real person. In 1973, an art student at Canada's Alberta College of Art and Design met a classmate named Kitty Pryde. His name was John…
- Rachel SummersRachel Summers is a Marvel Comics character whose surname was kept secret when she first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #141, published in January 1981. Writer Chris Claremont and artist and co-plotter John Byrne created her. Readers only…
- Gambit (Marvel Comics)Remy LeBeau, known to readers as Gambit, is a Cajun thief from New Orleans who became one of Marvel Comics' X-Men. Writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee created him. When he joined the team, few of his new colleagues trusted him, and…
- Mystique (character)Mystique, the blue-skinned shapeshifter of Marvel Comics, has an earliest recorded appearance in her own stories that dates to the years around 1900. At that time she lived in a male guise as a consulting detective. She formed a romance…
- Phoenix ForceThe Phoenix Force, a cosmic entity from Marvel Comics, once wiped out five billion inhabitants of a single planet. Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum created it, and it first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #101 in October 1976. Yet the saga that…
- Jubilee (character)"Actually, my name is Jubilee! 'Cause with me, every day's a celebration!" With that line, Jubilation Lee announced herself to readers in The Uncanny X-Men #244, dated May 1989. Marvel Comics writer Chris Claremont and artist Marc…
- Madelyne PryorMadelyne Pryor first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168, cover-dated April 1983, and nobody planned for her to become a villain. Writer Chris Claremont once summed up her opening storyline with a single exchange. Scott Summers, the X-Men's…
- Rogue (Marvel Comics)Rogue, the Marvel Comics heroine best known as a member of the X-Men, cannot touch another person without taking something from them. One brush of skin lets her absorb a person's life force, abilities, memories and superpowers. The longer…
- Legion (Marvel Comics)David Charles Haller, the Marvel Comics character known as Legion, may carry more than a thousand personalities in a single mind. Nobody knows the exact number, because his mind can create a new one whenever something shakes him, from…
- Sebastian Shaw (character)Sebastian Shaw, a supervillain in Marvel Comics, once escaped a prison cell by hitting himself with a book for eight hours straight. The cell had been built to soak up kinetic energy, so pounding on its walls would have been pointless.…
- Mister SinisterMister Sinister once helped sell pasta. In 1994, Chef Boyardee put the Marvel Comics villain in its advertising, which is an odd career for a character who experiments on mutants and orphans. He was popular enough by then to carry a brand.…