Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM, KATHRYN IMMONEN, DAVID VonALLMAN & RICH KOSLOWSKI Penciled by DAVE WILKINS, STUART IMMONEN, & ANDREA DIVITO Cover by MIKE DEODATO The premiere comics anthology gets invadedby Magneto! Witness a tale of the beginnings of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch gueststarring. Meanwhile, Hellcat continues battling for her very survival, Weapon Omega faces down demons both internal and external, and a routine murder investigation has lead to somethingor someonecalled the Vanguard!
Maxim Eisenhardt (alias Erich Magnus Lehnsherr), a Jew (who also happened to be a mutant) growing up in Nazi Germany, was a witness to the horrors of the Holocaust. After World War II ended, Maxim became resentful of the humans who persecuted not only the Jews, but also mutantkind. Taking the name Magneto, he formed the Brotherhood of Mutants in order to destroy Homo sapiens and build a new society for mutants. He has two children--Pietro (Quicksilver) and Wanda (Scarlet Witch) Maximoff.