Comic book fans: when did Magneto die?

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I used to follow the Marvel mutant comics obsessively back in the '80s when I was in college. In the subsequent years I bought a few issues but didn’t keep up with them (especially since they seemed to proliferate in quantity but not (IMO) in quality during the '90s.)

So lately I heard that my favorite mutant, Magneto, was killed (presumably–yeah, I know this is Marvel and nobody really dies for good) by Sentinels on Genosha, where he was apparently in charge. I also heard that these events followed a fight with the X-Men in which Wolverine stabbed Mags.

While I have no intention of being dragged back into the whole X-universe, I do want to read this story arc. Can someone help me out by giving me the titles and issue numbers/dates where it appears (including at least everything from the fight with the X-Men through the death of Magneto–more if it’s relevant)? I sense a trip to the comics shop in my future…

Much appreciated! :slight_smile:

(Note to mods: I’m assuming this is a General Question since it has a (mostly) definitive answer. If not, thanks for moving it to Cafe Society.)

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Magneto died in one of Grant Morrison’s first issues of New X-Men (#117? – somewhere around there). I am reading Morrison’s title; it is the only current X-book I read and it’s been more than ten years since I followed them with any regularity, yet I do not find much a problem with prior continuity. Mostly Morrison is riffing off stuff from the Claremont-Byrne years of the 70’s and early 80’s.

–Cliffy

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I’ll move this thread to Cafe Society.

bibliophage
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You might want to ask this question in the Comic Book Guy thread. The SDMB’s resident Comic Book Guys are pretty active in there and may not catch this thread.