Excalibur by Claremont & Davis

Chris Claremont · Alan Davis

Story era 05 · The Gauntlet Years

Claremont and Davis give Excalibur a playful multiversal identity through the Cross-Time Caper and the team’s later resolutions.

0 of 2 books owned2,216 pages78 full issues

Setup & reading order

Optional context & path

Useful background and earlier stops: Claremont X-Men Phase 3 — Massacre to Inferno.

Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.

About these books · 4 sources

Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.

r/comicbooks — Are Excalibur and New Mutants worth it? (opens in a new tab)Readers
Comic Book Herald — Excalibur Vol. 1 Omnibus review (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
Penguin Random House (opens in a new tab)Publisher
Wikipedia — Excalibur by Claremont & Davis (opens in a new tab)Reference

The books

UnownedExcalibur Omnibus Vol. 1Chris Claremont · Alan Davis1,136 pp

Excalibur Omnibus Vol. 1

Omnibus hardcover · 1,136 pages · Unowned

Book 1 of 2 · The Gauntlet Years

Kitty, Kurt, Rachel, Brian, and Meggan form Excalibur and launch the Cross-Time Caper.

Released 1 Dec 2020 · 1,136 pages · Alan Davis cover9781302926663Planned edition

Excalibur Special Edition (1987)#1

Excalibur (1988)#1–34

Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem (1989)#1

Quasar (1989)#11

Thor (1966)#427–429

Marvel Comics Presents (1988) (partial — Excalibur material)#31–38

Earth-616 PrimaryMultiverse Mixed worlds

Excalibur #6–7 repeat in Inferno. Keep those chapters here for the team’s continuous story, or read them with the event and skip them on returning; Marvel Comics Presents #31–38 contribute only the Excalibur serial.

Edition sources

Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.

UnownedExcalibur Omnibus Vol. 2Chris Claremont · Alan Davis1,080 pp

Excalibur Omnibus Vol. 2

Omnibus hardcover · 1,080 pages · Unowned

Book 2 of 2 · The Gauntlet Years

Alan Davis resolves the title’s long-running multiversal and Captain Britain plots.

Released 8 Feb 2022 · 1,080 pages · Alan Davis cover9781302932282Planned edition

Excalibur (1988)#35–67

Excalibur: Weird War III (1990)#1

Excalibur: The Possession (1991)#1

Excalibur: Air Apparent (1991)#1

Excalibur: XX Crossing (1992)#1

The Sensational She-Hulk (1989)#26

Marvel Comics Presents (1988) (partial — Excalibur material)#75, #110

Earth-616 PrimaryMultiverse Mixed worlds

Marvel Comics Presents #75 supplies Meggan and Shadowcat’s “Charmed Lives!” and #110 supplies Nightcrawler’s “Night of the Ripper.” These are complete short adventures for individual teammates, so the omitted anthology pages do not leave either story unfinished.

Edition sources

Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.

Duplication across this project

These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.

2 shared full issues — Excalibur Omnibus Vol. 1 ↔ X-Men: Inferno OmnibusThese books share full issues; the list identifies the repeated stories.

Show exact issues

Excalibur (1988) #6Excalibur (1988) #7

Things to know

Collecting rule: Start with the team-forming Special Edition in Vol. 1, then continue to Vol. 2. The late-eighties X-Men events explain the wider backdrop and remain optional context.

Two large books include substantial multiversal detours and specials.
Inferno repeats Excalibur #6–7 from Vol. 1.