Here is an archive of all the past top five lists I've one over the years.

Saturday's all right for fighting, so let's look at the top five X-Men/Magneto fights!

NOTE: It's surprising how relatively few great Magneto/X-Men fights there were. The famous Savage Land arc from Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, for instance, has a pretty weak resolution from a fight standpoint (excellent overall arc, though).

5. X-Men (Volume 2) #113

So the Legacy Virus is now cured and Genosha has become one of the most powerful nations on the planet and Magneto is in charge. He is preparing to declare war on humanity. Only a small group of X-Men can stop him, but things look bad when he seemingly kills one of the team members, Dazzler, early on.

But then the tide turns when Cyclops and Wolverine show up to help...













Scott Lobdell, Leinil Francis Yu and multiple inkers handled this story.

4. X-Men (Volume 2) #25

So Magneto has returned and he is scaring the world, so they try out a force field to surround Earth to keep Magneto up on his asteroid home. Well, he then cracks that force field and the electro magnetic pulse wreaks havoc around the world. So Xavier decides that enough is enough and takes a small strike force to Magneto's home base to end things once and for all...













Fabian Nicieza, Andy Kubert and Matt Ryan were the creative team on the issue.

Go to the next page for the top three!

3. X-Men #150

Magneto has sort of set up his own little island country and almost kind of sort of went to war with the Soviet Union. So the X-Men show up. Initially, their powers were cut off but then they are returned and they all get into a battle royale...













The true beginning of Magneto's redemption. Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, Bob Wiacek and Joe Rubinstein were the creative team on the issue.

2. X-Men #1-3 (Volume 2)

Chris Claremont's original swan song on the X-Men was also Magneto's swan song at the time, but not before we got to see Jim Lee and Scott Williams draw the heck out of some Magneto fights with the X-Men...











1. X-Men (Volume 1) #113

The All-New, All-Different X-Men first faced off against Magneto in Uncanny X-Men #104, where he trashed them badly in a manner of seconds before a distraction saved them.

Now, a year later, he showed up again in Uncanny X-Men #112 to finish what he started. He takes the team apart very easily, challenged only by Phoenix, who he is surprised to find such a formidable opponent. Sadly for her, her powers cut out at a bad time, and she is taken in. Wolverine is the last X-Man standing, but that does not last long.

At the end of #112, Magneto has the X-Men captive and he plans to have them held in captivity for the rest of their lives with a robotic Nanny taking care of them (similar, I suppose, to what happened to him when he was reduced to infancy).

Chris Claremont. John Byrne and Terry Austin continue the story in the next issue where Storm’s pickpocketing experience helps her out as she picks the lock on her chair. When Magneto comes back to the base (which is underneath a volcano in the Antarctic, natch), he discovers that the X-Men are free.

While the first time around, the X-Men tried fighting him one on one (and got beaten easily), this time, Cyclops is making them fight like a team...











Amazing stuff (although, boy, does Beast sound like a loser or what? "We're fighting for our lives, but it just isn't that fun anymore" Ugh.)

That's the top five! Agree? Disagree? Let me know!