Marvel's X-Men spinoff Tomb of Apocalypse has quietly put out most of its run, with writer Ashley Allen and artist Domenico Carbone sending Wolverine and Jubilee into Apocalypse's own tomb in Egypt.
Issue 5, confirmed for December 16, 2026 and titled A Horseman Will Rise, is set to close the series with one X-Man taking on Apocalypse's own mantle.
If you're coming in now, here's the full issue-by-issue order so far, with enough plot context to jump in without having bought every single issue already.
This also covers how to keep single issues protected while chasing down the run before the finale.
Issue 1 kicks off with Apocalypse drawing Wolverine and Jubilee toward his own tomb in Egypt, where a Celestial artifact buried with him becomes the thing everyone in the series is actually after.
Rictor and Shatterstar round out the team sent in after them, giving Allen four very different X-Men to work with across the run.
Issue 2 keeps the team inside the tomb itself, with the setting's own traps and Apocalypse's lingering influence proving as dangerous as anything the team expected going in.
This is the issue that starts making clear the tomb isn't just a location, it's an active threat built around whoever's inside it.
Issue 3 is confirmed for October 28, 2026, continuing straight out of issue 2's deeper descent into the tomb without a creative team change.
With three of five issues landing roughly every five weeks, this has been one of the more consistently scheduled X-Men limited series of the back half of 2026.
Issue 4, confirmed for November 18, is the last stop before the finale, and based on the pacing so far it's the issue most likely to set up exactly which team member ends up in the most danger.
Allen has kept Rictor and Shatterstar as real participants rather than background characters, so either of them is as much a candidate for the finale's twist as Wolverine or Jubilee.
Marvel's own solicitation for issue 5, titled A Horseman Will Rise, confirms Jubilee, Wolverine, Rictor, and Shatterstar all get overwhelmed by the tomb's dangers, and that one of them doesn't walk away unscathed.
The same solicitation confirms one X-Man becomes the next Horseman of Apocalypse, which is as direct a finale hook as Marvel tends to give before an issue actually ships.
With four of five issues already out and the finale just under four months from issue 1, Tomb of Apocalypse is close enough to its own ending that reading it as one complete arc makes more sense than treating it as an ongoing pickup.
Grabbing the earlier issues now, while they're still at cover price, is also the cheaper way in before a confirmed Horseman twist pushes interest in the full run — especially once each issue is sitting behind a current-age comic backer board instead of loose in a stack.
Tomb of Apocalypse runs as a spinoff rather than a tie-in to any single ongoing X-Men title, which means you don't need to be caught up on the main X-Men books to follow Wolverine and Jubilee's trip into the tomb.
That makes it a reasonable entry point if you've drifted away from the main X-Men line but still want a focused, self-contained story featuring characters you already know.
It also means the Horseman twist in issue 5 is built to resolve within this series itself, rather than setting up a cliffhanger that only pays off in a separate ongoing book.
December 16, 2026 is a crowded release date on Marvel's own schedule, also marking the launch of the unrelated Wolverine: Origin III the same week.
That overlap is worth knowing if you're budgeting a pull list for mid-December, since two significant single-issue releases landing in the same week means planning ahead for both rather than discovering one after the other sells through.
Five issues total, with issue 5 as the confirmed December 16 finale.
Ashley Allen writes and Domenico Carbone draws the full run.
Marvel's solicitation confirms one X-Man becomes the next Horseman of Apocalypse.
No, Marvel hasn't named which team member it is as of this guide.
With four issues already out and the Horseman twist confirmed but not yet revealed, now is the point to read the full Tomb of Apocalypse run in order before the finale answers the question everyone's asking.
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