Essential X-Men #5 was published by Marvel UK/Panini UK on January 1, 2017, as part of a series that began in 2016. Cullen Bunn and Dennis Hopeless write, and art comes from Greg Land, Paco Diaz Luque and Victor Ibáñez. It features Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Jean Grey and Iceman, among 33 characters cataloged on VerseDB.