Chris Claremont (November 30, 1950- ) is a comic book writer, best known for his 16-year (1976-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties. Claremont's soap opera approach to the ensemble cast of X-Men set the standard for team-based comic books for decades. Claremont also promotes strong female characters.

As an entry into comic writing Claremont was given the fledgling title, Iron Fist in 1974 that also teamed him with John Byrne for the first time. Len Wein then gave him the writing duties for the relaunched X-Men. Claremont also found narrative excuses to sideline Professor X, as one of the problems with the original X-Men series was that the Professor would appear at the end of the story to magically correct the situation no matter how dire.

Claremont wrote or co-wrote many classic X-Men stories such as "the Phoenix Saga", "Dark Phoenix Saga", and "Days of Future Past". He also co-created numerous important X-Men characters, including Rogue, Shadowcat, Phoenix, Sabretooth, Mystique, Emma Frost, Rachel Summers, Dazzler, Mister Sinister and Captain Britain. He also helped launch best-selling spin-offs such as New Mutants, Excalibur, and Wolverine.

Chris is holding Uncanny X-men #94, his very first X-men book. Now Sold Out at Elfsar!