Product Description: 1969: The X-Men, Marvels poorest selling title, flagging in sales and on the verge of cancellation, was in dire need of a shot in the arm. A new direction. A new vision. Enter Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, and True Believer, you had better grab onto your hat and get ready for one of the most amazing evolutions in Marvel history! These two titanic talents threw caution to the wind with sensational stories that brought the X-Men in synch with the thriving youth culture of the late 60s. Adams lavish and dynamic visuals merged with Thomas challenging and contemporary stories to create a comic book series that throbbed with the pulse of the times like none other. Prepare yourself for the introduction of mutant mainstay Havok, the vampiric villainSauron, the Mutates, and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention, the Living Pharaoh, a classic team-up with Ka-Zar in the Savage Land, as well as the return of Magneto and Professor X! Unquestionably a high-water mark of the 60s X-Men, this massive volume, loaded with extras, caps offbut will not endthe original team X-Men Masterworks! Collecting X-MEN #54-66.
Truely Groundbreaking Masterwork... Finally the Masterwork title lives up its name here. Most of the X-men stories before this laid some solid groundwork, but are for the most part Marvel's version of the Doom Patrol, and rudimentary in that Silver Age way. Both early X-men and Doom Patrol had much to owe to Arnold Drake and Don Heck basic talents.
Here the Silver Age X-men are transformed into the Modern Age X-men by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams. Both Thomas and Adams have received more praise and recognition from other works, but it's these X-men stories that work best for me. This volume collects the end of the original X-men stories. The series continued on for some 30-some issues as reprints until the All New All Different Uncanny X-men kicked off the huge X-men phenomenon some years later, which was helmed by editor Thomas.
Man, reading these stories again... they still feel new and they are better most of the X-titles currently in print. I'd love to see Thomas and Adams team up again to pick up where they left off at the end of this collection.
Anything Goes Trivia
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