X-MEN GIANT SIZE (1975) #1
CGC NM: 9.4
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1st app of the new X-Men (Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, & Thunderbird), 2nd full app of Wolverine; Kane/Cockrum cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 10 (CBI)
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1st app of the new X-Men (Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, & Thunderbird), 2nd full app of Wolverine; Kane/Cockrum cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 10 (CBI)
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white pgs
1st app of the new X-Men (Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, & Thunderbird), 2nd full app of Wolverine; Kane/Cockrum cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 10 (CBI)
Few comics have had the impact of 1975’s Giant-Size X-Men #1. Len Wein and Dave Cockrum introduced a whole new team of mutant heroes to take over Marvel’s long-running title, with the new characters debuting here before going on to to take over the regular X-Men title with issue #94. Numerous X-titles would continue through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and the mutant super team would launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (Comic fans are hotly anticipating a new franchise of X-Men films under the Marvel Studios banner, with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine returning for the third Deadpool film.) To this day, the mutant team and their spin-offs continue to be amongst Marvel's best-selling books.
Artists Information
David Emmett Cockrum was an American comics artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus as well as the antiheroine Black Cat. Cockrum was a prolific and inventive costume designer who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He did the same for the new X-Men and many of their antagonists in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
Werner Roth is an American comic book artist who's worked with Marvel's predecessor Atlas during the golden age of comics. Werner was also notably the artist who took over the X-men series after Jack Kirby left. Roth's other famous works include Lorna, the Jungle Girl and Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.
1st app of the new X-Men (Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, & Thunderbird), 2nd full app of Wolverine; Kane/Cockrum cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 10 (CBI)
Few comics have had the impact of 1975’s Giant-Size X-Men #1. Len Wein and Dave Cockrum introduced a whole new team of mutant heroes to take over Marvel’s long-running title, with the new characters debuting here before going on to to take over the regular X-Men title with issue #94. Numerous X-titles would continue through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, and the mutant super team would launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (Comic fans are hotly anticipating a new franchise of X-Men films under the Marvel Studios banner, with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine returning for the third Deadpool film.) To this day, the mutant team and their spin-offs continue to be amongst Marvel's best-selling books.
Artists Information
David Emmett Cockrum was an American comics artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus as well as the antiheroine Black Cat. Cockrum was a prolific and inventive costume designer who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He did the same for the new X-Men and many of their antagonists in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
Werner Roth is an American comic book artist who's worked with Marvel's predecessor Atlas during the golden age of comics. Werner was also notably the artist who took over the X-men series after Jack Kirby left. Roth's other famous works include Lorna, the Jungle Girl and Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.