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Great Ditko-esque splash page by Frank Miller and Bob Wiacek from Marvel Team-Up 100.
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Great Ditko-esque splash page by Frank Miller and Bob Wiacek from Marvel Team-Up 100.
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Marvel Team-Up 100 (Dec 1980) cover by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. Neat issue with first app. of Karma who would go on to be a charter member of the New Mutants. Issue features the hottest creators at Marvel at the time: Claremont, Miller, and in a backup teaming Storm & Black Panther, Byrne.
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Now listening to this classic. Almost 50 years old and still timely.
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Proof we’re living in the Bizarro World!
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X-Men 140 splash page doesn’t have much to do with the main story, but it’s a great image of Colossus and a cool character moment. I like how Claremont would sprinkle in these little vignettes, rather than a full biographical info dump. We slowly learn little bits & pieces.
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X-Men 140 (Dec 1980) cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin. This issue is a sequel of sorts to Wolverine’s first appearance in Hulk 181, as he and Nightcrawler team up with Alpha Flight to take on the Wendigo. Cool cover, too.
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When I first read X-Men 139 back in 1980, this panel really stood out to me. Glynis Wein did a masterful coloring job, and Nightcrawler’s inner monologue gave a lot of insight into his character. I found it pretty moving then, and it holds up now, too. Claremont/Byrne/Austin.
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Practically every page, every panel, in X-Men 139 is a real gem of comics art. But I had to share this awesome double pager of the team working out in the Danger Room. Art by Byrne & Austin, words by Claremont, colors by Glynis Wein and letters by Orzechowski.
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X-Men 139 (Nov 1980) cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin. This issue is jam-packed! Kitty joins the team, Wolverine gets a new uniform, the team has a Danger Room workout, Wolvie & Nightcrawler go to Canada to settle things with Alpha Flight. Plus… Wendigo! All this and more!
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X-Men Annual 4 (1980) cover by John Romita Jr. and Bob McLeod. The X-Men descend into a version of Dante’s Hell to save the soul of Nightcrawler with the aid of Dr. Strange. We also learn a bit more about Kurt’s origins. JRJr fairly early in his career does interior pencils.
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Oh for sure. In this instance, he was.
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“If Jean Grey had lived, X-Men 138 would have begun with this idyllic splash page… instead of the graveyard scene which was used instead.”
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X-Men 138 (Oct 1980) cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin. In the wake of Jean’s death, this issue summarizes the entire history of the X-Men in flashback. Bye Cyke! Bought this copy off the spinner at Maverick Market on Padre Island, TX while buying beer after a day at the beach.
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I keep trying to post the cover of X-Men 138, and the upload keeps timing out. Weird.
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If I’m trying to complete a collection or a certain run, it’s so I can (eventually) read them!
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Well, it worked on me! 🤷🏻♂️😂 The opportunity to see “new” Byrne/Austin X-Men art was the main draw.
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Jean Grey/Phoenix was originally meant to survive in X-Men 137. Her mutant powers would have been stripped by the Shi’ar and she’d have been returned to the X-Men, a shell of her former self. Here’s a discarded page that was eventually published in Phoenix The Untold Story.
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It’s interesting to see how they originally did the story. And there’s a lengthy round table discussion between all the creators and editors talking about the whole situation. But I wouldn’t say it’s essential (unless you’re a completist).
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Especially considering 2/3 of the story is just the same stuff we already got in issue 137.
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It was crazy expensive at the time!
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Phoenix - The Untold Story one-shot (Apr 1983) front and back cover by Byrne & Austin. Jean Grey/Phoenix was originally meant to live, until Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter decreed otherwise. This special issue shows that story (from X-Men 137) as originally conceived.
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Even though it was a clever way to bring Jean back, it kind of lessens the tragedy of this operatic moment. Kinda wish she’d stayed deceased.
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Interesting jumping on point. Better late than never. Point is, you did jump aboard!
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The tragic ending of Phoenix. From X-Men 137 (Sept 1980) by Claremont/Byrne/Austin/Wein/Orzechowski.
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The grand finale of the Jean Grey/Phoenix saga which began way back in X-Men 101. X-Men 137 (Sept 1980) appeared on the stands about a month after I graduated high school, and issue 101 (Oct 1976) came out during the summer before I started high school. 😳 Cover by Byrne/Austin.
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Opening splash page from X-Men 136. John Byrne & Terry Austin art. If the cover wasn’t pink enough for you, then try this.
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Thank you, brain.
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Oh, I didn’t remember there was a comic!
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X-Men 136 (Aug 1980) cover by John Byrne & Terry Austin. An iconic “Pieta” cover, and a powerful, emotional issue. The climax of the Dark Phoenix saga.
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I guess it was 1990 maybe?
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😂 And Red Skull was Italian! Wtf?
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This one is different from the TV movie. This was a low budget theatrical release. But yeah, I think S&K were not at all happy.
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Yeah, that’s better than nothing. Do you remember the really low budget Captain America movie from the late 80s? That one actually credited Stan Lee as the creator of the character. Stan wasn’t even working at Marvel yet when Joe & Jack created the character. 🙄
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Here’s is the page where Dark Phoenix devours a star, murdering billions of souls in the process. Never has a “superhero” committed mass murder on so grand a scale! Note the doomed plant-aliens in the bottom panel appear to be the same race as the alien from Avengers no. 4 (1964).
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Some cameos from around the Marvel universe as Dark Phoenix exults in her powers and takes off for space. X-Men 135 by Claremont/Byrne/Austin.
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X-Men 135 (July 1980) cover by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Phoenix becomes Dark Phoenix, flies into space, and devours a star thus murdering billions of aliens! Villainous! I picked up this copy at the YMCA Of The Rockies gift shop on a band trip my Senior year of high school.
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That’s the hole truth, and nothing butt…
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2 or 3 a day is my goal, is what I should have said. Lots of days when I only read one or zero. Once or twice I think I’ve read 4 in a day.
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I try to read 2 or 3 issues in a day when I have time.
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Apologies for any spoilers I might drop along the way. 😉 But it sure is fun reading.
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The first appearance of Dark Phoenix, on the last page of X-Men 134 by Claremont/Byrne/Austin.
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Phoenix leaves Mastermind a mindless, drooling shell of a man as payback for brainwashing her over a period of months. Karma’s a bitch. Claremont/Byrne/Austin from X-Men 134.
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I think it was actually the following issue. Seeing Scott get “killed” ultimately helps Jean snap out of it.
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X-Men 134 (June 1980) cover by John Byrne and Terry Austin. The final confrontation with the Hellfire Club, and Phoenix unleashed. It’s not good news for one of these teams. Maybe neither team! Another Marvel masterpiece!
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As it says on the cover of X-Men 133, Wolverine Lashes Out! And boy does he ever. Even though it was later retconned that he didn’t actually kill anyone… he’s definitely killing them here. Note the all red coloring (by Glynis Wein) in the panels where he takes them out!
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For sure.
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