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Me and @adam.reck breakdown the big(?) reveal in Uncanny X-Men #28 and talk some more about how Luciano Vecchio is just operating on a higher level right now.
https://comicsxf.com/2026/05/13/uncanny-x-men-28-explains-why-warden-ellis-is-such-a-grouch/
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My four favorite #XFactor40 covers from April, featuring Chris Bachalo, Sal Buscema, Ron Frenz and Mike Mignola!
Which one is YOUR favorite?
#XMenADay #XMen #UncannyXMen #Avengers #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman #Quicksilver
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019 - Shadowcat
With this set apparently laid out in the short 4 issue window when Excalibur was composed of just three members, it also means it's the first set to feature Kitty in her new post-puffy blue sleeves look.
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131 - X-Factor #92 - 5/11/1993
Kicking off "Fatal Attractions" w/holograms & Exodus' 1st app!
Cover by Joe Quesada. Interiors by Scott Lobdell, JM DeMatteis & Quesada
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Quicksilver #Polaris #Frenzy #StrongGuy #Havok #Wolfsbane #Madrox #Random
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130 - Iron Man Annual #4 - 5/10/1977
I still have a soft spot for the Champions aka the "Miscellaneous Team."
Cover by Al Milgrom. Interiors by Bill Mantlo & George Tuska.
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014 - Jean Grey
Feels like maybe she should have deflected those missiles further out. 😏
I like the contrast between her somewhat sedate, demure posing and the energy depicted by the missiles and her hair.
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124 - X-Men #12 - 5/4/1965
1st appearance of Juggernaut! Featuring one of the best covers of the Silver Age run!
Cover by Jack Kirby. Interiors by Stan Lee, Kirby & Alex Toth.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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123 - Iron Fist #14 - 5/3/1977
1st appearance of Sabretooth! It's pretty wild how integral the last two Iron Fist issues are to the X-Men.
Cover by Dave Cockrum. Interiors by Chris Claremont & John Byrne
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120 - X-Force and Cable '97 - 4/30/1997
A sequel of sorts to the final "New Mutants in Asgard" story.
Cover by Adam Pollina. Interiors by John Francis Moore, Rob Haynes & Casey Jones.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #Cable #XForce #Caliban #BoomBoom #Siryn #Shatterstar #Rictor
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118 - X-Men Legends #3 - 4/28/2021
I find fuzzy Beast in the brown-&-yellow costume strangely alluring. Something about it works.
Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Louise & Walt Simonson.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenLegends #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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005 - Jubilee
Great card, though I don't love the way it almost seems like she's missing her right arm.
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New Previously On X-Men! Get all the notes and thoughts on the week's X-books!
Magik & Colossus continues to cook, X-Men United continues to...not.
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Marvel Masterpieces X-Men Blue Team!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #Wolverine #Psylocke #Rogue #Gambit #BillSienkiewicz #JulieBell #BrianStelfreeze #JoePhillips
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Cosmic Marvel!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #SilverSurfer #Thanos #Warlock #Draz #JulieBell #RayLago #LouHarrison
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023 - Legacy
Pretty clearly the unqualified success of this "new character w/a trading card" gimmick, going on to hold down multiple volumes of a solo series.
"Legacy" is still a pretty weak name, though.
Scans via tradingcarddb.com
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107 - Alpha Flight #12 - 4/16/1985
One of the seminal Alpha Flight images AND one of its oft-homaged covers.
Cover & interiors by John Byrne
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Marvel Masterpieces Midnight Sons!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #GhostRider #Morbius #Blade #Vengeance #BillSienkiewicz #BrianStelfreeze #TomPalmer #TristanSchane
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022 - Night Terror
Fun fact: Chris Bachalo drew this annual.
Scans via @tradingcarddb
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106 - New Defenders #145 - 4/16/1985
I've also liked the idea of putting the non-Cyclops & Jean X-Men in book at this time.
Cover by Mark Badger. Interiors by Peter B. Gillis & Don Perlin.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #NewDefenders #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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(West Coast) Avengers Assemble!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #AvengersWestCoast #USAgent #SpiderWoman #WarMachine #Hawkeye #FrankSpinks #TristanSchane #JoeJusko #RayLago
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104 - X-Factor #18 - 4/14/1987
In which it turns out the lawyer who crafted X-Factor's ill-advised anti-mutant public face is up to no good.
Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Simonson.
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 Excalibur cards!
Which one is YOUR favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Excalibur #CaptainBritain #Nightcrawler #Phoenix #JoePhillips #KentWilliams #LouHarrison
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103 - X-Factor #91 - 4/13/1993
Madrox contracts the Legacy Virus, putting him on the path towards becoming its most high profile victim.
Cover by Joe Quesada. Interiors by Scott Lobdell & Jan Duursema.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Havok #Polaris #Madrox #StrongGuy #Wolfsbane
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102 - Uncanny X-Men Annual #18 - 4/12/1994
This is the issue where it's revealed that part of Kitty's uniform can turn into nunchuks.
Cover by Ian Churchill. Interiors by Glenn Herdling & Churchill
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXMen #Annuals #Sabretooth #Caliban
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 Thors!
How do you prefer your Thor: classic, 90s, or space horse?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Thor #Thunderstrike #BetaRayBill #LouHarrison #JoeJusko #JoePhillips
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OG Defenders...uh, defend!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Hulk #DoctorStrange #Namor #SilverSurfer #BillSienkiewicz #MichaelWKaluta #JimSteranko #JulieBell
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097 - Wolverine (vol. 3) #13 - 4/7/2004
So do we think this is meant to be an homage to the cover of the first issue of the Claremont/Miller Wolverine mini?
Cover by Darick Robertson. Interiors by Greg Rucka & Robertson.
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My four favorite #XFactor40 covers from March!
Which one is your favorite?
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactorV3 #UncannyXMen #ExtraordinaryXMen #XFactor #Madrox #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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012 - The Assassin
For a nuclear-powered killer robot that dresses like a geisha, "Assassin" seems like a laughably generic name that is burying all kinds of ledes about the character.
Scans via @tradingcarddb
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009 - Kyllian
So obviously they couldn't just do "Killian" as a pun (ie KILLian) since that's just a name, but I don't know that "Kyllian" is much better.
Scans via tradingcarddb.com
#TradingCardADay #93A #DoctorStrange #Kyllian #GeoffIsherwood
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093 - Prisoner X #2 - 4/3/2019
I like that this a subtle homage to the iconic Polaris cover to X-Men #50.
Cover by Patrick Zircher. Interiors by Vita Ayala & German Peralta
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2 #FantasticFour!
(With Reed and Sue sitting this series out, we're getting flexible with the definition),
Which card is YOUR favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #HumanTorch #Thing #DoctorDoom #SheHulk #JimSteranko #GeorgePerez #GlennFabry #JoeJusko
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X-Men Gold! Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #UncannyXMen #Storm #Archangel #Colossus #Bishop #MichaelWKaluta #JoePhillips #JulieBell #BrianStelfreeze
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091 - Uncanny X-Men #356 - 4/1/1998
The beginning of an O5/Phoenix story that doesn't end up going anywhere cuz Seagle leaves the book.
Cover by Chris Bachalo. Interiors by Steve Seagle & Bachalo.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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X-Factor! Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XFactor #Forge #Polaris #Mystique #Havok #JoeJusko #DanLawlis #JoePhillips
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090 - X-Men Legends #2 - 3/31/2021
Featuring OG X-Factor in their OG X-Factor attire!
Cover by Iban Coello. Interiors by Fabian Nicieza & Brett Booth.
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenLegends #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman
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Long live the Leather Jacket Avengers!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Avengers #BlackNight #BlacKWidow #Hercules #Crystal #TomPalmer #JoeChiodo #RayLago #BretBlevins
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088 - Official Marvel Index to the X-Men #7 - 3/29/1988
JRjr with a riff on the end of "Dark Phoenix Saga."
Cover by John Romita Jr. Interiors by various
#XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #OfficialIndex #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast
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002 - Bantam
AKA Boxing Chicken Man
I get that the padded crotch piece is an important piece of boxing equipment, but maybe not the best piece to incorporate into your anti-hero attire.
Scans via tradingcarddb.com
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Friends and foes of Daredevil from Marvel Masterpieces Series 2!
Which one is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #Daredevil #Kingpin #BlackWidow #TyphoidMary #TristanShane #JohnRomita #JoeChiodo #BretBlevins #DaredevilBornAgain
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Marvel Masterpieces Series 2. The 90s called, they want their villains back.
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #MM2 #XMen #JoeJusko #BretBlevins #Stryfe #Cyber #OmegaRed #Deadpool
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New Previously On X-Men for @thecomicon.bsky.social! The Cyclops solo continues to be Good Comics, and I even kinda enjoyed a Deadpool comic (at the very least, it has a really fun two page sequence)!
The less said about X-Men of Apocalypse, the better.
#XMen #Deadpool #Cyclops #XSpoilers
https://comicon.com/2026/03/23/previously-on-x-men-cyclops-2-makes-the-grade/
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S8 - Xi'an
AKA Future Professor X
All jokes aside, I have always appreciated that the X-Men 2099 Professor X figure - the one around whom the X-Men gravitate - isn't a telepath.
Scans via @tradingcarddb
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S7 - Skullfire
AKA Future Cyclops/Havok
More or less the POV character of X-Men 2099, Tim is also a first ballot honoree in the "Ron Lim Hands" Hall of Fame.
Scans via tradingcarddb.com