#xmen50 — Public Fediverse posts
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366 - Firestar #2 - 12/31/1985
Closing out the year - and my #XMen50 project - with a reminder #JusticeForButterRum. 😄
Cover by Mary Wilshire. Interiors by Tom DeFalco & Wilshire.
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366 - Firestar #2 - 12/31/1985
Closing out the year - and my #XMen50 project - with a reminder #JusticeForButterRum. 😄
Cover by Mary Wilshire. Interiors by Tom DeFalco & Wilshire.
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366 - Firestar #2 - 12/31/1985
Closing out the year - and my #XMen50 project - with a reminder #JusticeForButterRum. 😄
Cover by Mary Wilshire. Interiors by Tom DeFalco & Wilshire.
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365 - X-Men: Liberators #4 - 12/30/1998
I don't remember much about this other than it being vaguely a celebration of these three being on a team again.
Cover by Phil Jiminez. Interiors by Joseph Harris & Jiminez.
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364 - Chaos War: X-Men #1 - 12/29/10
A rare (the only?) Thunderbird/Banshee solo joint, born of them both being dead at the time.
Cover by Carlo Pagulayan. Interiors by Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont & Doug Braithwaite
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363 - X-Men (vol. 2) #109 - 12/28/2000
A Christmas-themed Monster issue, reprinting X-Men #98, Uncanny #143 & #341 alongside an original story!
Cover by Leinil Francis Yu. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Thomas Derenick
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362 - Phoenix Resurrection #1 - 12/27/2017
Very early Bryan Hitch US cover work!
Cover by Leinil Francis Yu. Interiors by Matthew Rosenberg & Yu.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #PhoenixResurrection #Colossus #Storm #Nightcrawler #Wolverine
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361 - Marvel Comics Presents #44 - 12/26/1989
Very early Bryan Hitch US cover work!
Cover by Bryan Hitch. Interiors by various.
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360 - X-Men Classic #56 - 12/25/1990
Reprinting Uncanny X-Men #152!
Cover by Steve Lightle. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Bob McLeod
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #XMenClassic #Colossus #Wolverine #Storm #Nightcrawler
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359 - Uncanny X-Men (vol. 3) #29 - 12/24/2014
The gang's all here in this Marvel 75th variant!
Cover by Alex Ross. Interiors by Brian Michael Bendis & Chris Bachalo.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #UncannyXMenV3 #Colossus #Wolverine #Storm #Nightcrawler #Banshee #Sunfire #Thunderbird
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358 - X-Men Legacy #231 - 12/23/2009
The beginning of a rare pre-Krakoa "return of Proteus" story.
Cover by Adi Granov. Interiors by Mike Carey & Clay Mann.
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357 - X-Force #19 - 12/22/1992
That time Cannonball pwned Professor X with the whole "open hand/closed fist" metaphor.
Always enjoyed this one.
Cover by Greg Capullo. Interiors by Fabian Nicieza & Capullo.
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356 - Storm #1 - 12/21/1995
Storm's very first solo series, a five issue miniseries in which she battles Gene Nation in their exile dimension.
Cover by Terry Dodson. Interiors by Warren Ellis & Dodson.
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355 - Uncanny X-Men #243 - 12/20/1988
Uncanny's "Inferno" tie-ins come to a close with an iconic cover.
Cover by Marc Silvestri. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Silvestri
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #UncannyXMen #Storm #Colossus #Wolverine
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354 - Uncanny X-Men #401 - 12/18/2001
All else aside, I love the gag of putting Banshee on the cover of the silent issue.
Cover by Ron Garney. Interiors by Joe Casey & Garney.
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353 - Tales of the Age of Apocalypse - 12/18/1996
Notably, this return to the #AgeofApocalypse is a prequel and does not upend the conclusion of the story.
Cover by Adam Kubert. Interiors by Scott Lobdell, Ralph Macchio & Joe Bennet.
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352 - Excalibur # - 12/17/1991
Unofficial rule of this project: if there's a cover in which the characters are represented as chess pieces, it gets featured.
Cover by Alan Davis. Interiors by Davis.
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351 - Classic X-Men #7 - 12/16/1986
Reprinting X-Men #99
Leaving Wolverine off the cover just as was common when the original issue came out.
Cover by Art Adams. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Dave Cockrum.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #ClassicXMen #Storm #Colossus #Nightcrawler
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350 - What If? (vol. 2) #46 - 12/15/1992
A rare What If? 2-parter, this plays on the slowly dying anxiety about how Cable fit into the broader world of the X-Men.
Cover by Tod Smith. Interiors by Kurt Busiek & Smith.
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Celebrating the book's 1 year anniversary (but not really, because "Age of Apocalypse") with the debut of Emplate's Hellions.
Cover by Chris Bachalo. Interiors by Scott Lobdell,
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348 - X-Men Red (vol. 2) #18 - 12/13/2023
I wish they'd just given Al Ewing an Arakko book and let him cook for as long as he wants.
Cover byStefano Caselli. Interiors by Al Ewing & Yıldıray Çınar
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347 - X-Men #119 - 12/12/1978
Only missing Thunderbird! I believe this is the only time we've gotten that close on a cover.
Cover by Dave Cockrum. Interiors by Chris Claremont & John Byrne
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Colossus #Storm #Nightcrawler #Banshee #Wolverine #Sunfire
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346 - Uncanny X-Men #191 - 12/11/1984
I know it has its detractors but I love the Kulan Gath story. It's like a whole crossover event jammed into 2 issues!
Cover by John Romita Jr. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Romita Jr.
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345 - Nightcrawler (vol. 4) #9 - 12/10/2014
After coming back from his Second Coming death, Nightcrawler had a nice little run in the spotlight for a bit there.
Cover by Todd Nauck. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Nauck
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #NightcrawleV4 #Storm #Colossus #Nightcrawler
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344 - Uncanny X-Men #215 - 12/9/1986
Storm vs. the Murder Grampas!
The orange background is striking but I've never been able to decide if it was intentional or just a rush job.
Cover by Alan Davis. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Davis.
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343 - X-Men Legends #9 - 12/8/2021
Tan with an homage to Todd McFarlane's Incredible Hulk #340 cover.
Cover by Bill Tan. Interiors by Larry Hama & Tan.
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343 - X-Men Legends #9 - 12/8/2021
Tan with an homage to Todd McFarlane's Incredible Hulk #340 cover.
Cover by Bill Tan. Interiors by Larry Hama & Tan.
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343 - X-Men Legends #9 - 12/8/2021
Tan with an homage to Todd McFarlane's Incredible Hulk #340 cover.
Cover by Bill Tan. Interiors by Larry Hama & Tan.
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342 -Uncanny X-Men #167 - 12/7/1982
The Brood Saga concludes with simply one of the best X-Men issues, period.
Cover by Paul Smith. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Smith.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #UncannyXMen #Wolverine #Storm #Colossus #Nightcrawler
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341 - Marvel Age #12 - 12/6/1983
Keep telling the secrets, Marvel Age, and it won't be a Secret War!
Cover by Mick Zeck. Interiors by various
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #MarvelAge #Wolverine #Storm #Colossus #Nightcrawler
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340 - Uncanny X-Men #258 - 12/5/1989
Doesn't quite seem fair that Mandarin gets full armor & Wolverine is fighting nearly in the altogether.
Cover by Jim Lee. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Lee.
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339 - X-Men (vol. 5) #3 - 12/4/2019
Sunfire!
I generally tend to avoid variants in this project if I can help it, but I couldn't pass up a Sunfire cover.
Cover by Alex Ross. Interiors by Jonathan Hickman & Leinil Francis Yu.
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338 - Excalibur: Air Apparent - 12/3/1991
Continuing a mini run of Nightcrawler covers w/a superfluous one-shot about Galactus' dead robot herald that maybe was going to be an MCP story.
Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Scott Lobdell & various.
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337 - Dazzler #1 - 12/2/1980
You know we're in pre-Wolverine popularity explosion days because Nightcrawler, not Wolverine, makes the cover.
Cover by Bob Larkin. Interiors by Tom DeFalco &
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336 - Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn - 12/1/1987
The X-universe gets bigger & British-er with the debut of Excalibur!
Cover by Alan Davis. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Davis.
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334 - Saga of Crystar Crystal Warrior #6 - 11/29/1983
Great attention-grabber from Golden as Marvel tries to cross-sell its in-house toy tie-in book.
Cover by Michael Golden. Interiors by Mary Jo Duffy & Ricardo Villamonte.
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326 - Penance Relentless #3 - 11/21/2007
Remember Penance? Poor Speedball. What a time.
Cover by Paul Gulacy. Interiors by Paul Jenkins & Gulacy
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326 - Penance Relentless #3 - 11/21/2007
Remember Penance? Poor Speedball. What a time.
Cover by Paul Gulacy. Interiors by Paul Jenkins & Gulacy
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326 - Penance Relentless #3 - 11/21/2007
Remember Penance? Poor Speedball. What a time.
Cover by Paul Gulacy. Interiors by Paul Jenkins & Gulacy
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325 - X-Men #130 - 11/20/1979
46 years ago today, Dazzler makes her debut!
Check out the abs on Cyclops! JRjr makes him *shredded*
Cover by John Romita Jr. Interiors by Chris Claremont & John Byrne.
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324 - Marvel Holiday Special #1 - 11/19/1991
Only 36 more shopping days 'til X-Mas! 🙃
This is the issue which establishes Santa Claus as a canonical mutant.
Cover by Art Adams. Interiors by various.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Banshee #Wolverine #Colossus #Storm #Nightcrawler
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323 - Classic X-Men #6 - 11/18/1986
Reprinting X-Men #98. A slight upgrade to the original, in that it features Banshee.
Cover by Art Adams. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Dave Cockrum.
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320 - Marvel Comics Presents #15 - 11/15/1988
Ron Lim has always drawn a nice Colossus.
Cover by Ron Lim. Interiors by various.
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318 - X-Men Gold #1 - 11/13/2013
Fun fact: one of my very first freelancing gigs was a review of this issue (for a long-defunct site).
Cover by Oliver Coipel. Interiors by various.
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316 - X-Men #64 - 11/11/1969
Sunfire! First Appearance!
Kind of wild that both Banshee & Sunfire debuted in the same month (albeit 3 years and 8 days apart).
Cover by Sal Buscema. Interiors by Roy Thomas & Don Heck
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313 - Legion of X #7 - 11/8/2022
Remember when Banshee was a Ghost Rider?
Cover by Ben Harvey. Interiors by Simon Spurrier & Netho Diaz.
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312 - Uncanny X-Men #492- 11/7/2007
More like the Cross Hatch-Men, amiright? 😏
Cover by David Finch. Interiors by Ed Brubaker & Billy Tan.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Nightcrawler #Wolverine #Colossus #Storm #UncannyXmen #MessiahComplex
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308 - X-Men #28- 11/3/1966
The debut of Banshee (in a story recently referenced in Astonishing X-Men)!
Also, sorry cover blurb, but having met Ogre, I am certain I could've waited.
Cover by Werner Roth. Interiors by Roy Thomas & Roth,
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303 - Secret Invasion: X-Men #3 - 10/29/2008
Remember when Marvel would do big linewide event crossovers & the X-Men would just get an ancillary miniseries and be otherwise ignored?
Cover by Terry Dodson. Interiors by Mike Carey & Ma Sepulveda.
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301 - Classic X-Men #18 - 10/27/1987
One of the best of Adams' Classic X-Men covers.
Cover by Art Adams. Interiors by Chris Claremont & John Byrne.
#XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Storm #Wolverine #Nightcrawler #Colossus #Banshee #ClassicXMen