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The title was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, met with a lukewarm reception, and eventually became a reprints-only book in 1970. Interest was rekindled with 1975's Giant-Size X-Men #1 and the debut of a new, international team.
1 day ago · After all, the lead character is named Xavier, and he develops vision powers that he needs special glasses to control. The answer is, well, Lee may have seen X, but if he did, he probably, uh, marveled at the coincidence: The X-Men #1 hit the stands in July 1963, and X debuted in September 1963. Maybe both Lee and Corman were peeking into ...
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Launched in 1963 as The X-Men by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the title starred five of a new kind of super-hero: mutants born with their abilities rather than having them granted. Led by their paraplegic leader Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel and Marvel Girl were students in a school formed to teach them how to use their powers. Many of the early issues pitted the team against the villain Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, by the time the creative reins were handed over to R...
Hiatus
Sales of The X-Men remained sub-par, even through an acclaimed run by Thomas and artist Neal Adams and the book ended runs of new stories after issue #66 in March, 1970. Nine months later, the book began re-printing back issues bi-monthly. This proceeded until Marvel began promoting Giant Size versions of many of its titles and it was decided to give the X-Men a whole new look and feel. With 1975's Giant Size X-Men #1, a new team, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum was rolled out. Character...
All-new, all-different
Claremont hit the ground running and didn't look back. He began immediately with an impact in killing off new member Thunderbirdand introducing a drastic redesign of Marvel Girl as Phoenix. He quickly took the team through the cosmos, introducing the Shi'ar Empire and just as easily brought them back for down-to-earth stories. He reintroduced new takes on old characters - most notably providing Magneto with his Holocaust-centered origin and removing the more tyrannical aspects of his Silver A...
The title was cancelled in 2011 and relaunched starting with Issue #1 and a new team of X-Men lead by Cyclops. The first issues were part of the X-Men event known as Regenesis.
The title's second volume ended with Issue 20# following the ending of the Avengers VS. X-Men event, and was relaunched in February 2013 with issue #1 for Volume threeof the series.
When did X-Men become Uncanny X-Men? The X-Men comic book debuted in September 1963 with #1, written and illustrated by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, respectively. It introduced Warren Worthington III (Angel), Hank McCoy (Beast), Scott Summers (Cyclops), Robert Drake (Iceman), and Jean Grey (Marvel Girl) as the five “original” X-Men, also ...
Giant Size X-men- Jump starts the X-Men in May 1975. The Uncanny X-Men- from approx 1991, dual publications of the X-Men and The Uncanny X-Men with different squads of X-men in each publication. See ‘’Spin-offs and crossovers’’ in the link.
The first page notes, "Twenty years ago, more or less, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Uncanny X-Men." The first issue of the series was published in September, 1963 therefore the 20-year mark was actually September, 1983 .
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September 01, 1963. Writer. Stan Lee. Penciller. Jack Kirby. This is where it all began. It's the X-Men vs. the Master of Magnetism! The legendary art of Jack Kirby's cover harks back to a more simple time for the masked mutants and belies the difficult and complicated future that is to come.
