Books : Essential X-Men, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
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by: Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785123767
ISBN: 0785123768
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 520
Publication Date: November 01, 2006
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 134128
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Wolverine! Nightcrawler! Storm! Colossus! Endowed with unique abilities, these mutants were summoned by Professor X to rescue the original X-Men, an underground organization sworn to protect those that fear and hate them. Relive their original adventures; discover the human within the hero and the truth behind the legend. Collects Giant-Size X-Men #1, X-Men #94-119.
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Rating:  - Black & white reprints of classic four-color comics...?
I honestly don't get the appeal of these books. Why bother making (or reading) black & white reprints of classic four-color comics...? I mean, yeah, the stories are still great and the original comics are hard to find, but a huge part of what made these comics great was the eye-popping artwork, including the bright primary colors: reading them in dull B&W is just plain wrong. Sure, the printing costs are lower, so you can get more pages for your money, but it's more pages of boring, not more ... Read More
Rating:  - The Begining of a Legend (Not Quite)
Any of you who thought that these were the first adventures of the X-men are in for a rude awakening. The X-men were created in 1963 by the man himself (drum roll please) Stan Lee. The adventures of the original team can be found in essential Uncanny X-men vol.1, Classic X-men vol. 2 and the last volume of the X-men Marvel Masterworks series (please forgive me, I forgot the exact number of that last one). That series was canceled in 1971 (don't ask me why it didn't sell, because I love it). These are ... Read More
Rating:  - Graphic SF Reader
Here is the beginning of the rise to greatness and immense popularity of the team of characters known as the X-Men. Claremont masterfully reinvents a cosmopolitan team of mutants from around the globe, after the east coast wasp whitebread incarnation we had known previously. Adding a more adult edge to their relationships is something that worked, big-time.
Rating: - Graphic Novel junkie
Ok, ok, I should say comic book junkie, because that's what they were called when I first started reading them some decades ago. This whole series of Essential X-men books are a fun read unless you get bogged down in details. I never did, I just enjoyed reading them. This is a great book. Enjoy
Rating: - The definitive essential edition of x-men volume 1
Finally, after a very long wait of ten years, THIS reprints the contents of X-Men volume 1 issues 94-119--plus the main feature of Giant-Size X-Men 1--in its "most essential" form: in glorious black and white (the emphasis were on the script (Claremont) and the inked pencil art (Cockrum and Byrne)). When the first ESSENTIAL X-MEN came out [circa 1996], it contained very obvious misprints:
(1) Instead of X-MEN issue 113, the reprint came from the version excerpted from the first story of Classic ... Read More
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