With all the excitement about JLA and DOOM PATROL, this re-release of JB's early work on X-MEN seems to have fallen through the cracks!
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: UNCANNY X-MEN VOL. 3 includes 111-121, reprinting the second part of the Alpha Flight story for the first time in a MASTERWORKS edition. (Maybe the first-ever color reprint?)
I just picked it up at MileHighComics.com for $35.00. Anyone want to buy a boatload of CLASSIC X-MEN issues?
I picked this book up today, as well. When I got back to work, I mentioned to a friend that I picked up "the new Marvel Masterworks, with the new X-Men." He seemed puzzled, and said "I thought you didn't like the New X-Men."
When I realized that I still think of the team that was created 25 years ago as the "new" team, I felt very, very old.
So it was! ***slaps forehead*** I already owned X-MEN #119 up when CLASSIC X-MEN started, so I stopped buying the reprints after #24 or so.
My funds were limited at the time CLASSIC X-MEN was coming out, and $1.00 an issue was an attractive alternative to the inflated back issue prices of those days, especially with the added value of the Art Adams covers and the (hit and miss) short stories by Claremont and John Bolton.
I never had an urge to pick up the originals when I became an adult with money to burn -- but I do love me some MARVEL MASTERWORKS!
I picked this book up today, as well. When I got back to work, I mentioned to a friend that I picked up "the new Marvel Masterworks, with the new X-Men." He seemed puzzled, and said "I thought you didn't like the New X-Men."
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The "All New, All Different" (even tho they were neither) X-Men will always be the "new" X-Men to me. Even when I was working on them, I knew they were not the real X-Men. That was why I kept agitating to bring in Angel and Iceman and whoever else we could lay our hands on.
And that was why XHY was such a dream project -- the dream project, really -- for me.
Yes, Amazing Spider-Man Volume 6 (or Masterworks Volume 33 for the marble covers) will be released in April. It should contain issues 51-61 and Annual 4. Check out this site for Masterworks news and message boards. It's a great resource.
Wow. Cool to read that about Angel and Iceman. They were the reason I bought that Hulk Annual JB drew. The original X-Men. They were why I bought the Champions. I even liked the red and white variation of Angel's blue and white costume.
I bought the Avengers because Hank McCoy was in it. And the all-new, all-different X-Men had Cyclops and Jean Grey in it.
I got all my characters, I just had to look around Marvel Comics to read them.
Collecting comics was fun in those days. It often still is.
What I find odd is how the Masterworks and Essentials are backwards...
I mean... the Original X-Men are "Uncanny X-Men" for the Essentials (and still only have one volume?), while the New X-Men are the "Uncanny X-Men" for the Masterworks.
Just a minor thing, but could lead to confusion.
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