Set Description
1970-1975 X-men appearances. This set has become a labor of love. It features all true X-men and X-villain appearances made during the time between teams when the X-men title ended its run of new stories with issue #66 (March 1970) and entered reprint mode, and when the new team/stories started with issue #94 (August 1975). What were the X-men and X-villains up to during this time? How did the comic book creators of the day keep these characters alive that we had so foolishly cast aside? Thats what this set is about.
Check out this special announcement from Stan Lee at the conclusion of X-men #66…
“This is the final issue of THE X-MEN.
At least for the time being. Though Roy (Thomas) and Neal (Adams) have devoted long hours to recent issues (as have our fill-in artists)- and though a mountain of mail has assured us that many Marvelites truly enjoy the job they’ve been doing- the plain truth is that the magazine’s sales don’t warrant our continuing this title. We feel that the artists and writers involved can better devote their time to other projects, other characters.
And so the X-men go on the shelf.
We doubt if they’ll stay there, though. Our misunderstood mutants, like most of our other heroes, have often seemed to possess a life all their own- and we’ve got an educated hunch that they’ll be zooming into the pages of various Marvel mags in the not-too-distant future. Shed no tears for them, friends; they’ll be around.”
Marvel kept their promise, and this set is living proof. Enjoy!
