A Giant Size introduction

After attending ECCC last year I really wanted to start reading comics again but with most of mine in storage and not really wanting to handle my best books, I finally broke down and bought a few omnibuses and some digital comics. One of the omnibuses that I bought was the Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1. Containing the first issues of the new X-Men team written by Claremont and drawn by Cockrum and later Byrne. These were my favorite comics as a kid. I think I started reading X-comics in '84 and slowly tried to work my way back to Giant Size X-Men #1. In reading the omnibus, one of the things I'd forgotten was how surly the new X-Men were, particularly Wolverine and Thunderbird. Nevertheless I really enjoyed re-reading those books for the first time in nearly 30 years.

My dad bought me this copy of Giant Size X-Men #1 as a reward for good grades in high school in 1989. I really didn't know how to estimate a grade for a squarebound book. It has that typical wrinkling and the staples have made slight indentations in the cover. I estimated 7.0, so I was close but a little over.

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