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Owned over the collecting years:

Game changer? No. Multiple copies? No. Familiarity was with the original X-Men team. It took Giant Size #1 and several issues of the regular series to become familiar with the names, powers, and personalities of the new team members. Yes, I was familiar with Wolvie from his appearances in Hulk, but he didn't strike me as a big deal from those first appearances. It also took me time to come to enjoy the plots and scripting. By ish 100, it was apparent this was a cool, fresh, and enjoyable team and title. But by then, I was heading off to graduate school and starting a five year hiatus from buying and reading any comics.

For a frame of reference. Your copy looks like it's missing some of the black ink on the artwork. Wild!

Cover colors on the Janowicz books were exceptional. Here's a scan from the Heritage archive of the #1. Yes, the image looks to have been heavily processed to accentuate the whites, but still...:

Janowicz copy, a sweet original owner SA and BA collection auctioned off back in the day.

The Curator copy looks like this.

My current crop, not NM+ or better:

Curator pedigree copy that was in my former collection looks like this:

Useful deal!

From the Twin Cities pedigree.

Massachusetts copy:

The Northland pedigree copy. I was the third owner, from the original to Michael Goldman to me, then it went to whomever bought it off me (I think on E-Bay).

Issues 86 and 93 are the DDs with black picture frames that have been especially tough to find in NM+ or better shape, and tend to be more expensive than the rest. But the cover art on the 91 is sweet.

My former top copy was one that turned up at a comic show and that I later submitted. The raw copy I still own is next to it, and is an example with just a bit of wear that keeps it out of being slab-worthy, but that has great eye appeal.

It is an odd cover.

"And now, for something completely different"

Here's what the Don and Maggie Thompson pedigree copy looks like:

This is what the Massachusetts pedigree copy looked like in an old time slab:

A collaboration with colleagues at Arizona on an experiment performed on the Space Shuttle Discovery, testing a possible mechanism for space flight-induced muscle loss.