My Bronze X-Men Collection

[OldGuy]

I'll be posting scans of my complete Bronze Age X-Men collection in this thread. I'll post three a day (maybe not on weekends) and have three days worth up at all times (older then three days get deleted).

 

None of this is about condition, either good or bad. It's just about the covers on a run of books that I love. A lot of you have seen all of these I'm sure, but I'm also sure some have not. This thread is for those that haven't seen them and those that have, but never get tired of looking at them.

 

If you haven't read some of the early books I suggest picking up Marvel Masterworks X-Men Vol. 1-4 (#4 is due in October) that cover GS1 - #130. These are really great reads.

 

I hope you all enjoy looking at these covers as much as I do.

[OldGuy]

Cover - Gil Kane (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Len Wein (Plot); Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Bob McLeod (Inks), Phil Rachelson (Colors), Tom Orzechowski (Letters)

Notes - New X-Men begin

 

 

 

Cover - Gil Kane (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks) Gaspar Saladino (Letters)

Interior - Len Wein (Plot); Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Petra Goldberg (Colors), Karen Mantlo (Letters)

Notes - Death of Thunderbird

 

 

 

Cover - Sal Buscema; Dave Cockrum (Storm figure only) (Pencils) Al Milgrom?; Dave Cockrum (Storm figure only) (Inks) ? (Colors) Dan Crespi (Letters)

Interior - Bill Mantlo (plot assist), Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Phil Rachelson (Colors), Dave Hunt (Letters)

Notes - 1st Moira MacTaggert

 

 

 

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[dudesim]

Great covers OG good stories

[HighVoltage]

Thanks for sharing, OG!

 

I always liked #96 and the fact that Claremont came back to this issue with the story in #143...

 

[Darthdiesel]

Screw you and X-men you rode in on!

[arnoldma]

i love these old comic cover, they are just so action packed compared to some of the new marvels (ultimate spider-man/x-men), thats one of the main reasons i want to brunch into older marvels, of the key comics, spidy, x-men, hulk, avenger, etc... rather then just collecting ultimate universe (i know, im lame ), which is what got me started with the comics hobbie (spent way to much on high cgc of ultimate spidy/x-men variants)

 

i was sprised these early x-men was bronze age already, i would thought any key comic before #100 atleast was silver, heh, oh well,

[blowout]

A great thread, keep 'em coming.

[BachelorOfComix]

Screw you and X-men you rode in on!

[OldGuy]

X-Men #97

Cover - Rich Buckler (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Don Warfield (Colors), Annette Kaye (Letters)

Notes - 1st Lilandra

 

 

 

X-Men #98

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Janice Cohen (Colors), Joe Rosen (Letters)

Notes - None

 

 

 

X-Men #99

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks) Irving Watanabe (Letters)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Frank Chiaramonte (Inks), Michele Wrightson (Colors), Gaspar Saladino (page one), Irving Watanabe (Letters)

Notes - 1st Black Tom Cassidy

 

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[jazzster_12]

Great thread...keep those covers coming...

 

These bing back some memories for me as I had all these at one

point in my early years. Sold the collection of for a moped scooter

way back in the early 80's, but am now back into these.

I am trying to slowly get these back when I can find the

right prices. I just bought a 107 in F/VF. I agree that the

action covers are so much better then the poses you

see nowadays. Keep em coming OG.

[OldGuy]

X-Men #100

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks) Dan Crespi (Letters)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Dave Cockrum (Inks), Bonnie Wilford (Colors), Annette Kawecki (Letters)

Notes - Old X-Men vs. New New X-Men

 

 

 

X-Men #101

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks) Dan Crespi? (Letters)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Frank Chiaramonte (Inks), Bonnie Wilford (Colors), John Costanza (Letters)

Notes - 1st App Phoenix

 

 

 

X-Men #102

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Bonnie Wilford (Colors), John Costanza (Letters)

Notes - Origin Storm

 

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[Fan4Fan]

Not following the X-Men at all... Why is Beast human on the cover of #100?

 

Thanks,

Fan4Fan

[OldGuy]

Not following the X-Men at all... Why is Beast human on the cover of #100?

 

Thanks,

Fan4Fan

 

As noted in the "notes" section above the scan "Old X-Men vs. New New X-Men". Bad guy builds robots of the Old X-Men and they fight the new team.

[Fan4Fan]

Not following the X-Men at all... Why is Beast human on the cover of #100?

 

Thanks,

Fan4Fan

 

As noted in the "notes" section above the scan "Old X-Men vs. New New X-Men". Bad guy builds robots of the Old X-Men and they fight the new team.

 

Thanks! The old robot ploy....

[s-man]

Great thread Oldguy!!!

 

Looking at these covers, I still have a hard time thinking that the title was on the verge of being cut and in reprints!!

[blowout]

Looking at these covers, I still have a hard time thinking that the title was on the verge of being cut and in reprints!!

 

There's nothing like a great creative team and some new ideas to revitalise a comic book series. And who says you need a new #1 issue to do it?

[OldGuy]

X-Men #103

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Janice Cohen (Colors), John Costanza (Letters)

Notes - 1st Time Wolvie is called "Logan"

 

 

 

X-Men #104

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Sam Grainger (Inks), Andy Yanchus (Colors), Bruce Patterson (Letters)

Notes - 1st Corsair and Starjamers; Magneto

 

 

 

X-Men #105

Cover - Dave Cockrum (Pencils) Dave Cockrum (Inks)

Interior - Chris Claremont (-script), Dave Cockrum (Pencils), Bob Layton (Inks), Andy Yanchus (Colors), Tom Orzechowski (Letters)

Notes - None

 

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[Mr. Zipper]

I hope you all enjoy looking at these covers as much as I do.

 

 

Thanks for a great thread OG.

[Samurai-Bill]

I know I've seen a post regarding the covers on new marvel comics . Compared to these the new covers are very static and do not represent the story inside , the best way I can describe these new covers is they look like they have been " posed "

[mrwoogieman]

Thanks for the cool thread OG!!

 

The first comic I remember reading over and over again (and really launching me into comic book collecting) was X-Men 99, given to me by my older brother. After reading the cover off of the book (literally), X-Men was my book while I was growing up, all the way through Byrne until about issue 220 or so.

 

My older brother was into Hulk/Iron Man/Avengers, but for me, it was the X-Men all the way!