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Charles Valderrama Byrne Robotics Member
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I felt this worthy of adding to this thread....
John Byrne on getting assigned X-Men:
"The way I usually phrase it is, I had threatened everybody at the office with bodily harm if Dave Cockrum ever left the book and it didn't come to me! ...With lousy distribution in Canada and weird Canadian postal service stuff - which said that first issues don't count as periodicals, so they don't allow them into the country - I very rarely got any issue #1s. But X-Men I picked up from the very first issue, and I was totally blown away by it. I just fell in love with the characters. When I finally got to do the book, it wasn't really them. It was something called X-Men, but it had Cyclops and he was the one that counted as far as I was concerned."
Also, JB's letter to the readers (notice the date):
-C!
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 20 April 2017 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | 2
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The letter was written 2 weeks before STAR WARS hit the theaters.
The Dec 1977 cover date meant that the issue probably hit the specialty shops in Aug '77 and newsstands one month later.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 20 April 2017 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | 3
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Did the specialty shops get them a month early that far back? My recollection is the newsstand got the books 4 months ahead of the cover date.
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Brian O'Neill Byrne Robotics Member
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For about the first decade of my comic-reading life (starting in '78), nearly every monthly book was dated three months in advance. That started to change in the late '80s, when some books (like the Spider-Man titles every summer) went twice-weekly. Then, around 1989/'90. DC made a subtle change to dating one month in advance.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 21 April 2017 at 7:44am | IP Logged | 5
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When did the idea for your brown costume start, JB?•• Around about the time I first saw the costume, in THE INCREDBILE HULK. "A yellow and blue wolverine??" I thought. The seeds were planted then -- with no notion that I might ever do anything about it!
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Larry Gil Byrne Robotics Member
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I was so blown away with X-men 108 when i bought it off the shelf. I liked Cockrum's art but JB raised the bar. 40 year's ..imagine if Claremont left and JB stayed on.
Edited by Larry Gil on 21 April 2017 at 11:53am
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Charles Valderrama Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 21 April 2017 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | 7
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If JB had stayed on X-MEN longer, I would've been quite committed to the book. Especially with some of the ideas he had brewing.
-C!
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John Byrne
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...imagine if Claremont left and JB stayed on. ••• Never a real option. Chris had so poisoned that well, for me, that there was no desire to stay. And, as I noted many times, without me in the way he went on to turn the X-Men's book into one of the most successful up to that time.
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Don Zomberg Byrne Robotics Member
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Imagine if JB had never moved over to FF?
No thanks.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
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Imagine if JB had never moved over to FF?
No thanks.
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Exactly.
Now if JB had been inclined (and permitted to do both books...
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Don Zomberg Byrne Robotics Member
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And Hulk. And Captain America...
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
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Yes, I seem to recall that Mr. Byrne was, at one point, drawing X-Men, Avengers, AND Fantastic Four. And maybe Marvel Team-Up at the same time also.
I just wonder when he had the extra two arms removed...
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