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John Byrne
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Can anyone remember their last issue of the X-Men?*** Easy enough. Uncanny X-Men 536, which I got last week. Withhold your boos, please. •• Unless you plan to discontinue your purchases as of that issue, that's not an answer to the question asked.
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Tony Midyett
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It's funny how memory can sometimes play tricks. Seeing this question, I was sure I had continued to buy the book for several issues after I left as artist/plotter, but checking online I find that the last issue I bought was 145, only two past my departure! ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Pardon my ignorance, JB, but I assumed Marvel sent its artists freebies of all its titles. Not so? |
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Mark McKay
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As near as I can tell, my last issue of the X-Men was 248. Edit: I take it back. I bought a few sporadically after that point, and I think
the last issue, where I really truly gave up on, was #257.
Edited by Mark McKay on 16 May 2011 at 11:52am
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Philippe Negrin
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I stopped reading X-Men during the Inferno arc (240's?) It was just dreadful. Silvestri whom I initially liked was getting so unpalatable. The stories didn't register anymore in my head as I turned the pages. I couldn't even re-read the poor things. Thankfully at around the same time Alan Davis's Excalibur started and they were my new X-Men.
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Darren De Vouge
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Tricky question for me because my first X-Men comic book was not the first one I read. The first X-men story I ever read was X-Men # 1 from 1963, reprinted in 'Sons of Origins of Marvel Comics'. My first issue was X-Men # 127 and the line up was Cyclops, Phoenix, Wolverine, Banshee (depowered), Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Havoc and Polaris . As classic a team as you could ever have except for the originals.
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Eddie Avila
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My first encounter with the X-Men was on a 7-11 cup. It featured the "All-New All-Different" line-up and it might have had them beside the old line up, I can't remember.
My next encounter with them was in the pages of Marvel Team-Up #53. They were giving Spider-Man a lift after the events of Marvel Team-Up Annual #1, which I had missed. Flying with Spidey were: Cyclops, Colossus, Night Crawler, Banshee, Storm, Phoenix and Professor X.
My first X-Men comic: #108. Same line-up. THE DEFINITIVE X-MEN.
(I might be off on the timing of the 7-11 cup. Does anyone else remember these cups, the pinnacle of Slurpee-dom?)
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Eddie Avila
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Found it!
http://stlcomics.com/cover_gallery/details.php?image_id=8682 &sessionid=8d9ed7a6222c30522ddab55bce683878
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Brad Teschner
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I'm having trouble determining which team was my first...I want to say I was
introduced to the X-Men via Secret Wars. That would make "My X-men"
Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine Rogue and Colossus. But something
tells me I read the trade for the Phoenix Saga first, so my line-up would be
Cyclops, Phoenix, Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Colossus.
Edited by Brad Teschner on 17 May 2011 at 6:48am
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Emery Calame
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My first issue was the 2nd team (Banshee, Night Crawler, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus) going up against Arcade in Murderworld. Uncanny X-men # 126, 1979 I think.
My next on was #129.
That was before I knew about comic book stores and picked them up at Eckerd's, Winn's 5& 10, Utotem, or 7-11 and could only buy whatever they had which meant missing issues.
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Matt Hawes
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My last issue, as a regular reader (I won't count the fact that I buy the series for the shop to sell)... I'm a bit foggy on the specific issue, but I recall it was just after "Uncanny X-Men" #300. That was the period that I decided to get serious about getting a comics shop, and so I stopped picking up regular comics as a rule while I did conventions and flea markets to raise money for my endeavor. I do continue to read comics from time to time, even X-Men titles, but not so regularly, and I don't collect anymore. Mostly this is due to the "you can't be a dealer and do your own drug" mentality. If I collect, I will hold onto everything I find cool, and that could affect the business negatively. But, as noted, I will still read different comics from time to time.
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Brad Hague
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My first issue was #147 with Storm, Wolverine, Collosus, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Sprite. With all the references to Phoenix, who had recently died, I felt compelled to seek out back issues. Obviously, the art was Cockrum, which I loved. As I collected the back issues, I was at first stricken by how different the previous art was from Cockrum. I thought that Byrne's Colossus was the DEFINATIVE version of the character. But I felt Cockrum had the definative Nightcrawler.
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Mark Haslett
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Emery: That was before I knew about comic book stores and picked them up at Eckerd's, Winn's 5& 10,...
**Dime Stores! (Thread drift alert!)
I used to seek Super-hero bounty in the Fuji 10 cent store on 45th Ave. in Seattle.
I wonder how many of us on the board shopped honest to goodness Ten Cent Stores? ("Honest to goodness"
in name only in my case-- only 1/8 of the stuff I remember could actually have cost a dime).
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