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The only "change" I would make is to have Wolverine with his distinctive mask.•• When I was working on this piece, there were a number of considerations I kept in mind. One, of course, was that the X-Men, in their original "school uniforms", did not have distinctive, individualized looks, unless they were specific to their powers. Thus, Cyclops had his visor, and the Beast had bare hands and feet. Marvel Girl eventually got that pointy variant on a domino mask, which sort of made sense, given the amount of hair she needed to contain under a full head mask. Even letting some of it fall out the back would not have been an ideal solution. So, drawing this, thirty years after I did the original version for the COMIC READER, there were a couple of things I considered, one of which I implemented. Ororo had worn her distinctive headdress when she was "in the wild" in Africa, and it was incorporated into the costume Xavier gave her, so I realized it should be treated as something more significant than just a costume element. It was obviously something important to her. So, this time I included it. Wolverine's mask/headgear was another matter. Having already changed it once, between his appearance in THE INCREDIBLE HULK and GIANT-SIZED X-MEN, it seemed it was not something that he would consider particularly important. And, in fact, extrapolating along the lines established by GSXM, it seemed that, having rather dramatically QUIT the Canadian military (later, Alpha Flight), he would probably not want to keep the outfit they'd issued to him. One of the changes I made between this and the original cover drawing was strictly in my head. On the original, you can't see Colossus' hands, but in my head he was wearing gloves. With his hands visible in this later drawing, I realized gloves were not particularly practical for him, and so gave him something like his more familiar wristbands.
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