In all eyes, we examine a comic book number from 25/10/50/75 years (plus a joker every month with a fifth week). This time, we head around April 1975 for the beginnings of the brand new X-Men entirely different in X-Men # 1 of giant size!
It’s weird. Obviously, I had to present this number for the entry “50 years ago” in the look of this month, but, guy, it’s a little weird, right? In addition to be able to talk to you X-Men of giant size # 1 that you don’t know already? I guess we could somehow lean in this, maybe? So, for this look back, look in April 1975 X-Men of giant size # 1 (by Len Wein, Dave Cockrum and Sam Graining), I will go through my columns revealed by the legends of the comic strip and find each of the different legends that I made on the subject!
It is enough to say, however, that it is one of the most historical comics of all time, and he finally took the X-Men from the point of not having an active series of comics (their book was only reprinted) to become the most popular comic book series of the whole country for more than a decade! Basically, from 1983 to, like, approximately 2001.
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Was Thunderbird invented to die?
According to the legends of the comic strip revealed n ° 20, I have demystified a long -term rumor according to which Thunderbird was still intended to die. He was not intended to die, but it is true that he was never supposed to last as a member of the X-Men!
Peter Sanderson, in his emblematic X-Men companion Book, asked Cockrum on the original Thunderbird plans:
Sanderson: “Now, did he originally plan that Thunderbird really be a member of the team? When was he decided to kill him?”
Cockrum: “In a way at the last minute. The way all this happened was that when we were planning this first problem, we decided that we were going to save the original X-Men, but the original X-Men or something would not really be in a danger. And we therefore had end lights. Banshee and we all liked Thunderbird, so we did not know. Not what to do with Thunderbird because we have never thought it.
Did Colossus intend to be Ferro Lad’s brother?
As you may already know, a number of X-Men were based on the ancient designs that Dave Cockrum hoped to work in the Legion of Superheroes. A legend is that Colossus was intended to be Ferro Lad’s brother.
As I noted in the comic strip, the legends revealed it # 51, this was not the case. In the excellent of Glen Cadigan The Legion companionHe answered the question quite simply …
Q. True or false: Your Colossus design was originally intended to be used as Ferro Lad’s brother.
Dave Cockrum: False.
Was Nightcrawler almost a member of the Legion of Superheroes?
In the comic strip, the legends revealed the n ° 60, I explained that while Dave Cockrum has developed a certain number of these ideas for what has become the X-Men while working on the Legion of Superheroes, what is interesting is that, although Nightcrawler was able to say to the origin of the superhero. Instead, Cockrum had larger plans for Nightcrawler, as a member of a brand new team in the Legion world called The Outsiders.
Was Storm a merger of several characters?
In the legends of the comic strip revealed # 75 (apart from the column, the column was at the origin of the urban legends of comic strips, but I let you live a little secret. When I made my book based on the column, my publisher of Penguin said that she thought that the legends of the comic strip were better sound, and I accepted, so I left the origins of the origins. storm.
When Dave Cockrum sat with Len Wein to develop the characters who would be members of the new X-Men, Cockrum used a certain number of characters he had already designed. Regarding the storm, the character who became Storm was originally a number of conceptions of cockrum characters. First of all, there was a trio and Quetzal, that Cockrum took their appearance and gave it to a character named Black Cat, who could make shift. Then there was a character named Typhoon, who controlled the weather. Cockrum and the writer Len Wein decided to merge the two, and suddenly, “Black Cat” had the meteorological powers that Typhoon had. A slight change in the costume, a cape and a new white hairstyle, and thus, Storm was born !!
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Why does Wolverine have a hood?
As I noted in the legends of the comic strip revealed it # 303, people could have noticed that the Wolverine costume changed X-Men of giant size # 1. As I noted in the column, over the years, maybe he was such a great costume designer in full, Dave Cockrum was attributed for redesign Wolverine’s outfit. However, the truth is much simpler than that.
You see, when the comic strip was feared by cockrum, it attracted Wolverine in the same way as it appeared. Gil Kane, however, who drew the blanket, accidentally spoiled the outfit (or perhaps drew it differently, I don’t know) and drew Wolverine with the distinctive hood he has since. Rather than fixing Kane’s error, however, Cockrum decided that Kane’s version looked so good that he decided to adopt him himself! Cockrum is then returned by the comic strip he had penciled and giving the book, he has carried Wolverine so that his hood corresponds to the design of Kane.
Who were the three X-Men who did not intend to stay on the X-Men after this first story?
As I noted in this comic strip, the revealed legends (long after having stopped numbering them)
One of the problems with the original story for the beginnings of the brand new X-Men completely different X-Men of giant size # 1 is the fact that Len Wein and Dave Cockrum worked on history for a long time. He has undergone many variations. The work lasted so long X-Men of giant size # 1 and what was going to be X-Men # 2 giant size (but rather became X-Men # 94 and 95) that Len Wein finally had to abandon the title (due to his increased duties by becoming the editor of Marvel Comics while working on history and therefore choosing between dropping the Hulk or dropping the X-Men) before the stories only saw the publication!
Because of this, there has been a certain confusion over the years between what cockrum remembers and what Wein remembers, especially with regard to Thunderbird, because Wein is almost sure that they always intended to kill Thunderbird, while Cockrum is not sure.
What it looks like is that Thunderbird’s death may not be always in the cards, but just decided very early. It seems that the original plan should never include all the new X-Men in the series in the future, but the debate is whether this non-inclusion was always supposed to be due to death or not.
Speaking to X-Men companionPeter Sanderson in 1981, Cockrum recalled that it was more a question where early, they were going to have some characters “fail” the original test for the new X-Men and they decided that Thunderbird should be one of them. The other two, however, were going to be Sunfire and … Banshee!
However, they then decided against the idea of X-Men “Finking”, so now they had to find another way to get rid of Sunfire, who they did not want in the team at all. So he just left in a breath. And then they decided on the whole idea “, shocking everyone and killing the idea of Thunderbird”. But Banshee succeeded! Of course, for Banshee to remain, they decided that they had to reorganize the character’s look, because the original vision of Banshee was also a lot … weird. So Cockrum redesigned it to look like a normal guy (also disgusting him slightly, because Wein and Cockrum both agreed that it did not make sense to make him look like a peer of Charles Xavier) …
How did Chris Claremont had secret assistance on the first story of the brand new X-Men entirely different?
In this old comic strip, the legends revealed, I wrote on the way Chris Clarmeont had a secret role in X-Men of giant size # 1
Giant size X-Men The creative team of # 1 was Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, however, it was also the last issue on which the two worked together just by themselves, because Chris Claremont was brought on board to script the second issue of the series (which has gone to be a X-Men of giant size # 2 to two parts in X-Men # 94 and # 95). Then, Claremont took over the series by himself and he has become the writer of the book for the next sixteen years and more, defining the characters and filling a place in my book as no one or the most important thing you need to know about the X-Men.
However, did you know that Claremont was in fact in a way over there from the start?
As you can know or not, the X-Men all the new and all different were introduced when a powerful mutant captured the original X-Men, then Professor X gathered a new team to save them on the island where the powerful mutant had the original X-Men in captivity. It turned out, however, in a major turn, the island itself was the powerful mutant, Krakoa!
So they fought against the whole island until they were worth it. However, how they defeated him, however, was thought of by Chris Claremont!
Claremont described the situation at Peter Sanderson in The companion X-Men…
Len and Dave Cockrum evolved the new X-Men concept. And they would be seated in Len’s office … plotting him. I would be sitting there just outside the rereading. I would walk around and said, “Can I listen?” And they would say “of course”. They had evolved all the first issue of the giant size except the end. They needed a way to get rid of Krakoa using the powers of the X-Men. I thought about it and I thought, well, we have Lorna Dane, who became Polaris here, and her power is magnetism, so why not have his slices through the magnetic lines of force, the gravimetric lines of force? And then the speed of the rotation of the earth on its axis would simply squirt it from top to bottom. In a sense, Krakoa would remain in place while the earth turned around its axis and revolved around the sun far from it. And it goes into wild blue there. It would be like taking a soap bar and watching it go pffftt! Right. . Len thought it was a great idea and Dave found the visuals and that was everything. “”
And it was the end …
Happy 50th anniversary, brand new, all-different X-Men!
If you have suggestions for May (or any other later month) 2015, 2000, 1975 and 1950 for me to walk, send me a line at branc@cbr.com! Here is the guide, however, for the coverage of the books so that you can make books of books that really came out in the right month. In general, the traditional time between the coverage date and the release date of a comic strip through the history of the comic strip was two months (it was three months, but not during the moments when we discuss here). The comics will therefore have a coverage date which is two months ahead of the real release date (therefore October for a book released in August). Obviously, it is easier to say when a book of 10 years ago was published because there was an internet coverage of books at the time.