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Review: This is as good as it gets! A mandatory read for all X-Men fans! - This book features full color reprints of the Uncanny X-men issues #94-110, and starts with Giant-Size X-Men #1. This was a major turning point in the X-Men's history, and it's where their most famous era begins. It's true that Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Beast, and Angel had many adventures throughout the '60s until the series was temporarily canceled. However, this is still a great starting point for readers as a new team was introduced including Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler. Additionally, Chris Claremont did an amazing job giving more depth to these characters and writing more dramatic stories, and you'll see fantastic artwork from the likes of Dave Cockrum and John Byrne. You'll see the first appearance of many classic X-Men characters as well as being introduced to the Phoenix Saga. Going back to read these stories was a lot of fun for me even as an adult, and I don't think any X-Men fan should be without this collection. This collection is much cheaper than buying one of those super expensive hardcover books, and there's also plenty of bonus content like original character designs and some articles that were written about the X-Men. I'm not sure the Marvel Team-Up issues were necessary, but I liked the 2 issues of Iron Fist that cross over with our favorite mutants. Here's a breakdown of all the issues included in this truly Epic Collection... Giant-Size X-Men #1 - The new X-Men team is formed including Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, and Banshee. Uncanny X-Men #94 - First issue with the new team as they battle Count Nefaria. Uncanny X-Men #95 - The battle with Nefaria continues, Thunderbird dies. Uncanny X-Men #96 - The X-Men battle an ancient demon which mentally introduces Professor X to other worlds. Uncanny X-Men #97 - The X-Men are forced to battle Havoc and Polaris who are under the control of Eric the Red. Uncanny X-Men #98 - The sentinels return to terrorize the X-Men, features the first appearance of Black Tom. Uncanny X-Men #99 - The team battles their way out of captivity in outer space. Uncanny X-Men #100 - The new X-Men team are forced to battle the old team. Uncanny X-Men #101 - Featuring the first appearance of Phoenix. Uncanny X-Men #102 - The team battles Juggernaut and Black Tom, features Storm's origin. Uncanny X-Men #103 - The battle with Juggernaut and Black Tom continues. Uncanny X-Men #104 - The new team battles Magneto for the first time, first appearance of the Star Jammers. Uncanny X-Men #105 - The X-Men battle Eric the Red and Firelord. Uncanny X-Men #106 - While training in the Danger Room, the X-Men meet Xavier's dark side. Uncanny X-Men #107 - The team is transported deep into space to help Lilandra fight the Imperial Guard. Uncanny X-Men #108 - The team battles for the safety of the M'kron Crystal, John Byrne's art starts. Iron Fist #14 - Iron Fist battles Sabretooth in his first appearance. Iron Fist #15 - Iron Fist meets and battles the X-Men. Uncanny X-Men #109 - During a pleasant day off, the X-Men are attacked by Weapon Alpha. Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 - Spider-Man and the X-Men battle a group who consider themselves gods. Marvel Team-Up #53 - Spider-Man deals with the Hulk and Woodgod. Uncanny X-Men #110 - The X-Men are attacked by Warhawk. Marvel Team-Up #69 - Spider-Man and Havok deal with some ancient warriors. Marvel Team-Up #70 - Spider-Man and Thor battle the Living Monolith.
Review: The X-Men go Intergalactic, Planetary, Intergalactic - This is it, X-fans. This is where the X-Men get their shot at greatness. Well, this is where it starts, at least. If you picked up the X-Men Epic Collection 4 or know your X-history, you'll know that following X-Men #66 (with a publishing date of March 1970), the X-Men series went into reprints and the X-Men TEAM became occasional guest stars in a bunch of other Marvel books. It wouldn't be until Giant-Size X-Men #1 (publishing date May 1975) that new X-Men adventures would be told in a book titled "X-Men." This book introduced a mostly new, international X-Men squad that would be more appealing to the foreign markets (read: outside the US) that Marvel was trying to sell their books in. New to the team was Storm (Kenya), Nightcrawler (Germany), Colossus (Soviet Union), Thunderbird (Apache- he lived on a reservation in the USA), Banshee (Ireland), Sunfire (Japan), and Wolverine (Canada). Banshee and Sunfire had made earlier appearances in the X-Men book before it had gone into reprints and Wolverine had made his first appearance in Incredible Hulk #180 (October 1974). They joined veteran X-Man, Cyclops, in a mission to rescue the rest of the original team from the mysterious mutant island, Krakoa! The Island that Walked Like a Man! Written by then Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Len Wein and illustrated by Dave Cochrum, this new team was initially supposed to appear in a series of Giant-Size X-Men comics but instead, they relaunched the original X-Men title and made the next issue of Giant-Size a reprint book before discontinuing the Giant-Size line. With X-Men # 94 (publishing date August 1975), the X-Men series was back! Len Wein's story for Giant-Size X-Men #2 was split in two for issues 94 and 95 of the regular series. Wien handed scripting duties for the book over to Chris Claremont who would fully take over writing duties with issue 96 and continue with the title for the next sixteen years. It is really with Claremont that we see the team members develop into fully realized people with thoughts and interests well beyond the action portrayed within. It gives the whole book a level of quality that was largely missing in previous X-Men issues. With the relaunch, the X-Men team was cut down to mostly the newcomers with only Cyclops sticking around as field leader. Beast had left during the X-Men's hiatus to join the Avengers. Angel and Iceman would leave to become members of the short-lived Champions team. Havok and Polaris would retire from the team only for a new enemy to manipulate the two into fighting the new X-Men. And then there was Marvel Girl who would leave with the rest of the originals but soon return as a cast member if not a full member of the team. Her story would lead to the Phoenix... and some damn good stories. Which leads us directly into the stories! Probably in an attempt to differentiate the new book from the original (which was essentially cancelled), the new book wouldn't focus on a limited cast of evil mutants in a villain of the month arrangement. Instead, the book would throw everything against the wall and see what stuck. You'd have some traditional fare like a Sentinel fight, or a battle against Havok and Polaris, but you'd also have the X-Men visit Banshee's Irish castle where Nightcrawler would meet the local leprechauns. The X-Men would fight interdimensional demons. As mentioned above, they'd fight living islands. Things got bigger and weirder as the battles got more personal. Even in their second mission (#94 & 95), the X-Men would fight a less typical foe, Count Nefaria and his Ani-Men. While the enemies were different, what really matters here was that the X-Men took on their first casualty with one of their own dying by the end of the book. A rarity at the time, it showed readers that the X-Men book was willing to play for keeps. It was a book to watch, especially when it went cosmic in a big way. By X-Men #108, the X-Men were fighting intergalactic empires and saving the entire universe from collapse. It wouldn't be the last time. None of this would have worked without talented artists to make all of this high action and drama work. Fortunately, the series started strong with Dave Cockrum on art. Cockrum was intimately involved in the creation of most of the new X-Men (Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Thunderbird) and was a strong partner on plots after Len Wein departed. I am much more familiar with Cockrum's second run on this book and discounted his contributions to the title before rereading his first run. His second run is stiff. His first run... he fires on all cylinders here. This is Cockrum in his prime. The action is well done. The panel layouts in excellent. While there is a lot less experimental stuff happening here compared to Neal Adams' run, Cockrum's professional art is polished and clean. Unfortunately, Dave Cockrum was also Marvel's art director and had responsibilities well beyond just the X-Men comic. When the book was bi-monthly, it was manageable, but as sales increased and demand picked up to make X-Men a monthly book, Cockrum had to leave the book in the hands of John Byrne. From all accounts, Byrne REALLY wanted the X-Men book but it's said he was also intimidated by the legacy left by Cockrum. This is the first time I've really understood that because Cockrum's work really does shine in this collection. Byrne does a great job himself but their pencils really seem on par here. Don't worry, folks. John Byrne's run is just getting started and when he hit his stride in the next volume, we'll see some magic. For now, let's just be happy to get two artists near the top of their game. Besides getting a good chunk of All-New, All-Different X-Men, we also get their crossover with Iron Fist (by the same creative team of Claremont and Byrne), and a series of Marvel Team-Up issues of varying quality. Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 (Publishing date December 1976) is almost universally reviled. It is poorly plotted and paced, and just doesn't do Spider-Man or the X-Men any favors from a continuity perspective. Team-Up #69 and 70 on the other hand, continues the story of Havok and Polaris (mostly Havok) after they drop out of the X-Men book. It's much better, possibly because Chris Claremont and John Byrne are the creative team. Finally, we have all those extra content features that I crave! At the back of the book, we get the cover for Giant-Size X-Men #2 (which like I mentioned above was a reprint comic), character designs and treatments for the new X-Men or potentially new X-Men as well as possible redesigns for the original team, inked artwork from Giant-Size X-Men #1, a feature from F.O.O.M. #10 depicting the All-New X-Men team, some unused artwork that would have featured in Giant-Size X-Men #2, model sheets for the X-Men by Dave Cockrum, some unused artwork from X-Men #106, a feature from Rampaging Hulk #2 about the All-New X-Men, and cover artwork from Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volumes 1 & 2. It's some beefy extras, all collected here for your enjoyment. This is where it starts, people. This is when the X-Men becomes the team you need to take up and notice. I still put the Roy Thomas/ Neal Adams run on the book as my absolute favorite but, historically speaking, this is when the book gets consistently good for a long while. If you've never read this before or want it all in one convenient to read package, this is your best shot. Or it was... I don't know what the price is going to be when you read this. Definitely worth somewhere below $40 American, though.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,103,155 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #631 in Marvel Comics & Graphic Novels (Books) #2,093 in Superhero Comics & Graphic Novels |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (364) |
| Dimensions  | 6.5 x 1 x 10.25 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 130290390X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1302903909 |
| Item Weight  | 13 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Part of Series  | X-Men Epic Collection |
| Print length  | 528 pages |
| Publication date  | March 28, 2017 |
| Publisher  | Marvel Universe |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is as good as it gets! A mandatory read for all X-Men fans!
*by G***G on March 19, 2018*

This book features full color reprints of the Uncanny X-men issues #94-110, and starts with Giant-Size X-Men #1. This was a major turning point in the X-Men's history, and it's where their most famous era begins. It's true that Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Beast, and Angel had many adventures throughout the '60s until the series was temporarily canceled. However, this is still a great starting point for readers as a new team was introduced including Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler. Additionally, Chris Claremont did an amazing job giving more depth to these characters and writing more dramatic stories, and you'll see fantastic artwork from the likes of Dave Cockrum and John Byrne. You'll see the first appearance of many classic X-Men characters as well as being introduced to the Phoenix Saga. Going back to read these stories was a lot of fun for me even as an adult, and I don't think any X-Men fan should be without this collection. This collection is much cheaper than buying one of those super expensive hardcover books, and there's also plenty of bonus content like original character designs and some articles that were written about the X-Men. I'm not sure the Marvel Team-Up issues were necessary, but I liked the 2 issues of Iron Fist that cross over with our favorite mutants. Here's a breakdown of all the issues included in this truly Epic Collection... Giant-Size X-Men #1 - The new X-Men team is formed including Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, and Banshee. Uncanny X-Men #94 - First issue with the new team as they battle Count Nefaria. Uncanny X-Men #95 - The battle with Nefaria continues, Thunderbird dies. Uncanny X-Men #96 - The X-Men battle an ancient demon which mentally introduces Professor X to other worlds. Uncanny X-Men #97 - The X-Men are forced to battle Havoc and Polaris who are under the control of Eric the Red. Uncanny X-Men #98 - The sentinels return to terrorize the X-Men, features the first appearance of Black Tom. Uncanny X-Men #99 - The team battles their way out of captivity in outer space. Uncanny X-Men #100 - The new X-Men team are forced to battle the old team. Uncanny X-Men #101 - Featuring the first appearance of Phoenix. Uncanny X-Men #102 - The team battles Juggernaut and Black Tom, features Storm's origin. Uncanny X-Men #103 - The battle with Juggernaut and Black Tom continues. Uncanny X-Men #104 - The new team battles Magneto for the first time, first appearance of the Star Jammers. Uncanny X-Men #105 - The X-Men battle Eric the Red and Firelord. Uncanny X-Men #106 - While training in the Danger Room, the X-Men meet Xavier's dark side. Uncanny X-Men #107 - The team is transported deep into space to help Lilandra fight the Imperial Guard. Uncanny X-Men #108 - The team battles for the safety of the M'kron Crystal, John Byrne's art starts. Iron Fist #14 - Iron Fist battles Sabretooth in his first appearance. Iron Fist #15 - Iron Fist meets and battles the X-Men. Uncanny X-Men #109 - During a pleasant day off, the X-Men are attacked by Weapon Alpha. Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 - Spider-Man and the X-Men battle a group who consider themselves gods. Marvel Team-Up #53 - Spider-Man deals with the Hulk and Woodgod. Uncanny X-Men #110 - The X-Men are attacked by Warhawk. Marvel Team-Up #69 - Spider-Man and Havok deal with some ancient warriors. Marvel Team-Up #70 - Spider-Man and Thor battle the Living Monolith.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The X-Men go Intergalactic, Planetary, Intergalactic
*by S***X on April 29, 2020*

This is it, X-fans. This is where the X-Men get their shot at greatness. Well, this is where it starts, at least. If you picked up the X-Men Epic Collection 4 or know your X-history, you'll know that following X-Men #66 (with a publishing date of March 1970), the X-Men series went into reprints and the X-Men TEAM became occasional guest stars in a bunch of other Marvel books. It wouldn't be until Giant-Size X-Men #1 (publishing date May 1975) that new X-Men adventures would be told in a book titled "X-Men." This book introduced a mostly new, international X-Men squad that would be more appealing to the foreign markets (read: outside the US) that Marvel was trying to sell their books in. New to the team was Storm (Kenya), Nightcrawler (Germany), Colossus (Soviet Union), Thunderbird (Apache- he lived on a reservation in the USA), Banshee (Ireland), Sunfire (Japan), and Wolverine (Canada). Banshee and Sunfire had made earlier appearances in the X-Men book before it had gone into reprints and Wolverine had made his first appearance in Incredible Hulk #180 (October 1974). They joined veteran X-Man, Cyclops, in a mission to rescue the rest of the original team from the mysterious mutant island, Krakoa! The Island that Walked Like a Man! Written by then Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Len Wein and illustrated by Dave Cochrum, this new team was initially supposed to appear in a series of Giant-Size X-Men comics but instead, they relaunched the original X-Men title and made the next issue of Giant-Size a reprint book before discontinuing the Giant-Size line. With X-Men # 94 (publishing date August 1975), the X-Men series was back! Len Wein's story for Giant-Size X-Men #2 was split in two for issues 94 and 95 of the regular series. Wien handed scripting duties for the book over to Chris Claremont who would fully take over writing duties with issue 96 and continue with the title for the next sixteen years. It is really with Claremont that we see the team members develop into fully realized people with thoughts and interests well beyond the action portrayed within. It gives the whole book a level of quality that was largely missing in previous X-Men issues. With the relaunch, the X-Men team was cut down to mostly the newcomers with only Cyclops sticking around as field leader. Beast had left during the X-Men's hiatus to join the Avengers. Angel and Iceman would leave to become members of the short-lived Champions team. Havok and Polaris would retire from the team only for a new enemy to manipulate the two into fighting the new X-Men. And then there was Marvel Girl who would leave with the rest of the originals but soon return as a cast member if not a full member of the team. Her story would lead to the Phoenix... and some damn good stories. Which leads us directly into the stories! Probably in an attempt to differentiate the new book from the original (which was essentially cancelled), the new book wouldn't focus on a limited cast of evil mutants in a villain of the month arrangement. Instead, the book would throw everything against the wall and see what stuck. You'd have some traditional fare like a Sentinel fight, or a battle against Havok and Polaris, but you'd also have the X-Men visit Banshee's Irish castle where Nightcrawler would meet the local leprechauns. The X-Men would fight interdimensional demons. As mentioned above, they'd fight living islands. Things got bigger and weirder as the battles got more personal. Even in their second mission (#94 & 95), the X-Men would fight a less typical foe, Count Nefaria and his Ani-Men. While the enemies were different, what really matters here was that the X-Men took on their first casualty with one of their own dying by the end of the book. A rarity at the time, it showed readers that the X-Men book was willing to play for keeps. It was a book to watch, especially when it went cosmic in a big way. By X-Men #108, the X-Men were fighting intergalactic empires and saving the entire universe from collapse. It wouldn't be the last time. None of this would have worked without talented artists to make all of this high action and drama work. Fortunately, the series started strong with Dave Cockrum on art. Cockrum was intimately involved in the creation of most of the new X-Men (Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Thunderbird) and was a strong partner on plots after Len Wein departed. I am much more familiar with Cockrum's second run on this book and discounted his contributions to the title before rereading his first run. His second run is stiff. His first run... he fires on all cylinders here. This is Cockrum in his prime. The action is well done. The panel layouts in excellent. While there is a lot less experimental stuff happening here compared to Neal Adams' run, Cockrum's professional art is polished and clean. Unfortunately, Dave Cockrum was also Marvel's art director and had responsibilities well beyond just the X-Men comic. When the book was bi-monthly, it was manageable, but as sales increased and demand picked up to make X-Men a monthly book, Cockrum had to leave the book in the hands of John Byrne. From all accounts, Byrne REALLY wanted the X-Men book but it's said he was also intimidated by the legacy left by Cockrum. This is the first time I've really understood that because Cockrum's work really does shine in this collection. Byrne does a great job himself but their pencils really seem on par here. Don't worry, folks. John Byrne's run is just getting started and when he hit his stride in the next volume, we'll see some magic. For now, let's just be happy to get two artists near the top of their game. Besides getting a good chunk of All-New, All-Different X-Men, we also get their crossover with Iron Fist (by the same creative team of Claremont and Byrne), and a series of Marvel Team-Up issues of varying quality. Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 (Publishing date December 1976) is almost universally reviled. It is poorly plotted and paced, and just doesn't do Spider-Man or the X-Men any favors from a continuity perspective. Team-Up #69 and 70 on the other hand, continues the story of Havok and Polaris (mostly Havok) after they drop out of the X-Men book. It's much better, possibly because Chris Claremont and John Byrne are the creative team. Finally, we have all those extra content features that I crave! At the back of the book, we get the cover for Giant-Size X-Men #2 (which like I mentioned above was a reprint comic), character designs and treatments for the new X-Men or potentially new X-Men as well as possible redesigns for the original team, inked artwork from Giant-Size X-Men #1, a feature from F.O.O.M. #10 depicting the All-New X-Men team, some unused artwork that would have featured in Giant-Size X-Men #2, model sheets for the X-Men by Dave Cockrum, some unused artwork from X-Men #106, a feature from Rampaging Hulk #2 about the All-New X-Men, and cover artwork from Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volumes 1 & 2. It's some beefy extras, all collected here for your enjoyment. This is where it starts, people. This is when the X-Men becomes the team you need to take up and notice. I still put the Roy Thomas/ Neal Adams run on the book as my absolute favorite but, historically speaking, this is when the book gets consistently good for a long while. If you've never read this before or want it all in one convenient to read package, this is your best shot. Or it was... I don't know what the price is going to be when you read this. Definitely worth somewhere below $40 American, though.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Definitely a must read.
*by J***S on August 22, 2024*

This Epic Collection is worth the money. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and recommend it to anyone who is a fan of X-Men, or is looking to start reading X-Men.

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