Marvel Masterworks: Uncanny X-Men Volume 1
, Reprints: X-Men #94-100, Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Vol. 11 in the Marvel Masterworks Library). 167 Pages.
Scripted by Chris Claremont, Len Wein and Bill Mantlo Pencilled by Dave Cockrum
Foreword by Stan Lee.
The X-Men was Marvel's worst-selling book. Hard to believe today but its true. X-Men was the embarrassment of the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had abandoned the mutants early in its run to concentrate on better-selling books such as The Mighty Thor and Fantastic Four. The annals of Charles Xavier_ s School for Gifted Youngsters languished for years, maintained as it were by talented but still undistinguished creative teams, bolstered only by a few Jim Steranko issues and some interesting work by Neal Adams. (As the story goes, Adams specifically asked Stan Lee for Marvel's worst-selling title so he could have complete creative control). Cancellation didn_ t even come swiftly, since at the dawn of the 70s the book was refitted into

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