Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Vol. 1

By Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Book Overview

A major reprinting of the original Marvel Masterworks Volumes is now underway, including the book that introduced the strangest superheroes of all - the X-Men! Welcome to the uncanny world of the X-Men! Billed as 'The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!' the X-Men became one comics' most-famous franchises. In these first ten issues by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, you'll meet Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl. As Professor X's students, they're a teen team on a mission to create peace and brotherhood between man and mutant. Their opposite - Magneto, the Master of Magnetism - also makes his first appearance in the famous first issue. You'll also see the first appearances of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Marvel Universe mainstays, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, the villainous Blob and Unus the Untouchable, as well as the reinvention of the Golden Age jungle adventurer, Ka-Zar! Collecting: X-Men (1963) 1-10

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1302951289
• ISBN13: 9781302951283
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Marvel Universe
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

the start of something big

Here is where the legendary X-Men franchise began -- with a single title featuring five teenagers and a crippled mentor. Their first fight as a team is against one of the great supervillains, Magneto. Subsequent issues feature such bizarre and unique menaces as the Vanisher, the Blob and Unus the Untouchable. Magneto returns with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to even things up. Then the Avengers visit for a clash of the titans! If that weren't enough, all of the above are products of that team supreme, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. (You know, the ones responsible for the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, etc.) Before this book, there were no mutants in the Marvel Universe. But, issue by issue, this title laid the seeds of an entire mutant population! (At least until House of M decimated them.)