CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: UNCANNY X-MEN FACSIMILE EDITIONS MINI-COVER GALLERY...

Thursday, 3 July 2025

UNCANNY X-MEN FACSIMILE EDITIONS MINI-COVER GALLERY...

Just to alert you to a couple of recent Facsimile Editions from Marvel, Crivvies, which you might be interested in adding to your collection - namely The Uncanny X-Men #s 135 & 136. However, I'm going to lead up to them by first showing you some of the previous X-Men facsimiles which eventually end in Jean Gray's death in #137. I don't think I ever had any of the original issues in this run, though I believe I read some of them in black and white in Marvel Superheroes, a UK monthly from back in the late '70s/early '80s. The 137 facsimile is one I bought in 2019, but it's being reissued later this month, and yes, I have actually pre-ordered it.

Anyway, that's enough waffle from me, enjoy the pretty piccies presented for your palpitating pleasure. And if you'd like to leave a comment, well - I won't try to stop you. (Incidentally, I scanned these comics while still in their poly bags, so there could be a spot of dust visible in one or two places. And I might've shown some of them before, but I can't quite recall which ones.)

Any memories of the original printings of these mags way back when, Crivs? Then recount your recollections to your fellow readers, esteemed ones, and prompt some pleasant nostalgic notions.

2 comments:

Colin Jones said...: I had all of them originally except #129 and #131 but I must correct you, Kid, because they didn't lead to Jean Grey's death - her dramatic death was later retconned away when it was revealed that the Phoenix Force had been impersonating Jean from #100 onwards and the real Jean Grey was still alive which was a total betrayal of the readers and made the entire Black Queen/Dark Phoenix saga pointless.; 3 July 2025 at 03:51
Kid said...: As you say, CJ, it was a retcon - she died, then Marvel later decided they wanted to have the original X-Men in their own series again - X-Factor (thankfully without Simon Cowell) - so they explained away her death, etc. It didn't make the saga pointless, as the issues were designed to entertain and that's what they did.; 3 July 2025 at 07:15

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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