Marvel Masterworks X-men 5
by Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich, Arnold Drake
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Author: Arnold Drake, Gary Friedrich, Roy ThomasEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-20
ISBN: 0785117873
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: Marvel Enterprises
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Book Review: A few moments of brilliance
Summary: 3 Stars
When I was a kid, I was always puzzled why the X-Men was cancelled. I thought these stories were great when I originally read them, but four decades later most of them don't hold up. The two Jim Steranko stories stand out, of course, as does the Barry Smith story. I remember thinking the Smith artwork was shockingly bad, and in fact it was greeted with howls of protest from readers... Smith sketched it on a park bench in NYC waiting for his interview at Marvel. Today, it looks much better than the rest of the issues contained in this volume.
For me, it's a worthwhile purchase, as there are three Steranko covers along with the two stories he illustrated. I wasn't able to buy every issue in those days and missed many, so it was a pleasure to be able to finally, at last, read them all in order. But I would have enjoyed it a lot more 42 years ago.
Things pick up dramatically in the next volume, with the entry of Neal Adams, but it wasn't in time to save the title. True, the X-Men were revived in 1975 but they were "all-new, all-different", and I always felt a certain nostalgia for the X-Men of my childhood.
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