![]() ![]() I’m afraid X-Men really went downhill after this and didn’t really recover until Roy Thomas and Neal Adams took it over, almost 40 issues later (although there was a two-issue Steranko run which is at least nice to look at). This was a great run for new concepts: The Stranger, Juggernaut, the Sentinels, and the Mimic (okay, that last one’s not so great) and for longer stories: The Sentinels saga is three issues. ![]() By the time he takes over full pencils in issue #17, Roth is still Gavin, but with inks by Dick Ayers, his work isn’t half-bad. Jack Kirby pencils only one of these issues (#11) but does layouts (or, as it’s sometimes referred to, “designed by”) for Alex Toth (who lasted one lone issue, inked by Vince Colletta, who totally obliterates any hint of Toth, thus robbing us of actually seeing a Toth Marvel superhero book) and then “Jay Gavin,” who is actually Werner Roth. Growing up as a Marvel Kid, I always felt X-Men was one of the lesser Marvels, still better than anything DC was churning out in the same era, but certainly not up to the level of the Fantastic Four or Amazing Spider-Man. It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the X-Men issues-#s 11-19-contained in this volume and to be honest, they were better than I remembered. ![]()
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