Dig these early X-Men portraits by Jack Kirby! The King had not yet morphed into his truly cosmic style in these days. Wouldn’t it have been cool if he re-visited the X-Men around the time he returned to Marvel in the 1970s? One can only imagine…
Collector’s Guide:
- From the first dozen-or-so issues of Uncanny X-Men; Marvel, 1963-1964.
September 9th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
True, Kirby never returned to the X-Men themselves…but if you look at Captain America Annual #4 from 1977 with Magneto and a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, you can probably get a pretty good idea of what a Marvel mutant series from him in that era would have been like.
September 10th, 2012 at 12:56 am
Excellent point, Rabensam! We should snag some pages from that Annual for comparison. Thank you visiting and commenting.