Obviously, with characters like The X-Men, even in 192 pages, you can’t cover everything, but honestly due its cheap price, you can’t ask of something as good as what you get here. While it was a really good reading experience, I felt that it didn't cover some relevant characters like Rogue, but also it didn't mention relevant runs like X-treme X-Men, and even a major storyline like The Age of Apocalypse was too briefly mentioned without showing the huge impact in the X-titles.īut, it was something that I kinda expected since a reference book about a super-hero team with so many characters in its different rosters, it's quite a challenge to be able to feature all in the proper way. Beast, Marvel Girl and Cyclops are looking for them, with mini-cerebro machine. This an European-licensed product which begins with a prose introduction “What's Extraordinary about The X-Men?” presented in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.Īfter that, you start an unstoppable tour, divides per ages (Silver, Bronze, and Modern) about many of the main highlights in comic books but also its media appearances in TV & Films, both live-action and animated. Released Jun 17th, 1969 The X-Men 59 Overview Contributions Pull It Have It Iceman, Lorna Dane, Angel and Havok are arrested by Sentinels and his leader Larry Trask.Certainly it’s small (in the sense that it’s 5” x 7”) BUT it’s 192 pages long! Where you can appreciate the impact of The X-Men, inside and outside the comic books, through a visual-and-text journey. Known most for their inner-team melodrama as much as for their grand adventures, the X-Men have alternately been weirdo outcasts, space-faring superhumans, teleporting renegades, costumed do-gooders, a nation unto themselves and students in a school for the inhumanly gifted and talented. This “Little Book of” isn’t as little as you may think. X-Men Legends (2022-) 1 Roy Thomas 4.1 out of 5 stars 26 Kindle Edition 1 offer from 3.99 X-Men Legends (2022-) 4 Ann Nocenti Kindle Edition 1 offer from 3.99 X-Men Legends (2022-) 3 Ann Nocenti Kindle Edition 1 offer from 3.99 Marauders (2022-) 9 Steve Orlando Kindle Edition 1 offer from 3.

This is a reference book, part of a series, focusing on some of the heroes and teams of Marvel Comics.

X-Men by Roy Thomas