Just for fun.
Cover for the Vol. 1 trade paperback
As you almost certainly know by now, Ed Piskor’s X-Men: Grand Design is a 6-issue distillation of the original series’ first 300 or so issues. Basically, Piskor took decades’ worth of material and boiled it down to a coherent, straightforward narrative, done up in his distinctive cartooning style.
The first two issues, which make up the series’ first volume, have been collected in a nearly Treasury-sized trade paperback that’s out this week. (Click here for more on that.)
Since the first volume captures the first wave of mutantdom, it seemed like a good time for a 13 COVERS spotlight on the X-Men of Lee, Kirby, Thomas, Adams, et al.
Dig it.
Jack Kirby pencils, Sol Brodsky or Frank Giacoia inks
John Buscema pencils, with Buscema or John Tartaglione inks
Kirby pencils, Wally Wood inks
Werner Roth pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Marie Severin alterations
Buscema, with possible John Verpoorten alterations
Roth pencils, John Tartaglione inks
Neal Adams, with John Romita alterations on Cyclops
Barry Windsor-Smith pencils, Vince Colletta inks
Roth and Tartaglione
Marie Severin pencils, Joe Sinnott inks
Kirby pencils, possible Sol Brodsky inks
Adams, with either Adams or Tom Palmer inks
Don Heck pencils, Tartaglione inks
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Cover images and credits from the mutant Grand Comics Database.
