John Byrne's X-Men Artifact Edition #1

John Byrne’s run on the X-Men began with issue #108 and lasted until #143. The team of Claremont, Byrne, and Austin made the X-Men (which was already a hit series under Dave Cockrum) soar to the top of the charts in comics sales. They introduced Alpha Flight, and then created the near mythical storylines “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past.” These and the rest of their stories remain burned into the memories of collective fandom to this day, and have been the basis for several X-Men films.

This Artifact Edition will include more than 100 pages of X-Men covers, splashes, and pages from Byrne’s X-Men run. All have been meticulously scanned from the original art and reproduced to the exacting Artist’s Edition standards that have won IDW Publishing five highly coveted Eisner Awards (to date)!

Contents

• X-Men #108 - Armageddon Now! (Pages 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 17)
• X-Men #109 - Home Are the Heroes (Pages 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15)
• X-Men #111 - Mindgames! (Pages 8, 11, 14)
• X-Men #112 - Magneto Triumphant! (Pages 4, 10, 11, 12, 16)
• X-Men #113 - Showdown! (Pages 9, 14)
• X-Men #114 - Desolation (Pages 6, 16, 17)
• X-Men #115 - Visions of Death! (Pages 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 17)
• X-Men #116 - To Save the Savage Land (Pages 8, 9, 13, 17)
• X-Men #118 - The Submergence of Japan (Page 11)
• X-Men #119 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas... (Pages 7, 8, 12)
• X-Men #120 - Wanted: Wolverine! Dead or Alive! (Pages 1, 17)
• X-Men #121 - Shoot-Out at the Stampede! (Pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11)
• X-Men #122 - Cry for the Children! (Pages 9, 11, 17)
• X-Men #123 - "Listed--Stop Me if You've Heard It--But This One Will KILL YOU!" (Pages 1, 8, 9)
• X-Men #124 - He Only Laughs When I Hurt! (Pages 5, 7, 9)
• X-Men #125 - There's Something Awful on Muir Island! (Pages 14, 15)
• X-Men #126 - How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth...! (Pages 10, 12, 14, 16)
• X-Men #127 - The Quality of Hatred! (Pages 6, 7, 8, 9)
• X-Men #128 - The Action of the Tiger (Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 15, 17)
• X-Men #129 - God Spare the Child... (Pages 2, 7)
• X-Men #130 - Dazzler (Page 14)
• X-Men #131 - Run for Your Life! (Page 11)
• X-Men #132 - And Hellfire Is Their Name! (Page 14)
• X-Men #133 - Wolverine: Alone! (Pages 1, 4, 14, 15, 16)
• X-Men #134 - Too Late, the Heroes! (Pages 2, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17)
• X-Men #135 - Dark Phoenix (Pages 3, 9)
• X-Men #136 - Child of Light and Darkness! (Pages 12, 16, 17)
• X-Men #137 - The Fate of the Phoenix! (Pages 2, 3, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 22, 28, 29)
• X-Men #138 - Elegy (Pages 8, 9, 14, 15)
• X-Men #139 - ...Something Wicked This Way Comes! (Pages 2, 3, 4, 15, 17, 22)
• X-Men #140 - Rage! (Pages 5, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22)
• X-Men #141 - Days of Future Past (Pages 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 17, 22)
• X-Men #142 - Mind Out of Time! (Pages 1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 16, 20, 21)
• X-Men #143 - Demon (Page 16)

Gallery Contents

• Unpublished splash page for a proposed Wolverine solo story
• Corner box art from #123-129
• Vintage male X-Men characters
• Heroes Heavies & Heroines
• Unused page from X-Men #138
• Unused page 31 & 34 of X-Men #137
• X-Men illustration from the 1981 Marvel calendar
• X-Men #114, 116, 127, 129, 133, 134, 136, 138, 139 & 140 covers
• X-Men #142 unpublished cover
• Phoenix: The Untold Story wraparound cover

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