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    The X-Men #58

    The X-Men » The X-Men #58 - Mission: Murder released by Marvel on July 1969.

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    dmstarz's favourite marvel comic cover no244 0

    This is all about Havok and how he has been represented on this cover in a very distinctive fashion. The technique used here by the artist, Neal Adams (I think), seems, to me, to be one that was quite unusual in comics back then (maybe influenced by pop art? Roy Lichenstein?) and although it seems quite archaic in 2008, the result is still a highly effective one. Must have been a bummer for the readers though to find out his costume was black, not orange. I have ranked this cover no 244 as part...

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    Where has this been? 0

    Huzzah! A pretty good issue, at last. It has its flaws, true: Thomas has the X-Men announce what they are doing, as if the artwork of Neal Adams doesn't communicate it effectively (which it does); Angel refers to himself as the "Avenging Angel," which was what he called himself for less than a week several years ago; and Magneto is a robot (and supposedly was back in the Steranko-lead Magneto/Lorna mini-series) and Mesmero looks like the Green Goblin. Neal Adams's artwork and layout do a fantast...

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