Jim Lee bought up high standards for comic book art in the 90s but I still find the New X-Men & Astonishing X-Men designs superior to his X-Men designs.

Some of them.

I have to admit that I liked his design for Dazzler. She basically made Jubilee redundant with how cool she looked - Jubes' look and lack of power development just can't compete with Ali's design and powerset to me.

Some did it for me and some didn't.

His Magneto and Bishop are my fav of all time though.

His designs did make them look more like a team than they usually do. I suspect that was also the reaon for giving Wolverine his yellow costume back.

That being said, it was such a shame that Jean lost that fantastic Phoenix costume due to the retcon.

Those were done by Mark Silvestri and Dan Green. They premiered two issues before Jim Lee took over.

@immolation: Well, than that only leaves Dazzler's new costume as one I think Jim Lee did well on. The rest are pretty much misses for me, but the '90s were a bad time.

Loved his designs he defined the 90's for whatever you want to take that for, but yea they were famous for a reason

Bought all of these when they came out. Damn I’m old AF

yup me too lol

Did you ?

@mcklayn: nice

During that period, definitely.

Some of his designs were pretty good, but the yellow Wolverine uniform and single shoulder chest strap for Cyclops were pretty aweful.

@selina_sublime: Unapologetically 90s yet you don’t like his designs for the X-Men at that time? Pft.

Anyway, those looks are so iconic that it took a long while before they changed outfits of everyone.

@hercuthor: X-Men #1 was my first as well and they still hold up for me. Can’t believe anybody who was a nineties freak wouldn’t at least, like these designs.

@marvelboy1974: Excellent examination of the costumes. Especially with interpretation Storm‘s costume colors. Something that doesn’t make sense that people only thought white.

zzzzz They were pretty great, even better than today's character designs.

@imbroken: Yes, my favorite era

Not really. I won’t detract from the iconic stature of them but even as a kid I never cared for the designs.