Stan Lee's immediate successor as writer of the X-Men, Roy Thomas, returns to the franchise in May to launch a new volume of X-Men Legends, Marvel's title in which classic X-Men creators tell tales set in their contemporary eras. In X-Men Leg🔯ends #1, Thomas teams up with a🧸rtist Dave Wachter to tell a Wolverine story set in the era of Logan's debut.
Though Wolverine's first appearance in was scripted by writer Len Wein, Thomas helped co-create the character as editor - a🐎nd now, he says he's getting a version of his longtime wish to be the one to write Wolverine's debut by returning to his earliest days.
"You could've knocked me over with one 🐟of the Angel's wing-feathers when editor Mark Basso invited me to scribe a two-part X-Men Legends story set back in the general period of the X-Men book during the period when I was originally writing it (as Stan's successor) in the latter 1960s," Thomas states in the announcement.
"After somജe thought, it occurred to me that what would really be fun would be to write a story that took place right after the crashing of Wolverine into the Marvel Universe in ‘1974’ - since, after conceiving the character in broad outline (and some specifics), I turned him over to the considerable writing skills of Len Wein," Thomas continues.
"But I have long kinda wished that I had scripted that story myself. Thꦜis is the closest I'm gonna get - so I'm having a ball with it! (Artwork's pretty great, too!)"
Thomas wrote Uncanny X-Men #20-44, as well as #55-64 and #66. The title then began to feature reprints of older X-Men stories from issues #67-93, at which point the team was revis﷽ed with a new roster and creative team in the legendary , featuring who else but Wolverine as a member of the n🤡ew team.
Writer Chris Claremont quickly became the title's writer, guiding it for almost 20 years thereafter. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Claremont himself will return to th♓e X-Men in another flashback limited series focusing on Gambit in his earliest ꦡdays with the X-Men.
X-Men Legends #1 goes on sale May 18 with covers from Kaare Andrews, Dan Jurgens, and Niko Henrichon. Stay tune𓆉d to Newsarama for ꩲMarvel's full May 2021 solicitations coming later this month.
X-Men Legends is a title built in a lab for new stories from some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best X-Men creators of all time.
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